Dan Hoover
Oceanographer, USGS
Dan Hoover is an Oceanographer with the USGS in Santa Cruz, CA. In addition to co-coordinating the Coastal Hazards component of ArkStorm with Patrick
Barnard, he has worked on a number of coastal geology projects in the San Francisco and Santa Barbara areas, primarily in the area of sand transport.
Prior to joining the USGS in 2008, Dr Hoover was the resident physical oceanographer for the PISCO (Partnership for Interdisciplinary Study of Coastal Oceans) program at UC Santa Cruz, and he has worked extensively on the geochemistry and ecosystem impacts of runoff in Hawai’i. He has a PhD in
Geochemical Oceanography and an MS in Biological Oceanography from the University of Hawai’i, and an ME in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College.
