STEERING COMMITTEE

Emanuele Di Lorenzo (Chair)
Professor & Director
Ocean Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

David Koweek
Science Director
Ocean Visions Inc

Mark Merrifield
Presidential Chair Professor
Director, CCIA Center, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Martin Gray
Senior VP & Chief Marketing Officer
Georgia Aquarium

Kyle Van Houtan
Chief Scientist
Monterey Bay Aquarium

Emmett Duffy
Director of MarineGEO
Smithsonian Institution

Erin V. Satterthwaite
PEGASuS Postdoctoral Researcher
NCEAS & Future Earth

Al Dove
VP Research and Conservation
Georgia Aquarium

Keith McGregor
Director of VentureLab
Georgia Institute of Technology

Nancy Knowlton
U.S. National Academy of Sciences
Sant Chair of Marine Science, Smithsonian Institution

Fiorenza Micheli (Co-Chair)
David and Lucile Packard Professor
Co-director, Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University

Mark Abbott
President and Director
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Anna Zivian
Senior Research Fellow
Ocean Conservancy

Gwen Nero
Director Corporate Affiliates,
Business Development, Industry Outreach, and Innovation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Clark Alexander
Director and Professor
Skidaway Institute of Oceanography

Chuck Greene
Professor
Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University

Harry Helling
Executive Director
Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Brad Ack
Executive Director & Chief Innovation Officer
Ocean Visions Inc

Christopher Field
Melvin and Joan Lane Professor
Director, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University

Pierre Lermusiaux
Professor & Associate Head
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Chris Scholin
President and CEO
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

Millicent Pitts
Chief Executive Officer & Director
The Ocean Exchange

Samantha Joye
Endowed Professor
The University of Georgia

Raffaele Ferrari
Cecil and Ida Green Professor
Chair, Program in Atmos, Oceans and Climate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mark Hay
Teasley and Regents' Professor
School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology
