Jerry Melillo, Co-Director of the Ecosystems Center of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole Massachusetts, has been nominated by President Clinton to fill the position of Associate Director for Environment at the Office of Science and Technology Policy for one year.
Dr. Melillo has been a research scientist at the MBL’s Ecosystems Center for 20 years.
He is internationally recognized for his research on nutrient cyclingin terrestrial ecosystems and the potential effects of global climate change on function and structure of land ecosystems.
An investigator with the Harvard Forest LTER site, he currently is the Vice Chairman of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program, a non-governmental program of several thousand scientists who are working in a coordinated Way to study global change.
He also is a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Works closely with various panels of the National Research Council, and is the author of more than 100 articles and books on natural ecosystems.