page_title: Susan Avery
section_title: Service on boards and committees
hierarchical_section_title: Susan Avery / Service on boards and committees
caption_attribution_description: English: Eric Turkington (left) with former MBL President and Director Gary Borisy and WHOI President and Director Susan Avery. Photo credit: Shelley Dawicki, NEFSC/NOAA
context_page_description: Susan K. Avery is an American atmospheric physicist and President Emerita of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, where she led the marine science and engineering research organization from 2008–2015. She was the ninth president and director and the first woman to hold the leadership role at WHOI. She is Professor Emerita at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she served on the faculty from 1982–2008. While at UCB she also served in various administrative positions, including director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, a 550-member collaborative institute between UCB and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; and interim positions as vice chancellor for research and dean of the graduate school, and provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs. Currently she is a senior fellow at the Consortium for Ocean Leadership in Washington, D.C.
context_section_description: She has served on many national and international boards, committees, commissions, and program review committees, and is active in professional societies.  Her current service includes the UN Science Advisory Board; the National Research Council Global Change Research Program Advisory Committee; the NOAA Science Advisory Board; the NASA Science Advisory Committee; the National Park Service Advisory Committee, and the Leadership Alliance External Advisory Board.  She is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Meteorological Society, for which she also served as president. She is also a member of the American Geophysical Union and the Marine Technology Society.  Currently she is a senior fellow with the Consortium for Ocean Leadership.  Awards and recognition include an honorary degree from University of Massachusetts; charter membership of the National Associate Program in the National Academy of Sciences; the Stearns Award from the University of Colorado for exceptional achievement; and an Alumni Achievement Award and Distinguished Ogura Lectureship in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Illinois.
  In 2017 she was elected to the board of ExxonMobil.
caption: Eric Turkington with former MBL President and Director Gary Borisy and Susan Avery at the dedication of the statue of Rachel Carson.
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