C. Mark Eakin
NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, 325 Broadway, E/GC Boulder, CO 80302
303.497.6172 Tel    303.497.6513 Fax     mark.eakin@noaa.gov

PERSONAL DATA

Marital Status: Married, one son.
Date of birth: 3 Dec. 1958
Health: Excellent
Citizenship: USA

RECENT POSITIONS

2000-date National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Geophysical Data Center. Position: Supervisory Physical Scientist, ZP-4. Duties: Chief, NOAA Paleoclimatology Program and Director, World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, Boulder

1998-00 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Global Programs. Position: Oceanographer, GS-14. Duties: Program Manager, Climate Dynamics and Experimental Prediction Program

1992-98 NOAA, Office of Global Programs. Position: Oceanographer, GS-13. Duties: Project Officer, Marine Ecosystem Response and Paleoclimatology Programs

1995-date University of Maryland. Position: Special Member, Graduate Faculty

1994-date University of Maryland, Marine, Estuarine, Environmental Sciences Graduate Program. Position: Participating Faculty Member

EDUCATION

1991-92 John A. Knauss/Sea Grant Marine Policy Fellow at NOAA, Office of Global Programs Served as Project Officer, Marine Ecosystem Response and Paleoclimatology Programs

1984-91 Ph.D. Biological Oceanography, University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Major Professor: Peter W. Glynn.

Dissertation: The damselfish-algal lawn symbiosis and its influence on the bioerosion of an El Niño impacted coral reef, Uva Island, Pacific Panama

1980-84 M.S. Biological Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Emphasis: Marine Ecology, Major Professor: Ralph M. Adams.

Thesis: Population distribution and homing behavior in the false limpet, Siphonaria pectinata

1978-80 B.S. Biological Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Emphasis: Marine Biology

1976-78 University of Louisville, Major: Zoology

FIELD RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

1986-98 Scientist, Investigations of the long-term ecological consequences of the 1982-83 El Niño. 9 cruises, R/V Benjamin and R/V Urraca and other vessels, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama (Ch.Sci. P.W. Glynn)

1992 Scientist, assistant cruise organizer, S/V Mt. Mitchell cruise to ROPME Sea Area following the 1991 Gulf War Oil Spill, Leg V (coral ecosystem investigations) (Chief Scientist S. Earle)

1992 Scientist, Coral bioerosion in the Florida Keys Reef Tract, National Undersea Research Center-Univ. of North Carolina, Wilmington, Key Largo Florida Center (P.I. M. Reaka-Kudla)

1989 Co-Principal Investigator, Investigations of refinery impact on coral reef communities near Lago Oil and Transport Company, Aruba (with Dr. P.W. Glynn)

1985-88 Research Assistant/Divemaster/Scientist, Investigations of sound-production and reproductive behavior of damselfish/Microhabitat selection in juvenile damselfishes. 4 cruises, R/V Calanus, Univ. of Miami, FL (Ch.Sci. A Myrberg)

1987 Scientist/Divemaster, Marine biological impact study of Lago Oil refinery site, Aruba (PIs: Drs. G.L. Voss, P.W. Glynn)

RESEARCH POSITIONS

1985-90 Research Assistant, Effects of the 1982-83 El Niño event on tropical, eastern Pacific coral reefs: disturbances, causes, recovery and retrospective analyses (PI: Dr. P.W. Glynn, Univ. of Miami)

1987 Research Assistant, Condition of coral reef cnidarians from Biscayne National Park reef tract: pesticides, heavy metals and histopathological examination, for USNPS (PIs: Drs. P.W. Glynn, A. Szmant, Univ. of Miami)

1987 Research Assistant, Development of a damselfish model for neurofibromatosis; early life history and age-growth analysis (PI: Dr. M.C. Schmale, Univ. of Miami)

1984 Research Assistant, Black Creek Canal impact assessment, Biscayne Natl. Park, USNPS (PI: Dr. A. Szmant, Univ. of Miami)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1998 El Niño Online Workshop for Educators, one of 5 Keynote speakers working in an interactive web-based environment, University of Southern California (www.coexploration.org/elnino)

1997 Tropical Marine Ecosystem and Resource Management , graduate course, University of Maryland

1996 Evolutionary Ecology of Coral Reef Communities, graduate course, University of Maryland

1992-date Guest Lecturer, Coral Reef Ecology, Marine Ecology courses, University of Maryland

1986 Marine Biology Instructor & Underwater Habitat Leader, Marine Resources Development Center, Key Largo, FL

1985-86 Teaching Assistant, Tropical Marine Ecology, Univ. of Miami (Prof. P.W. Glynn)

1984 Adjunct Faculty: Zoology Lecture and Labs, Broward Community College, Pompano Beach, FL

1984 Instructor, Biological use of Microcomputers, Fl. Atl. Univ.

1981-84 Teaching Assistant, Principles of Genetics (Prof. R.M. Adams, Fl. Atl. Univ.)

