Penny Chisholm
Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Department of Biology
MIT 48-419
15 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: (617) 253-1771
Fax: (617) 324-0336
Email: chisholm at mit dot edu
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Employment and Positions:
| 2006-2008 | Director, MIT Earth System Initiative (web.mit.edu/esi) |
| 2002-present | Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies |
| 1993-present | Joint Appointment, Department of Biology Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1976-present | Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Division of Water Resources & Environmental Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1988-1995 | MIT Director, MIT/Woods
Hole Joint Program in Oceanography and Oceanographic Engineering |
| 1978-present | Visiting Scientist, Biology Department Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| 1974-76 | Post-Doctoral Researcher, Biological Oceanography Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
Professional Societies:
American Society of Microbiology
American Geophysical Union
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
Phycological Society of America
The Oceanography Society
Ecological Society of America
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Sigma XI
Honors and Awards:
| 2005 | Huntsman Award for Excellence in Marine Science |
| 2004-present | Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Investigator in Marine Science |
| 2003 | Elected to the National Academy of Sciences |
| 2002-present | Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies (Endowed Chair) |
| 1995-2002 | McAfee Professor of Engineering (Endowed Chair) |
| 1998 | Resident Scholar, Bellagio Center, Italy |
| 1997-1998 | Guggenheim Fellow |
| 1996 | Elected Fellow, American Geophysical Union |
| 1993 | Elected Fellow, American Society of Microbiology |
| 1993 | Member, International Ecology Institute |
| 1992 | Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| 1991 | Rosenstiel Award in Ocean Sciences |
| 1980-1982 | Doherty Professor of Ocean Utilization |
| 1977-1978 | Edgerton Assistant Professor |
Selected Professional Activities:
Policy Board, DOE Joint Genome Institute, 2003-present
Board Member, World Wildlife Fund, 2004-2008
Board Member, Institute for Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY, 2003-present
Member, Science Advisory Board, Joint Genome Institute, DOE, 2000-present
Member, Joint Genome Institute Policy Board, 2003
Co-Organizer: ASLO Workshop on Ocean Fertilization for Carbon Sequestration,
2001
Co-Organizer: NSF Sponsored Workshop on Marine Microbial Genomics, 2000
Visiting Committee, Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
1999
Editorial Board, Environmental Microbiology, 1998-present
Board Member, Union of Concerned Scientists, 1996-2002
Subject Editor, Aquatic Microbiol Ecology, 1995-1999
Visiting Committee, Oceanography, Brookhaven National Laboratories, 1995-1998
U.S National Committee for SCOPE (NRC Board on Env. Science and Toxicology),
1993-1995
Editorial Board: Marine Ecology Progress Series, 1992-2000
Corporation Member, Bermuda Biological Station, 1992-1996
Editorial Board, Journal of Marine Molecular Biology & Biotechnology,
1991-1995
Editorial Board: Oceanus Magazine, 1991-1993
Committee on Molecular Marine Biology (National Research Council), 1991-1992
Organizer: ASLO Special Symposium: "What Regulates Areas of the Open
Sea?" Feb. 1991
Ocean Studies Board Member (National Research Council), 1990-1993
U.S. Joint Global Ocean Flux Study Steering Committee Member, 1989-1992
Teaching:
Undergraduate Subjects Taught:
Fundamentals
of Ecology (1.018J)
Introductory Biology (7.014)
Aquatic Chemistry and Biology Laboratory
Graduate Subjects Taught:
Aquatic Ecology
Seminars on topics in Biological Oceanography.
Research Interests:
General Areas: Biological oceanography, Global ecology, Ecological genomics.
Current Interests: Ecology, evolution, and comparative genomics of marine cyanobacteria and the viruses that infect them;
Iron and phytoplankton growth; Ocean fertility.