NERACOOS Board

The Board of Directors, established with appointments from the New England Sea Grant Programs, the Northeast Regional Ocean Council, and the Northeast Academic Consortium, governs the work of the regional association. The board's first meeting was held November 13, 2008. The NERACOOS Bylaws were adopted in November 2008.

Membership

Committees

Minutes

NERACOOS Board of Directors (as of December 2011)

Bold indicates member of the Executive Committee *Indicates member of the Nominating Committee **Indicates member of the Finance Committee

Board Member		Institution	Appointed by	Term Expiration
Bruce K. Carlisle	Director	Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management	NROC	2012
Dave Casoni	Director	Massachusetts Lobstermen’s Association	Sea Grant	2012
Alfred Hanson	Director	University of Rhode Island	NEAC	2014
Peter A. Jumars*	Director	University of Maine	NEAC	2012
Steven Lohrenz	Director	University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth	NEAC	2013
Matt Lyman	Director	Department of Energy and Environmental Protection	NROC	2014
Linda Mercer**	Treasurer	Maine Department of Marine Resources	NROC	2012
Chris Nash**	Director	New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services	NROC	2013
James O’Donnell	Director	University of Connecticut	NEAC	2012
Jonathan Pennock	Director	University of New Hampshire	NEAC	2014
Jack Ringelberg*	Director	JMS Naval Architects and Salvage Engineers	Sea Grant	2013
Peter Smith	Vice President	Bedford Institute of Oceanography	NEAC	2012
Malcolm Spaulding	President	University of Rhode Island	NEAC	2013
Michael Szemerda	Director	Cooke Aquaculture Inc.	Sea Grant	2012
Christine Tilburg	Director	Association of US Delegates to the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment	Sea Grant	2014
John Trowbridge	Director	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute	NEAC	2013
Cheryl Zimmerman	Secretary	FarSounder, Inc.	Sea Grant	2013

Mel Cote	Non-Voting Member	Environmental Protection Agency Region 1
Jonathan Hare	Non-Voting Member	NOAA NMFS Northeast Fisheries Science Center
Betsy Nicholson	Alternate, Non voting	NOAA Coastal Services Center
Andrew Thomas	Alternate	University of Maine
Doug Vandemark	Alternate	University of New Hampshire
Avijit Gangopadhyay	Alternate	University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Larry Madin	Alternate	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Melissa Ryan	Alternate	Ocean Technology Foundation
Marianne Molchan	Alternate	Marine Ocean Technology Network
Ted Diers	Alternate	New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services