{"id":1815,"date":"2013-10-11T21:26:33","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T21:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=1815"},"modified":"2013-10-11T21:26:33","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T21:26:33","slug":"graham-shimmield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/graham-shimmield\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 83: Executve Director & President of the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Graham Shimmield"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show Information<\/h5>\n

Show:<\/strong>\u00a083
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0October 12
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Graham Shimmield
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Mark Gould (Sharky)
\nAssistant Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Graham Shimmield, executive director and president of the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences<\/a>, was born in Trinidad.\u00a0 Shimmield graduated from the University of Durham (England) in Geology in 1981, and received a Ph.D. in Marine Geochemistry from the University of Edinburgh in 1985. He was appointed to a tenured faculty position as Lecturer in Chemical Oceanography in 1984, and promoted to Reader in 1995. \u00a0In 1996, he became institution the Director of Scottish Association of Marine Science (SAMS) and the NERC-funded Institute, within the Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory (DML), a post he held for 12 years. \u00a0From 1997-2008 he helped create the new University of the Highlands and Islands, chairing the research program.\u00a0 Since March 2008, Shimmield has had the position of Executive Director and President of the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, USA. <\/b><\/p>\n

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TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods (left) welcomed Executive Director & President of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Graham Shimmield into the studio.<\/p><\/div>\n

Shimmields’s particular interest is in marine geochemistry, which includes the fundamental studies of geochemical processes operating in ancient oceans through identifying indicators of ocean and climate change (palaeoceanography), the biogeochemical cycling of modern oceans using naturally-occurring radioisotopes, and examining human impacts and contamination in coastal and deep seas.<\/p>\n

Since arriving in Maine, Graham is serving on the boards of the Maine Innovation Economy Advisory Board, Maine Space Grant and Maine Sea Grant, and advisory boards for Maine Maritime Academy and Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory.\u00a0\u00a0In Februray 2013, Graham was elected to the Board of Trustees for the Consortium for Ocean Leadership. In November 2011, Graham was named by MaineBiz as one of ten \u201cNexters\u201d helping to shape the future of Maine\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n

Graham and Stevoe discussed the importance of the Gulf of Maine and that it\u00a0is a significant economic driver for the state.\u00a0 \u201cThe Gulf of Maine is a wonderful, natural laboratory that is also being impacted by man and we have a number of scientists at Bigelow working on it,\u201d Shimmield said.<\/p>\n

Founded in 1974, Bigelow Laboratory is an independent, non-profit center for global ocean research, ocean science education, and technology transfer.\u00a0 The Laboratory is a recognized leader in Maine\u2019s emerging innovation economy, their research ranges from microbial oceanography to the large-scale processes that drive ocean systems and global environmental conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Executve Director and President of the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Graham Shimmield joined Steve Woods, host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe to talk about how Bigelow is a well-kept secret in Maine, yet it is exceptionally well known in the global-scientific community. The two also discussed the worldwide research Bigelow is conducting on the world\u2019s oceans and climate change. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}