History and Organization of JIMAR

History

The Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (JIMAR) was created in 1977 by an agreement between the Environmental Research Laboratories (ERL) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Univeristy of Hawai‘i (UH). JIMAR is one of 13 Joint/Cooperative Institutes under NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR). JIMAR was established to pursue the common research interests of NOAA and the UH in oceanic, atmospheric, and geophysical research. Major areas of research in JIMAR include climate and global change, equatorial oceanography, tsunamis, and fisheries oceanography. Since 1988 JIMAR has been part of the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST). Download the JIMAR Cooperative Agreement Proposal (PDF) submitted to NOAA in December, 2000 for the period July 1, 2001 to June 30, 2006. (In 2006, this Cooperative Agreement was continued through June 30, 2009.)

JIMAR offices are located on the UH Manoa Campus in the Marine Sciences Building (MSB) and the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics (HIG) of SOEST.

Organization

The JIMAR Council consists of seven Senior Fellows, including the Director, three other members of the University faculty and three ERL staff members. The Council is responsible for the selection of JIMAR invited scientist and post-doctoral fellows.

The Administrative Board consists of:

President, University of Hawaii, Chairman
Senior Vice-President for Research, University of Hawaii
Dean, School of Ocean and Earth Sciences and Technology
Director, Environmental Research Laboratories
Director, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
A representative at large, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Director, Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, ex officio

You can browse a list of JIMAR’s current Senior Fellows and Council Members.

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