Robert A. Weller received his Ph.D. in 1978 from Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He is the Director of the Cooperative Institute for Climate and Ocean Research at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), and has worked at WHOI since 1979. His research focuses on atmospheric forcing (wind stress and buoyancy flux), surface waves on the upper ocean, prediction of upper ocean variability, and the ocean's role in climate. He has served as the Secretary of the Navy Chair in Oceanography. He has been on multiple mooring deployment cruises and has practical experience with ocean observation instruments. Dr. Weller has served on several NRC committees over the years, including the recent Committee to Review the U.S. Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan and the Committee on Implementation of a Seafloor Observatory Network for Oceanographic Research; he was also a member of the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate and the NRC Committee on Utilization of Environmental