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Dr. Anya Waite is a Canadian biological oceanographer working at the Ocean Frontier Institute at Dalhousie University.
Career
Anya Waite is a biological oceanographer who is currently Associate Vice-President Research (Ocean) at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada), and the Chief Executive Officer of the Ocean Frontier Institute.
She was previously Winthrop Professor at the University of Western Australia's Oceans Institute, the Section Head of Polar Biological Oceanography at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, and a professor of oceanography in the biology department at the University of Bremen. Throughout her time at the University of Western Australia, she was awarded the PCB Professional Development Scholarship.
Dr. Anya Waite is the first woman to co-chair the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS).
Dr. Waite is also featured on a digital poster as part of the Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation Women in STEM initiative that aim to make equity-deserving groups in STEM more visible, to promote careers for equity-deserving groups in STEM, to highlight issues of inequality, and to celebrate achievements and advocates.
Education
Waite earned a BSc in biology from Dalhousie and a PhD in biological oceanography from the University of British Columbia.
Selected publications
Waite, AM; Thompson, PA; Pesant, S; Feng, M; Beckley, LE; Domingues, CM; Gaughan, D (2007). "The Leeuwin Current and its eddies: An introductory overview". Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 54 (8–10): 789–96. Bibcode:2007DSRII..54..789W. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2006.12.008.
Raven, JA; Waite, AM (2004). "The evolution of silicification in diatoms: Inescapable sinking and sinking as escape?". New Phytologist. 162 (1): 45–61. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.2004.01022.x.
Waite, AM; Thompson, PA; Harrison, PJ (1992). "Does energy control the sinking rates of marine diatoms?". Limnology and Oceanography. 37 (3): 468–477. Bibcode:1992LimOc..37..468W. doi:10.4319/lo.1992.37.3.0468.