After a national search, Toby Garfield has been named director of the Romberg Tiburon Center (RTC) for Environmental Studies at San Francisco State University.
“In an era when the world is facing a range of critical environmental issues, I can’t think of a more exciting place to work than RTC,” Garfield said. “I am honored to lead the continuing development of the Bay Area’s principle marine and estuarine educational research facility.”
Dr. Garfield is a physical oceanographer whose main research interest is ocean current circulation along continental margins. Currently, he coordinates a program to monitor surface currents along the entire Northern California Coast, and within San Francisco Bay, using high frequency radio waves (www.cencoos.org/currents/index.html).
He also directs
his energy to local, state-wide, and national efforts to
establish a robust ocean observing network; he has served
as coordinator of California State University’s ocean
observing system (www.cicore.org),
is a board member of the NOAA’s regional association
that coordinates ocean observing activities in Northern
California (www.cencoos.org) for the Integrated Ocean Observing
System (www.ocean.us),
and has testified before congress in support of ocean observing.
Dr. Garfield is a native of Massachusetts. He moved to
California in 1989 to work as a research professor at the
Naval Postgraduate School, after earning his PhD in physical
oceanography from the University of Rhode Island. In 1998,
he accepted a position with the Department of Geosciences
at SFSU. Since 2006, he has served as acting director
of RTC. |
