Doug Wilson is a Physical Oceanographer, Principal Investigator and Director of the
UVI Ocean Glider Laboratory, and Courtesy Research Assistant Professor in the UVI
College of Science and Mathematics. He has been conducting regional research in the
Caribbean since 1991, using gliders since 2018. He was an Oceanographer with the US
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration from 1982-2012. He was the founding
co-chair of IOCARIBE-GOOS, the GOOS Regional Alliance for the Caribbean and Adjacent
Regions, and is the lead for IOCARIBE on the UN Decade of Ocean Science Tropical Americas
Observing and Forecasting System Project. In addition to serving on the UG2 Steering
Committee, he is a member of GOOS OceanGliders STORMS Task Team.
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