Distinguished Professor
Texas A&M University
Worth Nowlin is Distinguished Professor of Oceanography at Texas A&M University and a part time IPA to the National Data Buoy Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He has served on many scientific advisory and management panels for ONR, NASA, NSF, NOAA, NRC, AMS, AGU and various UN agencies.
He currently is a Councilor to the Texas A&M Research Foundation, chair of the U.S. GOOS Steering Committee, and a member of the Management Committee of the World meteorological Organization-Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Joint Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, Admiral in the Texas Navy, recipient of the Antarctic Service Medal of the U.S.A. and recipient of a Certificate of Appreciation from the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO for his contributions to work on climate and the oceans and development of the Global Ocean Observing System. He chairs the provisional Advisory Board for the developing Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System (GCOOS).
His research interests focus primarily on meso- to large-scale ocean property distributions and circulation (particularly in the Gulf of Mexico and Southern Ocean), shelf circulation, long-term and systematic ocean observations, and research planning and management. He has been principal or co-principal investigator on more than 80 sponsored projects. He has directed 31 graduate student committees and supported 17 postdoctoral scholars. He has more than 60 referred publications and numerous abstracts and reports.