William Aron

Affiliate Professor, School of Marine Affairs (retired)
waron@u.washington.edu

Education

B.S., Brooklyn College, 1952
M.S., 1957, and Ph.D., 1960, University of Washington

Specialties

• Marine science policy development
• Research administration
• Midwater sampling
• Ecology of the North Pacific
• Ecosystem changes caused by human activities
• Management of living marine resources
• National and international science bureaucracies
• The role of the legislative and executive branches of government in marine science activities

Additional Background

• Director, Office of Marine Mammals and Endangered Species, National Marine Fisheries Service, 1978-80
• Director, Office of Ecology and Environmental Conservation, NOAA, 1971-78
• Director, 1969-71, and Deputy Head, 1967-69, Oceanography and Limnology Prog., Smithsonian Inst.
• Head, Biological Oceanography Group, General Motors Defense Research Lab., 1961-67
• Research Assistant Professor, Department of Oceanography, UW, 1956-61

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