New director of GI named

August 25, 2011

University Relations

Vice Chancellor for Research Mark Myers announced that Robert McCoy has accepted the position of director of the Geophysical Institute, with a planned start date of early October.

McCoy has more than 15 years of research administrative experience at the Office of Naval Research. He is currently technical director for the Operationally Responsive Space Office and  team leader for the Space Science Team for the Office of Naval Research.

McCoy received an AB in physics from Cornell University in 1974, MS in physics from Texas A&M in 1976 and a PhD in astro-geophysics from the University of Colorado in 1981. McCoy is the author on more than 60 publications in scientific and technical journals.  In 1998 McCoy received the NRL 75th Anniversary Innovator Award and has received the Alan Berman Publication Award in 1994, 2001, NRL Group Achievement Award 1983 and the NASA Group Achievement Award in 2004.