Meet Phillip Taylor

ESA is delighted to receive a pledge and challenge gift of $100,000 from long-time ESA member, Phillip Taylor.

Phillip Taylor (left) with Henry Gholz

Phillip is a marine ecologist and recently retired as the Associate Dean for Research Advancement, at the University of Southern California’s Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. For 23 years, Phillip served as Head of the Ocean Section in the National Science Foundation’s Geosciences Directorate, and the Director of the NSF’s Biological Oceanography Program. Phillip has worked with the ocean science community, and other Federal Agencies, to build national and international ocean and environmental sciences research programs on ocean ecosystems, climate change, harmful algal blooms, ocean acidification, marine biotechnology and sustainability. Phillip is a marine ecologist with his doctorate from the University of California, Irvine; his master’s from the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; and his bachelor’s from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He also serves on the board of directors the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO).