GLIN==> Welcome Dr. John Bratton, new Deputy Director of NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory

John Bratton, Ph.D., is the new Deputy Director of NOAA’s Great Lakes 
Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL), Ann Arbor, MI, effective 
February 7, 2011. “We are extremely pleased to have Dr. Bratton join the 
GLERL leadership team, where he can bring his considerable expertise to 
help GLERL address the complex issues facing the Great Lakes,” said 
Marie Colton, Ph.D., Director, NOAA GLERL.

An environmental geologist, Bratton studies coastal sediments and 
groundwater. For the last 13 years Bratton worked as a research 
scientist with the Coastal and Marine Geology Program of the U.S. 
Geological Survey in Woods Hole, MA, and managed the Environmental 
Geochemistry Research Group. “I am excited about the opportunities and 
challenges that exist for NOAA researchers and their collaborators in 
the Great Lakes, and look forward to contributing to the management team 
at GLERL.

Bratton received a bachelor’s degree from Brown University (1987) and a 
doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley (1997).

-- 
Margaret B. Lansing
Information Services Branch Chief
Ecologist
DOC/NOAA/GLERL
Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/
4840 S. State Rd.
Ann Arbor, MI 48108-9719
734-741-2210 (office)
734-741-2055 (fax)