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Scott Veirs : Curriculum Vitae

Education

1988-1992 Stanford University, B.S. Earth Systems

1995-1997 University of Washington, M.S. Oceanography

1999-2003 University of Washington, Ph.D. Oceanography

Publications

Bain, David, Scott Veirs, and Val Veirs. “Orca Hearing Weighted Decibels: Underwater Sound Measurements Appropriate to Studies of Orcinus (Killer Whales).” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 129, no. 4 (2011): 2607. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3588648.

Beneze, Erica L., Jason Wood, Scott Veirs, and Val Veirs. “Are Click Rates in Killer Whales an Indicator of Group Behavior and Foraging Hotspots?” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 129, no. 4 (2011): 2607. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3588650.

Holt, Marla M, Dawn P Noren, Val Veirs, Candice K Emmons, and Scott Veirs. “Speaking up: Killer Whales (Orcinus Orca) Increase Their Call Amplitude in Response to Vessel Noise.” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 125, no. 1 (2009): EL27. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3040028.

Holt, Marla, Val Veirs, and Scott Veirs. “Investigating Noise Effects on the Call Amplitude of Endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales (Orcinus Orca).” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 123, no. 5 (2008): 2985. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.2932512.

Mix, A.C., Rugh, W., Pisias, N.G., and Veirs, S. R. “Color Reflectance Spectroscopy: A Tool for Rapid Characterization of Deep-Sea Sediments.” Leg 138: Ocean Drilling Program, 1992.

Thomson, Richard E., Steven F. Mihaly, Alexander B. Rabinovich, Russell E. McDuff, Scott R. Veirs, and Frederick R. Stahr. “Constrained Circulation at Endeavour Ridge Facilitates Colonization by Vent Larvae.” Nature 424, no. July (2003): 545–49. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature01824.

Veirs, Scott R. “Heat FLux and Hydrography at a Submarine Volcano: Observations and Models of the Main Endeavour Vent FIeld in the Northeast Paciﬁc.” University of Washington, 2003.

Veirs, Scott R., Russell E Mcduff, Marvin D Lilley, and John R Delaney. “Locating Hydrothermal Vents by Detecting Buoyant, Advected Plumes.” Journal of Geophysical Research 104, no. B12 (1999): 29,239-29,247.

Veirs, Scott R., Russell E. McDuff, and Frederick R. Stahr. “Magnitude and Variance of Near-Bottom Horizontal Heat Flux at the Main Endeavour Hydrothermal Vent Field.” Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 7, no. 2 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1029/2005GC000952.

Veirs, Scott R., and Val R. Veirs. “Masking of Southern Resident Killer Whale Signals by Commercial Ship Noise.” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 129, no. 4 (2011): 2606. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3588646.

Veirs, Scott R., Val R. Veirs, and Jason D. Wood. “Killer Whale Scouting: Listen Live for Troops J, K, and L.” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 129, no. 4 (2011): 2538. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3588433.

Veirs, Scott, Val Veirs, and Jason D. Wood. “Spatial Confirmation of Vocal Communication between a Killer Whale Calf and Its Natal Family.” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 123, no. 5 (2008): 3362. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.2933958.

Veirs, Val, Scott Veirs, and Jason Wood. “Shipping Noise Signatures.” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 129, no. 4 (2011): 2368. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3587664.

Wood, Jason D., Peggy Foreman, Val Veirs, and Scott Veirs. “Shipping Noise and Vocal Compensation by Southern Resident Killer Whales: Haro Strait as a Study Case.” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 129, no. 4 (2011): 2607. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3588647.

