Hal Maring works at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC as the Program Manager for NASA’s Radiation Sciences Program. Previously Hal was part of the faculty of Marine and Atmospheric Chemistry at the University of Miami, from 1993 to 2005. Hal received his B.S. (1977) from the University of Michigan, and his Ph.D (1985) from the University of Rhode Island in Oceanography. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology from 1985 through 1987 and then was a Marine Research Scientist at the University of Rhode Island from 1988 through 1992.