Dr. Cornelius Wayne Sullivan has been a tenured professor of biological sciences at the University of Southern California College of Letters, Arts and Sciences since 1974.
PACIFIC PALISADES, CA, May 07, 2019 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Cornelius Wayne Sullivan, PhD, with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Dr. Sullivan celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Dr. Sullivan has been a tenured professor of biological sciences at the University of Southern California College of Letters, Arts and Sciences since 1974. Named the first director of the marine biology research section of the department in 1981, he served for nine years before becoming director of the Allan Hancock College Foundation and Institute for Marine and Coastal Studies from 1990 to 1993. He then spent another four years in Washington, DC, as the director of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Office of Polar Programs and as the director of the U.S. Antarctic Research Program. While with the NSF, Dr. Sullivan led efforts to gain congressional support of $150 million to rebuild the South Pole station and helped in obtaining use of U.S. Navy nuclear submarines for scientific explorations of the Arctic seas. From 1997 to 2005, he also served as vice provost for research at the university. Dr. Sullivan notably trained 11 Ph.D. students and has mentored eight postdoctoral scholars during his career and spent time as a visiting professor at the University Colorado Boulder and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
A former chief scientist and cruise coordinator of Antarctic Marine Ecosystem Research at the Ice Edge Zone Project, Dr. Sullivan was also a member of the BIOMASS Working Party on Pack-Ice Zone Studies. He served on the committee on Antarctic Research and the scientific committee on oceanic research. Furthermore, Dr. Sullivan chaired the committee that evaluated polar research platforms and served on the board of directors and as a member of the council of government relations for the Alfred E. Mann Institute of Biomedical Engineering. He is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is a fellow and former vice chairman of the California Council of Science and Technology (CCST).
Dr. Sullivan's research interests have focused on life and ocean sciences. His extensive polar research experiences have centered on understanding the structure and function of ice-covered ocean ecosystems, particularly the relationships between biological and geophysical features of the Southern Ocean at scales that range from the microscopic to global. Dr. Sullivan has led more than a dozen scientific expeditions to the Antarctic and Arctic Oceans, including a six-year multidisciplinary research program (AMERIEZ) in the Weddell Sea to investigate the influence of seasonal changes and sea ice dynamics on ecosystem structure and function.
As a result of his research, Dr. Sullivan has contributed more than 150 articles to various peer reviewed and professional journals. He also served on the editorial board of the Journal of Microbiological Methods and Polar Biology. He holds a patent in heat sensitive bacterial alkaline phosphatase.
The recipient of an Antarctic Service Medal of the U.S. from the NSF in 1981, Dr. Sullivan has also been cited in close to 20 editions of Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Education, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, and Who's Who in the West. He has held a Bachelor of Science in biochemistry since 1965 and a Master of Science in microbiology since 1967 from Pennsylvania State University. He soon after completed a Doctor of Philosophy in marine biology at the University of California, San Diego, in 1971 and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography from 1971 to 1974.
Dr. Sullivan was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. He later married his wife Jill Hajjar in 1966. He has three children and four grandchildren. In his free time, he loves to fish.
In recognition of outstanding contributions to his profession and the Marquis Who's Who community, Cornelius Wayne Sullivan, PhD, has been featured on the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement website. Please visit www.ltachievers.com for more information about this honor.
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