Teaching

Aug '05 - present Program Coordinator and Professor, Beam Reach Marine Science and Sustainability School. Co-taught first program in fall 2005. Taught as part of instructional team during 2-4 weeks of each subsequent program, refined curriculum with other faculty, and supervised all course logistics including admissions, syllabus development, staff training, student orientation, and grading. Jun '03 - Aug '05 Program Coordinator, Beam Reach Marine Science and Sustainability School. Developed outcome-based curriculum for a 2-course, 18-quarter-credit, 10-week intensive marine science and sustainability field program. Spring '01 Instructor, University of Washington (UW) School of Oceanography. Created a 1-unit seminar on Instructional Technology in Oceanography and taught it to graduate students, post-docs, and faculty members. Sep '00 - Jun '01 Lead Teaching Assistant, UW School of Oceanography. First student to serve in this new position. Helped organize and facilitate the 1st and 2nd annual graduate teaching assistant orientation within the School. Developed successful proposal to institute an annual excellence in teaching award for graduate students serving as TAs or lecturers. Summer '96, '00 At-sea Instructor for REVEL, a UW School of Oceanography outreach program involving high school teachers in oceanographic research at the Juan de Fuca ridge, Northeast Pacific. Managed watches and mentored individual teachers and students at sea. Jan - Mar '00 Teaching Assistant, Introductory Oceanography lab, UW School of Oceanography. Conducted 3 labs/week of 30 students each. Provided motivational lecture and orientation. Designed and graded weekly homework. Attended all lectures. Sep - Dec '99
Mar - Jun '99 Laboratory lecturer, Introductory Oceanography, San Francisco State University. Re-designed 20-student lab course and field trips associated with large lecture class taught by Dr. Karen Grove. Created and graded exercises and reports, in both computer and geoscience laboratories. Devised demonstrations. Administered web site and on-line assessement system. Orchestrated 5 field trips/quarter, each 5 hours long, and one full-day cruise aboard the R/V Point Sur in Monterey Bay. Jul - Aug '99 2nd and 3rd Assistant Scientist, Sea Education Association, Woods Hole, MA. 2nd on WHOI bonding cruise C163A with Chief Scientist Gary Jaroslow. 3rd on C164 with Chief Scientist Lisa Graziano. Led watches, oversaw deployments, facilitated student research, delivered an afternoon short lecture (C164), and maintained cruise web pages. '99 - present Instructor and board member, Ocean Inquiry Project. Helped initiate and continue to volunteer for a Seattle-based non-profit that provides high school and community college students an opportunity to contribute to oceanographic research projects by collecting useful data during day-long cruises in Puget Sound. Developed curricula, taught science stations, acted as SCUBA diver on about half of the first 30 cruises. '96 - 2003 Outreach coodinator for the Exploraquarium, a UW School of Oceanography educational web site. Designed and administered site, developed content, and fielded average of one general oceanography question per week.

Employment

2003-Present President and Beam Reach Marine Science and Sustainability School

Aug '96
Blimp Observatory for Land Oceanography (BOLO) field assistant. Cascade Mountains, WA. Facilitated mapping of dunite channels in an alpine ophiolite outcrop with a blimp-mounted camera. See acknowledgements in 1999 article by Kelemen et al.

Aug - Dec '94
Genetics Photo Researcher, Videodiscovery, Inc., Seattle, WA. Acquired multimedia resources for an interactive high school genetics curriculum based on CDROM/laserdisc.

Jun - Sep '94
Satellite Oceanography Intern, (Dr. Chet Koblinsky), Graduate Student Summer Program in Earth System Sciences, NASA, Greenbelt, MD. Assessed the use of TOPEX/POSEIDON satellite radar altimetry in monitoring global submarine volcanic accitivity. Gained familiarity with the Interactive Data Language, Internet resources, and Fortran.

May '94
Seismology Field Assistant, (Dr. Marcia McNutt, MIT), Lake Mead, NV. Installed and monitored REF/TEK field seismometers and differential Global Positioning Systems during 2-week Basin And Range Geophysical Experiment. Assisted with air guns and hydrophone management aboard the barge.

Jul - Aug '93
Wilderness Emergency Medicine Trainee, SOLO, Conway, NH. Certified to provide pre-hospital care, especially with minimal equipment in remote areas.

Jan - Apr '93
Environmental Scientist, Syed Muhammad, Hooi dan Binnie consultants, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Investigated geology, water quality, and land use in the field. Researched and composed geological, meteorological, and land use chapters of environmental impact assessments. Interviewed representatives of relevant municipal and state government agencies.

Dec '92 - Jan '93
Radiosonde Meteorologist, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Western Equatorial Pacific. Launched weather balloons and operated radiosonde station during intensive observation period of the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment. Facilitated cross-cultural understanding and cooperation between NASA Doppler radar scientists and Chinese oceanographers, meteorologists, and crew.

Mar - Jun '91
Overseas Student and Forest Growth Model Intern (Dr. Carlos Prado), Universidad Católica, Santiago, Chile. Studied development issues at Stanford overseas campus. Surveyed a spectrum of modelling techniques.

Jun - Sep '89
Paleo-Oceanography Research Assistant (Dr. Alan Mix), Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR. Pioneered high-resolution scanning reflectance spectroscope for on-board analysis of deep-sea sediment core mineralogy.