Awards

AWARDS Class of 1964 Teaching Award, Georgia Tech, 2012 Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award, Georgia Tech, 2009 Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence, Georgia Tech, 2007 Regents Graduate Fellowship, University of California San Diego, 2000   NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL DISTINCTIONS Lead for the United Nations Ocean Decade Programme “Global Ecosystem for Ocean Solutions”, [6/2021-present] Founding Chairman of Ocean Visions, [8/2019-present] Founding Editor of Frontiers in Marine Science Ocean Solutions journal, [5/2019-present] Member of Future Earth Ocean Knowledge Action Network (KAN), [8/2017-present] Vice-chair, Science Board, North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES), [4/2017-12/2022, web] Chairman PICES Physical Oceanography and Climate Committee (POC), [1/2017-12/2022, web] Member US CLIVAR Science Steering Committee, [1/2017-1/2019, web] Co-chair US CLIVAR Phenomena, Observations, and Synthesis Panel, [1/2017-1/2019, web] Founding Director, Program in Ocean Science & Engineering, Georgia Tech, [10/2016-06/2022, web] Member PICES FUTURE Science Steering Committee, [1/2015-present, web] Chair PICES SG-SEES Social-Ecological-Environmental Systems, [10/2013-10/2015, web] Member CLIVAR ENSO Diversity WG, [01/2012-02/2015, web] Chair PICES-WG27 North Pacific Climate Variability & Change, [04/2011-10/2015, web] US delegate Advancing US-DPRK Relations through Science Engagement, [04/2012, web] Chair ICES-WKECOFOR Forecasting Ecosystem Indicators, [03/2012-03/2013, web] US representative PICES-COVE international advisory panel, [10/10/2009-2014, web] Member Steering Committee, NSF/NOAA CAMEO Program, [03/2009-03/2012, web] Member PICES-WG20 Evaluations of Climate Change Projections, [11/2005-2011, web] 

Research

Dr. Emanuele Di Lorenzo is a Professor in the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences at Brown University. Prior to that he was Professor and Director of the Ocean Science and Engineering program at Georgia Tech, which he co-founded in 2016. He is also Chairman and co-founder of Ocean Visions.  He received a Ph.D. in ocean and climate sciences from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 2003 and joined the faculty at Georgia Tech in 2004 and the Brown faculty in 2022. He is internationally recognized for his work and leadership in understanding ocean climate and its impact on marine ecosystems and coastal communities. More recently, Di Lorenzo efforts have focused on transforming research and knowledge generated in academia into equitable and practicable ocean-based solutions to climate by co-founding in 2019 the Ocean Visions and in 2022 the United Nations Ocean Decade Center on Ocean-Climate Solutions. Co-Founder, Program in Ocean Science & Engineering (OSE) Chairman, Ocean Visions (OV)

Research Keywords

OceanographyClimate DynamicsInverse and Ocean ModelingEcosystems and Climate ChangeOcean Solutions and Coastal Resilience