William Curry (oceanographer)
William B. Curry is an American oceanographer who is the president and CEO of the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Studies (BIOS). He is known for studying historical climate and ocean circulation. Curry holds a Bachelor of Science in geology from the University of Delaware (1974) and a PhD in geology from Brown University (1980). Career. Curry was the director of the Ocean and Climate Change Institute (OCCI) at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) from 2001 to 2005 and then from 2007 until his departure in 2012. He also served as a senior scientist at the WHOI  Department of Geology and Geophysics since 1981 and chair of the department from 1995 to 1999. Curry studies the history of Earth's climate and carbon cycle using geological records of ocean chemistry and physical properties. He is actively involved with deep sea expeditions to collect deep sea sediments and uses the chemistry of fossils in the sediments to determine how climate has changed on decadal to millennial time scales.