Steve Bohlen: President JOI Division, President's Office

Dr. Steve Bohlen is President of Joint Oceanographic Institutions, a consortium of 29 premier oceanographic research institutions that serves the U.S. scientific community through management of large-scale, global research programs in the fields of marine geology and geophysics and oceanography. Known for leadership of U.S. scientific ocean drilling and ocean observing initiatives, JOI has helped facilitate discovery and advance global understanding of the Earth and its oceans through effective systems engineering and program management.

Dr. Bohlen was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1974 and received a Ph.D. in geochemistry from the University of Michigan in 1979. After three years as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UCLA, he joined the faculty at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he was an Assistant and then tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences. His research focused on the chemical and physical evolution of the Earth’s continental lithosphere.

In 1988, Dr. Bohlen accepted a research position with the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, CA and held a joint appointment at Stanford University as a Consulting Professor. In 1995 he became the Associate Chief Geologist for Science at the USGS in Reston, VA, where he was responsible for the health and direction of the research programs of the Geologic Division including earthquake, volcano, and landslide hazard reduction programs, global seismographic network, energy and mineral resource assessment, climate change, ecosystems and coastal and marine geology programs.