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Peter Strutton

Centre Head, Oceans & Cryosphere/Professor

Oceans and Cryosphere

Orcid identifier0000-0002-2395-9471
  • Centre Head, Oceans & Cryosphere/Professor
    Oceans and Cryosphere
  • +61488 304 012 (Work)
  • Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Oceans and Cryosphere, 217B IMAS Hobart, Hobart CBD Campuses, TAS

BIO

Professor Pete Strutton is a biological oceanographer at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies. His field of research is the interaction between physical and biological processes in the ocean, and the consequences for ocean productivity and air-sea CO2 exchange. He has a PhD in Marine Science from the Flinders University of South Australia and has held positions at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Stony Brook University and Oregon State University before joining UTAS as an ARC Future Fellow in 2010. He is a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes.

Biography
Professor Pete Strutton received his Bachelor with Honours degree in Marine Science from Flinders University of South Australia in 1993 and PhD in Marine Science in 1998. He then left Australia to take up the positions of Postdoctoral Scientist and Research Associate with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California, which he held until 2002. From 2002-2004 he was Assistant Professor with the State University of New York's Marine Sciences Research Centre and from 2004-2010 he was Assistant, then Associate Professor at Oregon State University's College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences. In 2010 he returned to Australia on an ARC Future Fellowship and since 2020 he has been Professor at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania. From 2010 to 2015 he was one of two oceans editors for Geophysical Research Letters, the American Geophysical Union's flagship short-format journal. He has served as the director of the CSIRO-UTas joint PhD program in Quantitative Marine Science (2015 to 2022), a leader of the Biogeochemical Argo sub-facility of Australia's Integrated Marine Observing System (2012 to 2020), and he co-led the Biogeochemistry Task Team for the redesign of the Tropical Pacific Observing System (2014 to 2020).

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Professor
    University of Tasmania, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Hobart, Australia1 Aug 2020 - present
  • Associate Professor
    University of Tasmania, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Hobart, Australia1 May 2010 - 31 Jul 2020
  • Associate Professor
    Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States1 Jan 2009 - 30 Apr 2010
  • Assistant Professor
    Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States1 Jul 2004 - 31 Dec 2008
  • Assistant Professor
    Stony Brook University, Marine Science Research Center, Stony Brook, United States1 Jul 2002 - 30 Jun 2004
  • Research Associate
    Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, United States12 May 1997 - 30 Jun 2002

SCHOOL AND PORTFOLIO

  • Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies

UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

  • 14 Life Below Water

FIELD OF RESEARCH