David Divins: Director, Ocean Drilling

Tel: (202) 787-1617
Email: ddivins@oceanleadership.org

Dr. Divins joined JOI in January of 2006 as the Associate Director for Ocean Drilling Programs. David comes to JOI from NOAA’s National Geophysical Data Center in Boulder Colorado, where he was a member of the Marine Geology and Geophysics Division from 2000-2005. Before joining NGDC, David was a Research Scientist at the University of Colorado Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science from 1991-2000. At NGDC, David was involved in bathymetric mapping activities and marine data management. Prior to his departure from NGDC, David was the lead for a team generating bathy/topo models for use in NOAA’s tsunami inundation mapping efforts.

Bathymetric modeling and mapping have always been of interest to David, who is active on several international bathymetric mapping projects of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO), serving on or advising to the editorial boards for several International Bathymetric Chart projects. He is also a scientific advisor to the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) program.

David received his B.A. from Boston University in 1981 and his Ph.D. in Oceanography from Texas A&M University in 1991. While at A&M, David was involved in many activities of the Ocean Drilling Program, including sailing on Leg 126 and working in the data management group. Between his undergraduate and graduate years David worked at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics collecting and processing multichannel seismic data.