David Siegel, UCSB Professor of Geography, has been appointed as Director of the Institute for Computational Earth System Science, effective July 1, 2002.

Dr. Siegel received both a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Science, and a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from the University of California, San Diego in 1982. He received a Master of Science (1986), and a Ph.D. (1988) in Geological Sciences, from the University of Southern California. He joined UCSB as Assistant Professor in 1990 and rose to the level of Professor in 1998, and has held appointments in the Department of Geography and the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management. In addition, he has served as an Adjunct Scientist at the Bermuda Biological Station for Research since 1992. Professor Siegel is an oceanographer with over 70 peer-reviewed publications to his credit. Thanks to the members of the search committee and its Chair, Keith Clarke, for their efforts in this search. Dr. Siegel is an excellent and enthusiastic leader. We wish him and his colleagues in this enterprise all success.