User:Atower123/Kevin Arrigo

Kevin Arrigo is a Professor at Stanford University. He also is a member of Bio-X and conducts a broad array of research.

Background and Education

Kevin Arrigo obtained a Bs in Natural Resources from the University of Michigan in 1983. He then obtained a Pd.D in Biological Sciences from the University of Southern California in 1992. He then served at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center as a postdoctoral civil servant. He became an Assistant Professor of Geophysics at Stanford University in 1999. In 2007 he switched to the Department of Environmental Earth System Science, where he served as the director of an interdisciplinary Graduate Program from 2005-2013. He became the director of the Earth systems Program in 2012. Arrigo has also served on a number of Stanford University committees, including those regarding Academic Computing and Information Services (2010-2012), the Review of Undergraduate Majors (2010-2013), and an Overseas Faculty Oversight Committee (2011-).

Research

Kevin Arrigo works as a biological oceanographer, usually examining the role of marine microalgae in modulating the cycles of carbon and nitrogen. He also specifically works with the scales of temporal and spatial variability of the biological productivity seen in polar waters. He uses this information to help understand how both anthropogenic and atmospheric conditions control the biological flux of carbon dioxide into the oceans and sediments. Much of Arrigo's research is interdisciplinary and combines approaches in satellite remote sensing, ecophysiological modelling and laboratory and field studies. He uses this work to address a number of aspects of marine biogeochemistry at spatial and temporal scales not possible using approaches from a single discipline.

Honours and Awards


 * Antarctic Service Medal, National Science Foundation, 1988-1989
 * Global Change Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship, US Department of Energy, 1992-1994
 * Performance Award, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 1995
 * Frederick E. Terman Fellowship Award, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University, 1999-2002
 * Chair, Gordon Research Conference on Polar Marine Science, Gordon Research Conference, 2007
 * Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowship, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, 2009
 * Gerhard Caspar University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, Stanford University, 2011-2016
 * Group Achievement Award for ICESCAPE, NASA, 2012
 * Donald and Donald M. Steel Professor in Earth Sciences, Stanford University, 2013-

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