Marian Westley

Marian Westley, PhD, is the Director of NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), the nation’s authoritative source for accurate, reliable and timely waterlevel and current measurements. In this role, she oversees and continues to improve this 24- hour a day operation to provide mariners, coastal managers, and many other users with historic, realtime, and forecast data on ocean conditions along America’s 95,000mile coastline. Dr. Westley’s career with NOAA spans over twenty years with much of that time spent advancing climate research and the transition of research to operations. She joined CO-OPS in 2017 as the Deputy Director and has been the acting Director since January 2023. Dr. Westley has a BA in Physics and English from Yale University and an MSc and PhD in Oceanography and a Graduate Certificate in Ocean Policy from the University Hawaii at Manoa.