The OceansWide Board of Directors
 Campbell A. Scott, President
Read my bio
 Dr. George Matsumoto
I am currently a Senior Education and Research Specialist
at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
which means I get the best of two worlds and work on
a
combination of research and education projects. I
am interested
in
the open
ocean and deep sea communities with particular
emphasis on invertebrates. Specific areas of interest
include:
Ecology
and biogeography of open ocean and deep sea organisms;
Functional morphology, natural history, and
behavior of pelagic and
benthic organisms; Systematics and evolution
of ctenophores and cnidarians (molecular phylogeny).
You
can see
some of our current midwater research work on-line.
I am very committed
towards education at the undergraduate and graduate
level and am active at the local, regional, and
national level.
I am the chair for the ORION Education and Public
Awareness
Committee and serve on the advisory board for
the COSEE program, Friends of the Monterey Academy Of
Sciences,
and Camp SEALab.
At MBARI I manage a number of different projects
including
our seminar program, our internship program,
and joint activities with our sister institution, the
Monterey
Bay Aquarium. I
am a California native and went to UC Berkeley
(undergraduate) and UCLA (graduate) for my education.
I have spent
three years teaching down in South Australia and
have had the
opportunity to SCUBA all around the world.
I'm very
lucky as I have a
wonderful wife and two young boys that support
my research and educational efforts as they often mean
that
I have
to spend time away from them.
Mike Pinto, Chief Financial Officer, Monterey Bay
Aquarium Research
 Jeff Jones
I have lived and worked on the coast
of Maine my entire life. I have viewed the Gulf of Maine
in many different ways, as biology major at the University
of Maine at Orono, as a scuba diver and a dive instructor
and from the deck of my lobster boat as a commercial fisherman
from Criehaven Island. My grandfather and his father before
him fished the waters of the Gulf of Maine and beyond. Throughout
my life I listened as they shared stories of their time off
shore on the fishing grounds. The more I listened to and
lived these stories the more I realized what a treasure we
have here in Maine and importance of keeping this heritage
alive. I have been working on the OceansWide program from
its inception and I look forward to continuing to do so for
a very long time to come. I am proud to serve on the board
of directors. But I am even more enthusiastic about the opportunities
OceansWide will offer the youth of Maine. OceansWide will
instill in the students of Maine something I feel is a great
necessity for everyone in Maine: the pride and the awareness
of our rich coastal history and ability to understand and
preserve Maine resources and the Maine way of life. A life
which has given strength and meaning to anyone who has ever
made a living here on the coast of Maine.
 Dana Orenstein
 Bruce H. Robison - Senior Scientist, Monterey Bay Aquarium
Research Institute
Bruce Robison received a Ph.D. from Stanford
University in 1973. He spent two years conducting postdoctoral
research at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, before moving
to UC Santa Barbara. In 1987 he joined the newly formed Monterey
Bay Aquarium Research Institute.
Robison's research is focused
on the biology and ecology of deep sea animals, particularly
those that inhabit the oceanic water column. He pioneered the use of undersea
vehicles for these studies and he led the first team of scientists
trained as research submersible pilots. As pilot or observer,
Robison has spent a good portion of his career in deep
water, aboard more than a dozen different submersibles. At MBARI,
his research team has focused on the development of remotely
operated vehicles as research platforms for deep-sea research.
Bruce Robison is a Fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science. In 2002 he received the Marine
Technology Society's Lockheed-Martin Award for Ocean Science
and Engineering. His research in deep-sea ecology has carried
him throughout the Pacific, to the Atlantic, and to the
oceanic waters around Antarctica. He is the author of two
books and more than eighty scientific publications.
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