Art Miller Representing Alumni in Academia at SIO Chair, SIO Alumni Network Leadership Team Member Communications Network Executive Committee

Art Miller earned a PhD in 1986. Presently, as a Research Oceanographer and the Associate Director of SIO's Climate Research Division, he studies the oceanic influences on climate variability using a combination of computer simulation models and observational analysis.

Growing up in Ohio, Art attributes a high school teacher with sparking his initial interest in environmental science. Art and his science teacher formed an environmental research group that surveyed the chemistry and microbial life of dozens of lakes, rivers, and even the Atlantic Ocean. As an undergraduate at the Florida Institute of Technology, he majored in physical oceanography while enjoying SCUBA adventures to Florida's natural springs and the Atlantic's balmy waters.

Arriving at SIO in 1980, Art, studied large-scale Rossby waves structures and forcing mechanisms and earned a PhD in 1986. Subsequently, he moved across the street to postdoc in the Climate Research Group, where he investigated climate predictability and mid-latitude coupled ocean-atmosphere interactions.

Art's research interests led him to investigate decadal climate variability of the Pacific and in 1988 was appointed Assistant Research Oceanographer.

Over the last ten years, Art has been teaming up with biological oceanographers and mentoring students in a quest to better understand the role of physical oceanographic changes upon oceanic ecosystems.