S. Bradley Moran

Dean of the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences and Professor of Oceanography at the University of Alaska Fairbanks

Dr. S. Bradley Moran is Dean of the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences and Professor of Oceanography at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Prior to his appointment as Dean, he served as Acting Director of the Obama Administration’s National Ocean Council, Assistant Director for Ocean Sciences in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Program Director in the Chemical Oceanography Program at the National Science Foundation, and Professor of Oceanography in the Graduate School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island. His principal research interests focus on the application of uranium-series and artificial radionuclides as tracers of marine geochemical processes and fostering economic development partnerships in energy and environmental research, technology, policy, and education. He currently serves as Vice President on the international Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research, and on the Board of Directors of the Alaska Ocean Observing System, the Alaska Sea Life Center, and the North Pacific Research Board, and previously served as Board Chair and Trustee of the Consortium for Ocean Leadership. He previously served on the Ocean Studies Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, and is a member of the U.S. National Committee for the Decade of Ocean Science and Sustainable Development. Dr. Moran received a B.Sc. in chemistry from Concordia University, a Ph.D. in oceanography from Dalhousie University, and conducted his postdoctoral research at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.