[LTER-mcm-pi] Fwd: [ANSWER from US-SCAR] NSF/PLR: New Antarctic Sciences staff member -- Please post on ANSWER

[Peter Doran]

Fritsen?!

Awesome!!

On 7/15/2015 6:26 AM, Michael Gooseff wrote:
> Hi all
>
> You probably saw this announcement. Chris is here in DC already and 
> his first full day at NSF is today. He did his coi training yesterday 
> with Diane. Chuck will be leaving NSF at the end of the month so the 
> two of them will run the AOE panel together next week.
>
> There seems to be some optimism regarding Lisa's replacement at AISS, 
> but no real news.
>
> I had a good chat with Saran yesterday and we discussed the situation 
> of a new AISS program manager so close to our renewal. We all hope 
> that the chosen candidate will be familiar with LTER, but if they are 
> not, it will be in our collective interests (including Saran's) to 
> orient them quickly.
>
> Cheers
> Mike
>
> Typed by clumsy fingers on a small virtual keyboard. Please excuse typos.
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> *From:* US-SCAR ANSWER mailing list <answer at usscar.org 
>> <mailto:answer at usscar.org>>
>> *Date:* July 15, 2015 at 05:35:30 EDT
>> *To:* "answer at usscar.org <mailto:answer at usscar.org>" 
>> <answer at usscar.org <mailto:answer at usscar.org>>
>> *Subject:* *[ANSWER from US-SCAR] NSF/PLR: New Antarctic Sciences 
>> staff member -- Please post on ANSWER*
>> *Reply-To:* "answer at usscar.org <mailto:answer at usscar.org>" 
>> <answer at usscar.org <mailto:answer at usscar.org>>
>>
>> ****************************************
>>
>> *Subject:  Dr. Christian Fritsen appointed Program Director for 
>> Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems*
>>
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>> I am pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Christian Fritsen as 
>> Program Director for the Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems Program 
>> in the Antarctic Sciences Section of the Division of Polar Programs. 
>> Dr. Fritsen is a Research Professor in the Division of Earth and 
>> Ecosystem Sciences at the Desert Research Institute (DRI). He also 
>> served as DRI’s Vice President for Academic and Faculty Affairs, is a 
>> member of the graduate faculty in Hydrology and Environmental 
>> sciences at the University of Nevada, Reno, and has served as 
>> Director of both the Nevada Space Grant Consortium and Nevada NASA 
>> Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research.
>>
>> Chris earned his Bachelor’s degree from Montana State University in 
>> 1990 and Ph.D. in the biological sciences with an emphasis in 
>> oceanography from the University of Southern California in 1996. His 
>> interest in marine biology and oceanography dates from his childhood 
>> when he spent time fly fishing the rivers of Montana and reading 
>> about the oceans and its inhabitants in books, such as /Shark Stories/.
>>
>> Dr. Fritsen’s leadership of algal and systems ecology research has 
>> spanned more than 15 years.  His systems ecology perspective has 
>> included studies on organismal survival and growth as well as energy 
>> transfer and material cycling processes in a range of polar habitats 
>> (e.g. frozen lakes, glaciers, snow, sea ice, subglacial lakes) as 
>> well as habitats in the Great Basin of Nevada.
>>
>> His first research in Antarctica entailed work from a floating ice 
>> station for several months. Along with U.S. and Russian colleagues, 
>> Chris conducted biological, chemical and physical oceanographic 
>> studies of the western Weddell Sea. His broad polar ecosystem 
>> interests continued to develop during subsequent research in the 
>> McMurdo Dry Valleys and through interdisciplinary research along the 
>> western Antarctic Peninsula. These diverse activities led to an 
>> interest in serving the polar research community.
>>
>> Please join me in welcoming Dr. Fritsen to the Division of Polar 
>> Programs and the GEO team.  Chris began serving on an intermittent 
>> basis on 15 June and so has been coming up to speed. He will begin a 
>> full-time appointment as a rotator on 14 July.
>>
>> Scott Borg
>>
>> Head, Antarctic Sciences
>>
>> NSF/GEO/PLR
>>
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