Professional Experience
George
A. Maul earned a B.S. (with honors) in Marine Transportation from the State
University of New York Maritime College at Fort Schuyler and was granted a
U.S. Merchant Marine Officer's license in 1960; in 1974 he was awarded the
Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography from the University of Miami's Rosenstiel
School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.
From 1960–1969, he held
ranks from Ensign to Lieutenant Commander as a commissioned officer in the
U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and from 1969–1994, he was an oceanographer
with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Since 1994 he is
Professor of Oceanography and Head of the Department of Marine and
Environmental Systems at Florida Tech. Dr. Maul served two terms as
Vice Chairman of the Subcommission for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions of
the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, is past Chairman
IOCARIBE Group of Experts on Ocean Processes and Climate, Chairman of the
IOCARIBE Tsunami Steering Group of Experts, founded the IOCARIBE sea level
component of GLOSS, and chaired the United Nations
Environment Programme/IOC Joint Task Team on Climatic Changes in the Wider
Caribbean Region. He serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Earth
System Science Education, Marine Geodesy, and Remote Sensing of Environment,
and was Co-Director of INSMAP '86, '90, '94, and '98, the International
Symposia on Marine Positioning. Professor Maul is a Fellow of the
Marine Technology Society, a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society,
and a member of the American Geophysical Union, Omicron Delta Kappa
(National Leadership Honor Society), Sigma Xi (Scientific Research Society),
and the Florida Academy of Sciences.
