Richard W. Murray

Richard W. Murray (Rick Murray), a geologist and oceanographer, is the Deputy Director and Vice President for Research at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Murray was previously a professor of earth and environment at Boston University (1992-2019), where he served as Chair of the Department of Earth Sciences (2000-2005), and Director of Boston University's Marine Program (2006-2009).

Murray also served as Director of the Division of Ocean Sciences at the National Science Foundation (2015-2018). He was co-chair of the Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology for the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President under the Obama and Trump administrations. He is an elected Fellow of the Geological Society of America. Provided by Wikipedia