COAST Annual Meeting April CSU Chancellor s Office, Long Beach. Panelists and Breakout Group Leader Biographies

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1 COAST Annual Meeting April CSU Chancellor s Office, Long Beach Panelists and Breakout Group Leader Biographies Mr. William J. Douros West Coast Regional Director NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries William J. Douros serves as the West Coast Regional Director for the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries responsible for oversight of nearly 13,000 square miles protected as national marine sanctuaries on the west coast of the United States. From 1998 to 2005, Bill was the Superintendent for Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. In 2005, Bill became the Regional Director. From 2010 through 2012 he served as the Acting Deputy Director of the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, working much of that time from Washington, D.C. Bill's past work and educational experience combines coastal policy, marine science and operational management. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in Environmental Biology from the U.C. Santa Barbara in Bill's graduate work, conducted at Santa Cruz Island, examined intra-specific competition within extremely high-density populations of black abalone (Haliotis cracherodii). He also evaluated archaeological remains to determine how pre-historic predation on abalone may have affected their population sizes. Immediately after graduating with a Master's degree in Marine Ecology from University of California, Santa Barbara in 1985, Bill worked for, and for seven years managed, Santa Barbara County's Energy Division, which regulates offshore oil and gas development in that county. Dr. Linda Duguay Director University of Southern California Sea Grant Dr. Linda Duguay is the Director of the University of Southern California (USC) Sea Grant Program and Director of Research for the Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies at USC. She is an Associate Research Professor in the Marine Environmental Biology Section of the Biology Department in the Dornsife College of Letters Arts and Sciences at USC. Dr. Duguay received her AB in Biology from the University of Rhode Island (URI) and her MS and PhD in Biological Oceanography from the University of Miami (UM), Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. She has held

2 research faculty positions at the Marine Sciences Research Center of the State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNYSB) and at the Center for Environmental Sciences of the University of Maryland (UMD), and has also held teaching positions at Southampton College of Long Island University (LIU) and St. Mary's College, Maryland. Dr. Duguay served as a program manager at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the Biological Oceanography Program and the Office of Polar Programs in both the Antarctic and Arctic Sciences Programs. Dr. Duguay's research interests are in plankton ecology of ctenophores, algal invertebrate symbioses, and benthic ecology with a focus on disturbance in dredge material sites. She served as the Chair of the NSF supported Centers of Ocean Sciences Education Excellence (COSEE) Network. She served two terms as the Biological Oceanography Section secretary of the Ocean Sciences (OS) section of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and served on the OS section leadership team and chaired the OS nominations committee. She has served as a member of the ASLO informal science education committee, and served as Treasurer of the Sea Grant Association (SGA) and as a Board Member. Dr. James Eckman Director California Sea Grant Dr. James Eckman, a biological oceanographer and longtime senior science administrator at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in Arlington, VA, joined California Sea Grant in January, 2011 as its new director. Eckman is familiar to many in the oceanographic community, as he has led ONR s flagship Marine Mammals and Biological Oceanography Program, and its predecessors, for 13 years prior to joining California Sea Grant. He has also led ONR s participation in the federal, multi-agency National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP), which coordinates the nation s oceanographic research and education programs and promotes partnerships among academia, business and federal agencies. Prior to joining ONR Jim was a Professor at the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography in Savannah, Georgia where he led diverse studies of seafloor biology and ecology in environments ranging from the nearshore, to the shelf, and into the deep sea. For the last 25 years, Jim has also participated in kelp ecology studies on the West Coast with colleagues at the University of Washington. Jim received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in

3 Ms. Phyllis Grifman Associate Director University of Southern California Sea Grant Phyllis Grifman, Associate Director of the USC Sea Grant Program, works with local, state, regional and federal organizations to fulfill Sea Grant s mandate to ensure that scientific research meets the information needs of coastal and ocean managers and policy makers. She coordinates Sea Grant s research and outreach programs, working at the intersection of science and policy to develop strategies for prioritizing scientific investigation in the context of societal needs, and to provide scientific results to local, state and regional entities in formats most appropriate for their needs. Ms. Grifman is experienced with stakeholder-based processes, having worked on the implementation of California s landmark Marine Life Protection Act, developing sets of marine protected area proposals in a collaborative, albeit highly conflictual, environment. She serves as Vice Chair of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council and on the Board of the California Shore and Beach Preservation Association. She has expertise in configuring and facilitating teams of scientific experts, agency managers and personnel, and diverse publics. Mr. William Lyte Business Development Manager, Environmental Studies and Permitting Burns & McDonnell Mr. Lyte represents Burns & McDonnell, a global environmental, engineering and construction services firm with a strong capability in the marine sciences. A native of the Los Angeles area, he has a broad spectrum of experience within the marine, industrial, and technology sectors. This includes 25 years of business development and technical experience with major U.S. consulting engineering firms, focused on the San Pedro Bay and California ports and their goods movement systems. Among his projects was the management of a three-year federally funded satellite imaging analysis of the ports and Alameda Corridor rail project, with team members NASA JPL, CSU Long Beach and U.C. Santa Barbara. A follow-on three-year technology commercialization project yielded GPS-based port truck tracking systems now in operation at the San Pedro Bay ports. Mr. Lyte is a director and technology program lead for both the Harbor Association of Industry and Commerce, and the California Marine and Intermodal Transportation System Advisory Council (CALMITSAC), which also includes CSU Long Beach (CITT) and the California Maritime Academy. Since 2008, he has also worked with the Australian and U.S. federal and state agencies and utility companies involved in the marine renewable energy field. He is currently working with CSU COAST to secure funding from the State of California s EPIC Program for marine biological sector research related to ocean energy. Mr. Lyte is known nationally for his work in university-based innovation clusters, including (1) with Caltech/JPL, City of Pasadena and County of L.A. (greentech and biotech), (2) CSU Long Beach and Ports of Long Beach and L.A. (port, energy and air emissions technology) and (3) Metropolitan Water District, CSU Pomona and the University of La Verne (water and energy 3

