Douglas Schleiger

Douglas R. Schleiger, the Smithsonian’s Scientific Diving Officer, oversees all Smithsonian research diving activities worldwide, including training, safety, emergency response, and operations. In December of 2013, Schleiger joined the Smithsonian after a 27-year career as a uniformed Corps Officer as well as a civilian with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). During his last four years at NOAA, Doug was manager of the NOAA Diving Center, where he was responsible for all training, maintenance of diving equipment, support and supervision of technical and special dive operations, and recompression chamber support provided to the NOAA Diving Program.  In addition, Schleiger was the Acting NOAA Diving Program Manager for the final two years of his NOAA career.

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