Dr. Steven F. DiMarco is a Professor in the Department of Oceanography and the Department of Ocean Engineering and is Ocean Observing Team Lead in the Geochemical and Environmental Research Group at Texas A&M University. He was elected Fellow of the Marine Technology Society (MTS) in 2020. His research specializes in the interactions of physical and biogeochemical processes of the coastal and deep ocean. He has served as Chief Scientist on 37 oceanographic cruises. He has served as a Plank Owner Member (2010-2017) of the National Science Foundation University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) Ocean Observing Science Committee (OOSC); he also served on the National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Committee to Advance the Understanding of the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current (2017). He currently is Principal Investigator the Texas Automated Buoy System (TABS), a real-time ocean observing network in the western Gulf of Mexico, which includes moored, shipboard, hi-frequency radar, and autonomous vehicles (principally funded by the Texas General Land Office - Oil Spill Division). From 2003-2018, he led a large group of Principal investigators from seven institutions that investigated the processes that lead to and sustain the hypoxic region of the northern Gulf of Mexico (http://mchatlas.tamu.edu; NOAA-funded). From 2007-2014, he led a research group investigating the circulation characteristics of the northwestern Indian Ocean and Sea of Oman (funded through the Sultanate of Oman). He was Co-PI and Executive Committee Member of the Gulf Integrated Spill Research Consortium funded by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative. DiMarco received his PhD from the University of Texas at Dallas (Physics, 1991).