1981 Teaching Assistant, Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy (Prof. W.R. Courtenay, Fl. Atl. Univ.)

1981-83 Adjunct Faculty, Zoology and Biology Laboratories, Palm Beach Junior College, Boca Raton, FL

GRADUATE STUDENT COMMITTEE SERVICE

1995 Lillian Becker, Univ. of Maryland, Undergraduate Honors Program

1994-95 Melody Chen, Univ. of Maryland, Undergraduate Honors Program

1993 Tracy Ward, Univ. of Maryland, Undergraduate Honors Program

1992-94 Sheila McKenna, Univ. of Maryland, Ph.D.

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

2001 A tale of two ENSO events: Carbonate budgets and the influence of two warming events and intervening variability, Uva Island, Panama. Eakin, C.M. Bulletin of Marine Science, 69(1): 171-186

1999 The NOAA-OGP El Niño-Southern Oscillation Web Site: Information served and lessons learned. Eakin, C.M.Water International, 24 (2): 147-150

1997 Coral reef status around the world: where are we and where do we go from here? Eakin, C.M., McManus, J.W., Spalding, M.D., Jameson, S.C. Proc. 8th International Coral Reef Symposium, 1:277-282

1996 Where have all the carbonates gone? A model comparison of calcium carbonate budgets before and after the 1982-1983 El Niño. Eakin, C.M. Coral Reefs 15(2): 109-119

1994 Reef coral reproduction in the eastern Pacific: Costa Rica, Panamá and Galápagos Islands (Ecuador). II. Poritidae. Glynn, P.W., Colley, S.B., Eakin, Smith, D.B., C.M., Cortés, J., Gassman, N.J., Guzmán, H.M., Del Rosario, J.B., Feingold, J.S. Marine Biology 118:191-208

1992 Post-El Niño panamanian reefs: less accretion, more erosion and damselfish protection. Eakin, C.M. Proc. 7th Intl. Coral Reef Symp. 1:387-396

1991 Reef coral reproduction in the eastern Pacific: Costa Rica, Panama and Ecuador, part 1 - Pocilloporidae. Glynn, P.W., Gassman, N.J., Eakin, C.M., Cortés, J., Smith, D.B., Guzmán, H.M. Marine Biology 109:355-368

1988 Avoidance of damselfish lawns by the sea urchin Diadema mexicanum at Uva Island, Panama. Proc. Sixth Intl. Coral Reef Symp. 2:21-26

1987 Damselfishes and their algal lawns: a case of plural mutualism. Symbiosis 4:275-288.

MANUSCRIPTS IN REVIEW OR PREPARATION

in revision Parasitism and castration of the sea urchin Diadema mexicanum by the gastropod Echineulima thanuumi (Prosobranchia, Eulimidae). Eakin, C.M. Dis. Aquat. Org. Accepted with revision.

in prep. Homing behavior in the false limpet, Siphonaria pectinata, (L.) (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Eakin, C.M. Mar. Behav. Physiol.

in prep. Early life history and growth of the bicolor damselfish, Pomacentrus partitus. Clarke, M., Schmale, M., Eakin, C.M. Submitted to Fishery Bulletin

in prep. Decreases in growth of the coral Platygyra daedalea, for the year of the Gulf War. Eakin, C.M., Chen, M.A., Reaka-Kudla, M.L. planned for Mar. Poll. Bull.

in prep. Impacts of an oil refinery on the community and growth of reef corals, Aruba, N.A. Eakin, C.M., Feingold, J.S., Glynn, P.W. planned for Mar. Poll. Bull.

in prep. Extreme tidal exposures, cool upwelling and coral mortality in the eastern Pacific (Panama). Eakin, C.M., Smith. D.B., Glynn, P.W.

OTHER REPORTS, ABSTRACTS AND PUBLICATIONS

2001 Making sure that the world’s palaeodata do not get buried: International efforts are keeping information accessible. Nature, Alverson, K. and Eakin C.M. 412: 269.

