Ocean Leadership is currently accepting nominations for speakers for the 2011-2012 Distinguished Lecturer Series.  We encourage you to nominate excellent lecturers who can speak to broad audiences about the IODP and their resulting research.

Participation of researchers in the Ocean Leadership Distinguished Lecturer Series is essential to the program’s goal of bringing scientific results and discoveries to the geoscience community. If you or someone you know would be interested in becoming a Distinguished Lecturer for the 2011-2012 academic year, please complete the nomination form by June 1, 2010.

Distinguished Lecturer Specifications:

• Six Distinguished Lecturers are chosen for each academic year.  Notifications will be made in Summer 2011.
• Each Distinguished Lecturer is required to give 6 lectures during the 2011-2012 academic year.  Due to the popularity of the program, many lecturers, however, have agreed to give more.
• The lecture topic should focus on results of ODP or IODP research. Synthesis lectures on broad topics associated with IODP's scientific objectives (environmental change, processes, and effects; climate change; deep biosphere and the subseafloor ocean; and solid Earth cycles and geodynamics) are strongly encouraged.
• Lectures should be aimed at a broad geoscience audiences consisting primarily of graduate and undergraduate students and the scientifically literate public.
• Ocean Leadership will fund the speaker's transportation expenses to and from each institution; host institutions will provide housing, meals, and local transportation for the speaker.
• After completion of the required lectures, Ocean Leadership will provide a small honorarium for the speaker's participation.

Questions?  Please contact Charna Meth.