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Walker O. Smith,
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Virginia Institute Marine Sciences
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Walker Smith is
a Professor at the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences of
the College of William and Mary. He received his Ph.D. from
Duke University in 1976, working with Richard Barber, and conducted
his first cruise to the Antarctic in 1983 in the Ross Sea. He
has journeyed to the Antarctic some 24 times in his career,
and most of those cruises have focused on the oceanographic
effects on the growth, production and accumulation of phytoplankton.
In 1996-8 he codirected the US Southern Ocean JGOFS experiment,
which was the largest coordinated oceanographic project in history
in Antarctic waters. He recently completed IVARS, an assessment
of the interannual variations in net community production in
the Ross Sea, and remains active in oceanographic research in
the Ross Sea.
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