2001 Global Climate Change and Coral Reefs, ICRI Regional Workshop for East Asia, 2-4 April 2001, in press

2001 Science considers solar variability. Boulder Daily Camera. August 20, 2001.

2001 Paleoclimatic Data: High Resolution Data for High Resolution Studies. Eakin, C.M., Woodhouse, C.A., Anderson, D.M. ICSU International Geosphere-Biosphere Program Open Science Conference, Amsterdam.

2000 Seeing the Global Oceans from the Reefs. Reef Encounter, Eakin, C.M, Evans, M.N.. 28:18-20

2000 Paleoenvironmental data available from the NOAA Paleoclimatology Program. Eastern Pacific Oceanography Conference. Anderson, D. M., Eakin, C. M., and Woodhouse, C.

2000 The Ice Core Data Gateway - Ice Core Data Access via the World Wide Web" Fall AGU / EOS, V. 81. Bauer, D.M., Scambos, T.A., Eakin, C.M. and Anderson, D.M.

2000 New Ice Core Data Gateway. Fall AGU / EOS, v. 81, F. 598. Eakin, C. M., Anderson, D. M., Bauer, R. J., Scharfen, G. R., and Scambos, T. A.

1996 Low tidal exposures and reef mortalities in the eastern Pacific. Coral Reefs. 15:120. Eakin, C.M. and Glynn, P.W.

1995 The United States Coral Reef Initiative: An Overview of the First Steps. Guest Editorial in Coral Reefs, Crosby, M.P., Drake, S.F, Eakin, C.M., Fanning, N.B., Paterson, A., Taylor, P.R., Wilson, J. 14(1):1-3

1995 The NOAA Paleoclimatology Program: Past Keys to Future Climates. Proceedings of the Marine Technology Society Conference MTS 94. Eakin, C.M., Webb, R.S., Overpeck, J.T., Anderson, D.M. 1994

1995 MER - U.S.GLOBEC: Marine Ecosystems and Climate Change. Proceedings of the Marine Technology Society Conference MTS 94. Eakin, C.M., Peterson, W.T. 1994

1993 Growth and bioerosion of coral in the ROPME Sea Area following the 1991 Gulf Oil Spill. Scientific Workshop on Results of the R/V Mt. Mitchell Cruise. Regional Organization for Protection of the Marine Environment, Kuwait. Eakin, C.M., Reaka-Kudla, M.L., Chen, M.A.

1993 Distribution and community structure of scleractinian corals in Qatar, Bahrain, eastern Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait - Collections and surveys of the Mt. Mitchell Cruise, May 1992. Scientific Workshop on Results of the R/V Mt. Mitchell Cruise. Regional Organization for Protection of the Marine Environment, Kuwait. Fadlallah, Y.H., Eakin, C.M., Allen, K.W, Estudillo, R.A., Rahim, S.A., Reaka-Kudla, M.L.

1993 Oil refinery impacts on coral reef communities in Aruba, N.A. Global Aspects of Coral Reefs: Health, Hazards and History. C. Mark Eakin, Joshua S. Feingold and Peter W. Glynn. 1993

1992 The 1982-83 El Niño: impacts on eastern Pacific reef carbonate budgets and implications for severe bleaching disturbances. Pac. Sci. 46:377. Abs.

1991 The damselfish-algal lawn symbiosis and its influence on the bioerosion of an El Niño impacted coral reef, Uva Island, Pacific Panama. Ph.D. dissertation, Univ. of Miami, Miami, 158p.

1990 Investigations of refinery impact on coral reef communities near Lago Oil and Transport Company, Aruba: third report. Eakin, C.M. & Feingold, J.S. Environmental report to Lago Oil and Transport Co.

1989 Microhabitat selection in juveniles of the damselfishes Pomacentrus planifrons and P. partitus. Assoc. Mar. Labs. Carib. Proc. 22:35-36. Abs.

1989 Extreme tidal exposures, cool upwelling and coral mortality in the eastern Pacific (Panama). Eakin, C.M., Smith. D.B., Glynn, P.W., D'Croz, L.D., Gil, J. Assoc. Mar. Labs. Carib. Proc. 22:suppl. Abs.

1988 Age of recruitment of bicolor damselfish (Pomacentrus partitus) to reefs in southern Florida. Clarke, M.E., Eakin, M., Dowd, C. & Schmale, M. ELHS/Poster no.68, mimeo. ICES 1988

1988 Investigations of refinery impact on coral reef communities near Lago Oil and Transport Co., Aruba: second report. Eakin, C.M. & Feingold, J.S. Environmental report to Lago Oil and Transport Co.

