Dr. David Porter joins OPP as permanent program director for Antarctic Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Dr. Porter holds a Ph.D. in atmospheric and oceanic science from the University of Colorado – Boulder and a bachelor of science in meteorology from Rutgers University. Before joining the U.S. National Science Foundation as an IPA, Dr. Porter was a research scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, where he studied how the atmosphere and ocean drive changes in the ice sheets, and how the resulting changing sea level affects coastal communities near and far. Dave has flown aerogeophysical surveys with NASA Operation IceBridge, the British Antarctic Survey, and aboard LC-130s with the ROSETTA-Ice project (including air-launching ocean profilers in the Ross Sea). He has sailed on the RVIB Nathanial B. Palmer to the remote East Antarctic coast and worked with local fishers and hunters in Greenland to collect ongoing temperature profiles in remote glacial fjords.
While at NSF, Dr. Porter has been managing AOAS and co-leading the OPP Postdoctoral Research Fellowship program, sitting on multiple cross-GEO working groups such as P4CLIMATE, and liaising with domestic and international Antarctic partners.