External Advisory Board for CMOP

CMOP's external advisory board (EAB) provides the center with advice and feedback. The members are from all around the country and share a common vision to better understand the health of rivers and oceans on a microbial level.

MEET OUR BOARD MEMBERS

Roy Sampsel (Chair)
Director
Institute for Tribal Government
www.tribalgov.pdx.edu/bio_sampsel.php

Deborah Brosnan
President
Sustainable Ecosystems Institute
www.deborahbrosnan.com/

Tom Curtin
Chief Scientist
NATO Undersea Research Center
www.csc.noaa.gov/text/md_bio.html

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

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

Nathaniel Pitts
Former Director, Office of Integrative Activities (Ret.)
National Science Foundation
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
www.research.noaa.gov/organization/spinradbio.html

Sharon H. Walker
Professor Emeritus
Department of Coastal Sciences
Gulf Coast Research Laboratory and
J. L. Scott Marine Education Center
University of Southern Mississippi
/www.usm.edu/gcrl/contacts/view_vitae.php?id=318