1987 Coral reef investigations. Glynn, P.W., Eakin, C.M. & Feingold, J.S. In: Voss, G.L., Marine biological impact study of Lago Oil and Transport Company refinery site and Oil and Transport Co.

1984 Population distribution and homing behavior in the false limpet, Siphonaria pectinata, (Mollusca, Gastropoda). M.S. thesis, Florida Atlantic Univ., Boca Raton, 114p.

PRESENTATIONS

2001 Invited talk: Global Climate Change and Coral Reefs. Invited Global Perspective Plenary, ICRI Regional Workshop For East Asia., Cebu, Philippines.

2000 Annual Records of Tropical Systems (ARTS). 9th Intl. Coral Reef Symp., Bali. Eakin, C.M., Dunbar, R.E., Cole, J.E.

2000 A Test of Post-Bleaching Recovery Using Coral Fragments as Seedlings. 9th Intl. Coral Reef Symp., Bali.

1999 Water Information on the World Wide Web: Climate Data and the El Niño Deluge. American Water Resource Association

1997 Coral Paleoclimatology: How has the Earth’s Climate Changed? Coral Cores May Tell the Tale". Poster display, International Year of the Reef Press Briefing, National Press Club, Benway, H. and Eakin, C.M.

1996 Coral reef status around the world: where are we and where do we go from here? Eakin, C.M., McManus, J.W., Spalding, M.D., Jameson, S.C., 8th International Coral Reef Symposium, Panama

1996 Where have all the carbonates gone? A model comparison of calcium carbonate budgets before and after the 1982-1983 El Niño. Eakin, C.M., 8th International Coral Reef Symposium, Panama

1996 Invited talk: Climate impacts on Reefs: Hungry Sea Urchins and Shifting Budgets. American Association for the Advancement of Science, AMSIE ’96. (February)

1996 Invited talk: The NOAA Paleoclimatology Program: Past Keys to Future Climates. Marine Technology Society Conference MTS 94.

1993 Presenter or participant in 4 presentations on the Assessment of coral reef ecosystems in the western ROPME Sea Area following the 1991 Gulf War Oil Spill. Mt. Mitchell Expedition Workshop, Kuwait, 24-28 January 1993

1992 U.S.-French Cooperative Research on Coral Reef Ecosystems. Twelfth Joint Session of U.S.-France Cooperative Programs in Oceanography, Washington, DC

1992 Post-El Niño panamanian reefs: less accretion, more erosion and damselfish protection. Eakin, C.M., 7th Intl. Coral Reef Symp., Guam

1992 Invited lecture: El Niño, coral mortality, damselfish and sea urchins: how climate can influence coral reef frameworks. Univ. of Maryland Zoology Dept. Lecture Series, College Park, MD

1991 Invited lecture: Coral bleaching: the problem and the science agenda. Univ. of Colorado, INSTAAR, Boulder, CO

1991 The 1982-83 El Niño: impacts on eastern Pacific reef carbonate budgets and implications for severe bleaching disturbances. XVII Pac. Sci. Congr., Honolulu

1989 Microhabitat selection in juveniles of the damselfishes Pomacentrus planifrons and P. partitus. Assoc. Mar. Labs. Carib. 22nd Mtg. La Parguera, Puerto Rico

1988 Avoidance of damselfish lawns by the sea urchin Diadema mexicanum at Uva Island, Panama. Sixth Intl. Coral Reef Symposium, Townsville, Australia

1987 Damselfishes and their algal lawns: a case of plural mutualism. First Eilat Symposium on Marine Symbioses, Eilat, Israel

WORKSHOPS CONVENED, SESSIONS CHAIRED

2000 9th Intl. Coral Reef Symp., Bali, co-chair: Proxy Records of Climate in Coral Skeletons

1999 American Water Resource Association, Session Chair: Climate Information on the Web

1999 American Water Resource Association, Symposium on Water Resources and the World Wide Web (planning committee)

1998 GCIP Mississippi River Climate Conference , Session chair: The Influence of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation on the Mississippi River Basin

1996 US-Japan Workshop on Climate Change and Coral Reefs, Scientific Workshop, Tsukuba, Japan, March 1996 (organizing committee)

