Craig E. Dorman, 48, a physical oceanographer with more than 20 years of administrative and field experience in the U.S. Navy, has been named the sixth Director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, succeeding Dr. John H. Steele, who has served in the position since October 1977. The Board of Trustees voted January 5, 1989 to appoint Dr. Dorman upon the recommendation of an Institution Advisory Committee and a Trustee Search Committee. Dr. Dorman, who recently retired from the U.S. Navy, assumed his new position February 1, 1989.

WHOI Names Sixth Director. 1989. Oceanography 2(1):45.

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