Jacqueline is Research Professor and a biological oceanographer at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.  Dr. Grebmeier earned a Bachelor of Arts in Zoology from the University of California, Davis in 1977 and went on to receive Masters Degrees in Biology from Stanford University in 1978, and in Marine Affairs from the University of Washington in 1983, specializing in applications of Arctic science to Arctic policy.  Dr. Grebmeier earned a Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1987.  She has played a leadership role in coordinating and promoting national and international arctic research. She is the U.S. delegate to, and a vice-president of the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), a current member of the U.S. Polar Research Board of the National Academies, and served formerly as a Commissioner of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission following appointment by President Clinton.  She has contributed to other coordinated international and national science planning efforts including service on the steering committee for U.S. efforts during International Polar Year. Over the last thirty years she has participated in over 45 oceanographic expeditions on both US and foreign vessels, many as Chief Scientist, and she was the overall project lead scientist for the U.S. Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions project, which was one of the largest U.S. funded global change studies undertaken in the Arctic. Her research includes studies of pelagic-benthic coupling in marine systems, benthic carbon cycling, benthic faunal population structure, and polar ecosystem health. She has published approximately 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers and has also served as editor of several books and journal special issues.  Her research is focused on understanding of how arctic marine ecosystems respond to environmental change, particularly efforts to illuminate the importance of benthic biological systems. Dr. Grebmeier is collaborating with Dr. Cooper (MARCH 2014). KCAW INTERVIEW