External Advisory Board for CMOP

The External Advisory Board (EAB) of the Center for Coastal Margin Observation and Prediction (CMOP) provides advice and feedback to the Director of CMOP.

Roy Sampsel (Chair)
Board Member, Institute for Tribal Government
http://www.tribalgov.pdx.edu/bio_sampsel.php

Deborah Brosnan
President, Sustainable Ecosystems Institute
http://www.deborahbrosnan.com/

Tom Curtin
Chief Knowledge Officer
Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International
http://www.auvsi.org/us/

Margaret A. Davidson
Director
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Coastal Services Center
http://www.csc.noaa.gov/text/md_bio.html

Deborah Estrin
Director
NSF-STC for Embedded Networked Sensing
UCLA Computer Science Department
http://research.cens.ucla.edu/people/estrin/

Holly Given
Director, Ocean Observing
Joint Oceanographic Institutions
http://www.joiscience.org/node/729

Marcia K. McNutt
President and Chief Executive Officer
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
http://www.mbari.org/staff/marcia/

Joan Oltman-Shay
President and Senior Research Scientist
Northwest Research Associates, Inc.
http://www.nwra.com/resumes/oltman-shay/

Nathaniel Pitts
Former Director, Office of Integrative Activities
National Science Foundation
http://www.nsf.gov/od/oia/staff/pitts.jsp*
*Dr. Pitts retired from the NSF in Jan 2008.

Rick Spinrad
Assistant Administrator,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research
http://www.research.noaa.gov/organization/spinradbio.html

Larry P. Walker
Professor, Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering
Cornell University
Member, Executive Committee, Nanobiotechnology Center (NSF-STC)
http://www.aben.cornell.edu/WalkerLab/

Sharon H. Walker
Assistant Director for Outreach
Gulf Coast Research Laboratory
J. L. Scott Marine Education Center & Aquarium
University of Southern Mississippi
http://www.usm.edu/gcrl/contacts/view_vitae.php?id=318

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