Dr. Neal Driscoll: Biography

Dr. Neal Driscoll is currently a Professor of Geology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He received a B.S. in Science from the University of New Hampshire in Durham. He then worked at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution as a Research Assistant from 1981 to 1983 and was awarded a Master's of Science from the Graduate School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island. Dr. Driscoll then received a Master's of Philosophy from Columbia University in 1989 and a Ph.D. in 1992. In 1991 he received the Bruce Heezen Award at Lamont in recognition of excellence in research and academia. As an Associate Researcher, he was awarded Lamont's Storke-Doherty Lectureship in 1994 in recognition of outstanding young scientists. He was the Storke Doherty lecturer at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory from 1992 to 1995. Dr. Driscoll joined Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution as an Assistant Scientist in 1995, at which time he was awarded the Office of Naval Research's Young Investigator Award. He was promoted to Associate Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1999 before joining Scripps as an Associate Professor in 2000.   At Scripps, he has continued his research on landscape and seascape evolution. Dr. Driscoll spends three to four months a year at sea acquiring images of the seafloor and subsurface layers to understand the processes that shape the earth. He was promoted to full Professor in 2002 and received the SIO Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2003.