1992 US-French Cooperative Research on Coral Reef Ecosystems, Scientific Planning Workshop, Baltimore, MD (co-convener)

NEWS INTERVIEWS AND BRIEFINGS

1999 Expert Panelist: Global Climate Change, NPR’s Diane Rehm Show (Feb. 4)

1998 Invited Briefing: The 1997-98 El Niño and potential impacts on food supplies, Bread for the World

1998 El Niño, Climate and Coral Reefs, Talk Radio Malaysia (live)

1997 Invited Briefing: The Developing 1997-98 El Niño, National Public Radio

1997 El Niño, Climate and Severe Storms, CNN Live and CNN International

HONORS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

1999 NOAA Bronze Medal

1993 NOAA Commendable Performance Award

1991 John A. Knauss / Sea Grant Marine Policy Fellowship, National Sea Grant Program

1988 Reitmeister Foundation Fellowship, Univ. of Miami

1987 Rowlands Foundation Fellowship, Univ. of Miami

1986 Intl. Oceanographic Foundation, Jean Davis Scholarship, Univ. of Miami

1983 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Florida Atlantic Univ.

1981 Boca Raton Garden Club Scholarship, Florida Atlantic Univ.

1980 College of Science Faculty Commendation, Florida Atlantic Univ.

1977 Phi Eta Sigma Freshman Honor Society, Univ. of Louisville

BIOGRAPHICAL LISTINGS

1993 Who's Who in America

1992 Who's Who in Environmental and Energy Management

1992 Who's Who in Science and Engineering

1991 Who's Who in the South and Southwest

1981 Outstanding Young Men of America

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Earth & Sky Radio Series, Science Advisor

Scientific Reviewer

Science Magazine

Coral Reefs

Ecology Letters

Marine Pollution Bulletin

J. of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecol.

Marine Technology Society Journal

Proc. 7th International Coral Reef Symp.

Misc. publications

U.S. Dept. of Energy Climate Change Prediction Program, Panel

National Undersea Research Center-Wilmington, Review Panel (3 panels)

Caribbean Marine Research Center, Review Panel

NOAA Climate and Global Change Research Program, Reviewer

National Sea Grant College Programs, Reviewer

NESDIS Ocean Remote Sensing Programs, Scientific Reviewer

NOAA Office of Global Programs Climate Change Data and Detection Prgm., Reviewer

National Undersea Research Program, Reviewer

National Science Foundation/Lower Atmosphere Research Section,

Committee of Visitors

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

International Society for Reef Studies

American Geophysical Union

Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

ADDITIONAL TRAINING and CERTIFICATIONS

1997 Conflict Resolution and Confrontation Skills

1996 Filemaker Pro Relational Workshop

1988-date Amateur Radio License, Technician-Plus Class

1985-93 RSMAS Research Diver, Certified Research Diver-D (130'),

Nitrox open-circuit SCUBA, Computer Diving

1986-89 NOAA Working Diver Certification

1979-86 American Heart Assoc. CPR Instructor

1976-80 Scuba Instructor (PADI, SSI Advanced Open Water, SSI Underwater Photography)

FEDERAL, INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEES AND ORGANIZATIONS

2001-date NOAA Coral Reef Information System (CoRIS) Committee

1996-date Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network, Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (2000-date as Chair)

1999-00 NOAA High Performance Computing Study Team

1995-97 NOAA Coastal GOOS Task Force

1995-97 NOAA Sustainable Coastal Ecosystems Strategic Planning Team

1994-97 U.S. Coral Reef Initiative, Co-Chair, Interagency Research, Assessment and Monitoring Task Group

1993-97 NOAA Coral Reef Initiative Task Force, Chair, Research and Monitoring Committee

1991-93 Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences, Working Groups on Ecological System Dynamics and Earth System History

UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES AND ORGANIZATIONS

1985-91 Academic Diving Committee, Univ. of Miami

1985-89 Marine Biology and Fisheries Academic Committee, Univ. of Miami

1982-83 University Student Advisory Committee, Florida Atlantic Univ.

1981-83 College of Science Student Advisory Comm., Florida Atlantic Univ. (Chair 1982-83)

1981-83 President, Graduate Biology Club, Florida Atlantic Univ.

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

2000-date Den Leader, Cub Scout Pack 82, Louisville, MD

1998-00 Den Leader, Cub Scout Pack 11, Germantown, MD

1999-00 Worship Team leader, Trinity United Methodist Church, Germantown, MD

1994-97 Elder, Warner Memorial Presbyterian Church (USA) of Kensington, MD

1989-91 Elder, First Presbyterian Church (USA) of Hollywood, FL

1981-84 Deacon, First Presbyterian Church (USA) of Boca Raton, FL

1978-81 Treasurer and Board Member, Circle K Service Club, Florida Atlantic Univ.

REFERENCES: Upon request.