Steve Bohlen has served science and society as a prominent researcher, professor, senior manager in the US Federal and CA State governments, CEO of a systems engineering and naval architecture firm, and currently a member of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Steve leads E-Program in the Global Security Directorate; E-Program advances energy technologies and energy security.

A graduate of the Dartmouth College, Steve earned a Ph.D. in geochemistry from The University of Michigan in 1979. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA, he became a tenured professor at Stony Brook University. From1995 through 2000, Steve was Associate Chief Geologist for Science at the US Geological Survey. He was responsible for the scientific priorities and funding of the broad portfolio of USGS research, including the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction, Climate Change, Global Energy, and Minerals Resource programs. As President and CEO of Joint Oceanographic Institutions from 2000-2008, Steve led the global effort in scientific ocean drilling and the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program and the systems engineering and deployment of the US National Science Foundation’s Ocean Observatories.

With a deep understanding of how the Earth works, Steve writes and speaks about future challenges and risk assessment of energy, climate, water, and food on a small planet. His 25 years of research on the evolution and stabilization of continental crust is widely cited, and he is among a select group in ISI’s Web of Science of Highly Cited Researchers in the field of Geoscience (atmosphere, ocean, and solid Earth).

Specialties: Organizational leadership and strategic realignment, international program leadership and management, systems engineering and integration, strategic planning, large program development,leadership development and coaching, risk assessment, Earth resources and hazards.