Linda E. Duguay, Ph.D.
Phone: (213) 821 - 1335
FAX: (213) 740 - 5936
E-mail: duguay@usc.edu
Dr. Linda Duguay is the Director of the University of Southern California (USC) Sea Grant Program, Associate Director of the Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies at USC, as well as Executive Director of the Tyler Prize for Excellence in Environmental Achievement administered by USC. She also served as Chair of the Environmental Studies Program at USC from September 2000 to September 2002 and is an Associate Research Professor in the Marine Biology Section of the Biology Department in the College of Letters Arts and Sciences (LAS), having received her AB in Biology from the University of Rhode Island (URI) and her MS and Ph.D in Biological Oceanography from the University of Miami (UM), Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences.
Dr. Duguay has held research faculty positions at the Marine Sciences Research Center of the State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNYSB) and at the Center for Environmental Sciences of the University of Maryland (UMD), and has also held teaching positions at Southampton College of Long Island University (LIU) and St. Marys College, Maryland. Dr. Duguay served as a program manager at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the Biological Oceanography Program and the Office of Polar Programs in both the Antarctic and Arctic Sciences Programs.
Dr. Duguays research interests are in plankton ecology of ctenophores, algal invertebrate symbioses, and benthic ecology with a focus on disturbance in dredge material sites. She served two terms as the Biological Oceanography Section secretary of the Ocean Sciences (OS) section of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), co-chaired the AGU/ASLO Ocean Sciences meeting in 1998, 2000 and 2002 and is currently on the OS section leadership team and chairs the nominations committee. She also serves on the meetings committee of the American Society of Limnology (ASLO). She is Treasurer of the Sea Grant Association and chairs the Urban Coast Theme Team.
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