Aquatic Science Society Honors UMaine Oceanographer for Distinguished Service
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ORONO — Peter Jumars, the director of the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences, has received the Distinguished Service Award from the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography.
ASLO, a leading professional organization for researchers and educators in the field of aquatic science, recognized Jumars for his nearly 30 years of dedicated service to the society and its public education and outreach mission.
Jumars, a professor of marine sciences and oceanography, is a past president of the ASLO board of directors. He has been a leading figure in the development of the society’s publications, most notably its research journal, Limnology and Oceanography, for which he served as editor-in-chief from 1986 to 1992. More recently he has been the journal’s associate editor for scholarly reviews and the chair of a committee on open-access publishing.
In 1994, Jumars received ASLO’s G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award for his “outstanding work in biological oceanography, particularly for his significant advances in understanding interactions among benthic organisms, sediments and the physical environment.