OUR TEAM
Below you’ll find the SeaDoc Society Staff, Board of Directors, and Scientific Advisory Committee.
STAFF
Leigh Ann Gilmer
Regional Director
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Joe Gaydos
Science Director
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Justin Cox
Communications & Marketing Manager
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Erika Nilson
Executive Assistant
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Michelle Cartier Homewood
Administrative Assistant
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Catherine Lo
Research Assistant
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Bob Friel
Producer, Salish Sea Wild
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Madison Churchill
Social Media and Communications Editor
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
JEFF ANDERSON
AUDREY BENEDICT
ELEANOR Brekke
JANICE D’AMATO
LAURA DONALD
CECILIA GOBIN
ARDI KVEVEN
JESS NEWLEY
EMERY RHODES
Laurie St. Aubin
BARBARA TISI
SCOTT WHITE
JOANNE WATTS
KIRSTEN GILARDI
Ex-officio Board Member
Director, Karen C. Drayer Wildlife Health Center
Emeritus Board Members: Deborah Brosnan, Washington, DC; Kevin Campion, Seattle, WA; Tom Cowan, Lopez Island, WA; Gary Davis, Westlake Village, CA; Kathy Dickinson, Anacortes, WA; Leslie Dierauf, Oro Valley, AZ; Wally Gudgell, Orcas Island, WA; Bill Hoglund, Wilson, WY; Tom Hughes, Seattle, WA; Nan McKay, Seattle, WA; JoAnn Mills, Seattle, WA; Lisa Newland, Everett, WA, Kevin Ranker, Orcas Island, Ingrid Rasch, Seattle, WA, Dave Roberts, Orcas Island, WA; Rochelle Severson, Orcas Island, WA.
Past Board Members: Molly Bailey, Seattle, WA; Larry Campbell, Swinomish Tribe; Ashley Ebbeler, Portugal; Scott Halquist, Orcas Island, WA; Richard Keck, Orcas Island, WA; Ron McDowell, Orcas Island, WA; Kit Rawson, Mount Vernon, WA; Win Rhodes, Orcas Island, WA.
SCIENCE ADVISORS
The SeaDoc Society’s scientific advisors provide counsel on research priorities and scientific issues relating to the health of marine wildlife and the marine ecosystem in the Pacific Northwest and North American Pacific Ocean.
They also provide critical review of pre-proposals and full proposals submitted to the SeaDoc Society Competitive Grants program. Members are appointed in recognition of the prominence they have achieved in their careers, and for their efforts on behalf of ecosystem health in the Salish Sea region.
ERIC ANDERSON
British Columbia Institute of Technology
PHIL BLOCH
Confluence Environmental Company
MEG CHADSEY
Washington Sea Grant
MEGAN DETHIER
Interim Director, Friday Harbor Laboratories, UW
JAMIE DONATUTO
Swinomish Indian Tribal Community
MARTIN HAULENA
Vancouver Aquarium
MARCO HATCH
Huxley College of the Environment
SUNNY JARDINE
School of Marine and Environmental Affairs + Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management Interdisciplinary Graduate Program at the University of Washington
Caitlin Magel
Puget Sound Institute, University of Washington Tacoma
KERRY NAISH
School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, University of Washington
MARGUERITE PAPPAIOANOU
Animal and Planetary Health, Center for One Health Research, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, University of Washington
JOANNA SMITH
TNC Canada
BILLIE SWALLA
University of Washington
JANE WATSON
Vancouver Island University
Past Scientific Advisors: Ken Currans, Nick Georgiadis, Gary Greene, Mart Gross, Terrie Klinger, Christine Kreuder Johnson, Linda Lowenstine, Edward Melvin, David Nysewander, Richard Osborne, Wayne Palsson, Sam Ridgway, Peter Ross, Kenneth Sebens, Michael Stoskopf, Glenn Van Blaricom, Katherine (Trina) Wellman, Jim West, Jacques White, Dennis Willows.