Biography
President, Geo Prose
Ellen Kappel, president of Geo Prose, received a Bachelor of Arts degree in geology from Cornell University (1980) and a PhD in marine geology and geophysics from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University (1985). Ellen has been on more than a dozen research cruises in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to study mid-ocean ridge tectonics and assist in deploying deep-towed side-scan sonars and camera systems. After postdoctoral work, Ellen moved to Washington, D.C., as a program manager with the Ocean Drilling Program at Joint Oceanographic Institutions. She became passionate about program management, assisting the community to get the best science done and communicating the results to a broad audience. In 1999, Ellen established Geo Prose, where she works with community members in academia and government to produce compelling documents that make the case for funding major geoscience programs. Ellen is also editor of Oceanography magazine.
As a member of the EAS Advisory Council, I hope to provide students with more opportunities to intern at environmental NGOs in Washington, D.C., and help EAS achieve a more diverse population in its undergraduate majors.