Kevin Arrigo in Raja Ampat

The Donald & Donald M. Steel Professor in Earth Sciences and a Bass Fellow in Undergraduate Education, Kevin Arrigo is a biological oceanographer whose principal interest has been in the role marine organisms play in modulating the cycling of carbon within the oceans and atmosphere. He considers this knowledge essential to understanding how marine ecosystems are likely to respond to global climate change. Arrigo helped found the Bing Overseas Studies program in Australia in 2003 and has been teaching Coral Reef Ecology on Heron Island in the Great Barrier Reef for the last 20 years as part of that program.  

On this program he will be presenting lectures describing the biology and ecology of coral reefs, the paradox of their vast biodiversity and productivity, their importance to other ocean ecosystems and to humans, and some of the threats that they face.

Positions at Stanford

• Professor, Department of Earth System Science, 2009–present

• Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Earth System Science, 2007–2009

• Associate Professor, Department of Geophysics, 2004–2007

• Assistant Professor, Department of Geophysics, 1999–2004

Honors, Awards, Scholarships, and Fellowships

• Bass Fellow in Undergraduate Education, 2021–Present

• Donald & Donald M. Steel Professor in Earth Sciences, 2013–present

• Gerhard Casper University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, 2011–2021

• NASA Group Achievement Award for ICESCAPE, 2012

• Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowship, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, 2009

• School of Earth Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award, 2008

• Elected Chair, Gordon Research Conference on Polar Marine Science, 2007

 Education

• B.S. Natural Resources, 1983, University of Michigan

• Ph.D. Biology, 1992, University of Southern California