4 technology). Mr. Lyte received a B.A. from U.C. Santa Barbara in Environmental Studies. His focus was satellite remote sensing for environmental analysis. Dr. S. Bradley Moran Program Director, Chemical Oceanography Program, National Science Foundation Professor of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island Brad Moran is currently Program Director in the Chemical Oceanography Program at the National Science Foundation (Intergovernmental Personnel Act-rotator), and holds the position of Professor of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island. He recently served as Assistant Vice President for Research at the University of Rhode Island, and was Co-Director and Co-Principal Investigator of the National Science Foundation Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) award to Rhode Island. He has held leadership roles in a number of successful statewide development initiatives, focused on promoting research, education, and outreach related to energy, the environment, and sustainability. Dr. Moran s principal academic research interests include the application of uranium-series and artificial radionuclides as tracers of marine geochemical processes, and fostering economic development and public-private partnerships in energy and environmental research and education. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and book sections, participated in 66 research cruises (over 1000 days at sea), and successfully competed for approximately $19M in federal and state research funding. In 2007, he envisioned and implemented the nation s first Masters of Business Administration-Masters of Oceanography dual degree at URI, the Blue MBA, and obtained unanimous faculty approval and endorsement from multiple private and public stakeholders. He has held several adjunct academic appointments, served as visiting scientist at a number of international agencies and institutes, and currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Marine Research and as Editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research- Oceans. He received a B.Sc. in Chemistry from Concordia University, a Ph.D. in Oceanography from Dalhousie University, and conducted postdoctoral research at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Dr. Shauna Oh Associate Director California Sea Grant Shauna Oh is the Associate Director at California Sea Grant and serves in the capacity as the research coordinator for the program. She coordinates with the director in the scientific and policy aspects of research program management, including the scientific review and evaluation for state and federal research proposals and manages all graduate and postdoctoral fellowship programs. Her responsibilities include working collaboratively with state and federal agencies, and the state-wide academic and research community to increase the state's research capacity and training the next generation of marine and coastal scientists and policy makers. 4

5 Shauna manages the following research and education initiatives for California Sea Grant: MPA Baseline Programs- North Central, South and North Coast Study Regions, Collaborative Fisheries Research West Program, Delta Science Fellowship Program and the California Sea Grant State Marine Policy Fellowship Program. She is a member of the Coastal Sediment Management Workgroup and is currently the chair of the Sea Grant Research Coordinators Network. She earned her B.S. in biology with marine biology concentration at UCLA, a M.S. in fisheries at Humboldt State University and a Ph.D. in fisheries at Michigan State University. Dr. Phillip Taylor Executive Director, Research Advancement & Federal Relations, Office of Advancement University of Southern California I am currently at the University of Southern California as Executive Director of Research Advancement and Federal Relations. Many in the ocean science community know me from my tenure as a public servant in the Division of Ocean Sciences (OCE) at the NSF. Recently, I served as Program Director for Biological Oceanography, then as the Section Head for Oceans, overseeing Chemical, Physical and Biological Oceanography, Long-Term Ecological Research, and other program elements. My research background is in community and population ecology of marine systems. I ve worked on coastal ecological systems; more specifically, on temperate reef and intertidal ecosystems, coral reefs and mangroves. I received my Bachelor s and Master s in Biological Sciences, from UCSB and Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, respectively. My Ph.D., in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, is from the UC Irvine. As Director of NSF s Biological Oceanography Program, with leaders in the ocean community, I helped develop and oversee focused-research programs on climate change and ecosystems (GLOBEC and JGOFS in U.S. Global Change Research Program), marine biotechnology, deepsea environmental science (RIDGE), bio-complexity in the environment, life in extreme environments (LExEn), coupled natural and human systems in the environment (CNH), environmental genomics, and coastal ecosystems -- many highly interdisciplinary in nature and including both international and interagency partnerships. With the academic community, I led the entry of OCE/Geosciences into NSF s world-renowned Long-Term Ecological Research Program (LTER) in partnership with Biological and Polar Programs. With ASLO, sister agencies, and other NSF programs, I led the establishment of ASLO s Ecological Dissertations in the Aquatic Sciences (ECO-DAS) after contributing to the initiation and support of its predecessor -DIALOG. As Section Head, I led the development the new Ocean Sciences Broadening Participation programs (Post-Doctoral and Research Initiation Grants for underrepresented minority and women scientists), and helped anchor development the NSF s diverse Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability (SEES) portfolio, including Ocean Acidification, Dimensions of Biodiversity, and Sustainability Research Networks, and RCN- SEES. 5