Emmett Duffy

Dr. Emmett Duffy is Founding Director and Chief Scientist of the Smithsonian Institution’s Marine Global Earth Observatory (MarineGEO), a global network of partners that collaborate to understand ecosystems on the edge—coastal ecosystems under pressure. We study how they work so we can keep them working in a changing world. Duffy has been a leader for two decades in the science of marine biodiversity and ecology, serving on the steering committee of the Global Ocean Observing System’s Biology and Ecosystems panel, as co-lead of the writing team for the U.S. National Ocean Biodiversity Strategy. He is an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow, a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America, recipient of Japan’s inaugural Kobe Prize in Marine Biology in 2011, and author of “Ocean Ecology. Marine life in the age of humans” (2021, Princeton University Press).