Biography

Dr. Bilal Haq has served as the director for Marine Geosciences Programs at National Science Foundation since 1988. He received his Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees in marine geology from the University of Stockholm in Sweden. Before coming to NSF he carried out research at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts and Exxon Research Labs in Houston, Texas in several fields of Geosciences. He has participated in four Ocean Drilling expeditions in the Pacific, Indian and Southern Oceans, in the latter two as co-chief scientist. He has been an AAPG distinguished lecturer and a recipient of Francis Shepard medal for “excellence in marine geology”. He also received the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic medal and was elected a fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science in the year 2000. In 2004 he was awarded American Geophysical Union’s Ocean Sciences award for “outstanding and sustained contributions” to marine sciences. He has published extensively on a wide variety of topics, including sequence stratigraphy and global sea-level changes of the past, paleoclimatology, paleobiogeography, paleoceanography, natural gas hydrates, and global warming and its impacts on maritime economies. Dr. Haq has also held assignments with the World Bank and the White in Washington DC.