Deborah Bronk

Deborah Ann Bronk is an American oceanographer and the president and CEO of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.

[1] She held a professorship at the University of Georgia between 1994 and 2000, and at the College of William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science between 2000 and 2018.

[10] Her research interests lie in the ways that nitrogen controls the growth of the microscopic organisms at the base of ocean food webs.

Her work also extends into the processing of nitrogen within wastewater treatment plants[1] Bronk has also held two positions with the National Science Foundation.

Between 2008 and 2014, Bronk served as the president of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography,[7] and she was named a sustaining fellow of the organization in 2015.