David Packard Distinguished Lecturers

The David Packard Distinguished Lecture series, inaugurated in 2000, brings eminent ocean researchers to MBARI to educate our staff on exciting developments in marine science and technology, and forge closer ties with the top oceanographers in all fields. Our past Distinguished Lecturers include:

Prior to 2022

Bo Barker Jørgensen, Aarhus University, Denmark

Cryptic cycles and power laws in the anaerobic seabed bioreactor

2018

Antje Boetius, Alfred Wegener Institute

The future of the Arctic Ocean: scientific and technological challenges in the 4-D exploration of ice-covered deep seas

2014

James R. McFarlane, International Submarine Engineering, Ltd.

Genesis and metamorphosis of underwater work capability

2013

Dana Yoerger, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

Technology for scientific deep-sea exploration: Where have we been, where are we now, and where are we going?

2012

Carl Wunsch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Climate and sea level change

2011

Farooq Azam, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

The Microbial Sea Around Us

2009

Donald Kennedy, Stanford University and Science Magazine

What’s Happening to Science?

2007

Russ Davis, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Autonomous components of the ocean observing system

2006

Arthur B. Baggeroer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sonars, acoustics, and oceanography, or oceanography, acoustics, and sonar?

2004

David Karl, University of Hawaii

Microbial Oceanography: Its scope, challenges, and opportunities

2005

Fred Spiess, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Geodesy in the Service of Marine Geophysics

2003

Sallie W. Chisholm, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Prochlorococcus: A window into the photosynthetic machinery of the oceans

2002

Melbourne G. Briscoe, Office of Naval Research

Science, Technology, and People

2002

James P. Kennett, University of California, Santa Barbara

Methane hydrate reservoir instability: Implications for marine geology and climate change

2001