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N. Christian Smoot spent his career spanning with the Ocean Survey Program (OSP; 1966-1993) and the World Bathymetry Division (1993-1998) of the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO). He has compiled over 200 PS-8 and PS-16 scale charts in addition to thousands of point data charts for the submarine community. The author logged over 1300 at-sea days on NAVOCEANO vessels, most as compilation supervisor or senior scientist, amassing over 600,000 nautical miles including 10 Med cruises, 35 Atlantic cruises, and 22 in the Pacific. He has delivered many talks/presentations up to international in scope in addition to many publications.

Editor of the New Concepts in Global Tectonics Newsletter.

Excerpt from http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dp5/subduct.htm:

\"Dong Choi?s battle with the plate-tectonic establishment came to a head in the late 1980s, when he was working for the Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources (now Geoscience Australia). He prepared a manuscript presenting evidence that Precambrian continental crust was present under the northwestern Pacific, and that a paleoland had existed there in the Paleozoic to Mesozoic. He based this conclusion on dredging and deep-sea drilling data, seismic profiles, paleogeography, and the geology of the Japanese Islands. However, the Chief of his Division told him that if he published the paper, he would have ?no room to stay with us,? while the Chief Scientist accused him of doing ?bad science? and reminded him that he was on contract. Choi published his article in the Journal of Petroleum Geology (Choi, 1987), and quit the organization soon afterwards (personal communication, May 2005). An editorial comment described the article as ?quite revolutionary ... almost certainly the precursor of the future in seismic exploration and tectonic interpretation.?