Author: Peter A. Jumars

Peter A. Jumars is Professor Emeritus of Oceanography at the School of Marine Sciences and the Darling Marine Center of the University of Maine. He has also worked at the School of Oceanography at the University of Washington and as a program officer with the US Office of Naval Research. He is author of more than 140 journal articles and book chapters and one previous book, Concepts in Biological Oceanography: An Interdisciplinary Primer. His past elective offices include presidency of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography and chairmanship of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents.