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Jody Deming is a Professor Emeritus and oceanographer known for her exploration of the limits of microbial life in Arctic Ocean sea-ice cover and the ecological roles of microbes in cold environments. She is the Karl M. Banse Endowed Professor at the University of Washington and directed the Marine Bioremediation Program, which led to the establishment of the Marine Molecular Biotechnology Laboratory, now known as the Center for Environmental Genomics. She contributed significantly to the nation's graduate training program in Astrobiology and served on the U.S. Polar Research Board during the International Polar Year from 2007 to 2009. She chaired the International Arctic Polynya Program from 2000 to 2012 and was a member of the U.S. Ocean Sciences Board's Deepwater Horizon Committee under the National Research Council. Additionally, she currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, a new open-access journal in the Ocean Science domain. Her contributions to science have been recognized by her election to the American Academy of Microbiology and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and she holds the Walters Endowed Professorship.
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