Published: June 18, 2015
DianeMcKnight

EVEN Professor Diane McKnight  joined ‎NSF‬'s Arctic Sciences Section as program director co-managing the Arctic System Science (ARCSS) Program.

Diane McKnight became a program director in Polar's Arctic Sciences section on June 15, joining Neil Swanberg in managing the Arctic System Science (ARCSS) Program.

McKnight holds an appointment as a Fellow of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research. She also served as founding director of the Center for Water, Earth Science and Technology. 
She has conducted research on stream ecosystems as part of the McMurdo Dry Valleys Long-Term Ecological Research (MCM-LTER) project and on alpine lakes and acid mine drainage streams in the Rocky Mountains. She has been President of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography and was the founding editor of Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences. She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012 and was awarded the John Dalton Medal from the European Geophysical Union in 2015.