External Advisory Board

The External Advisory Board (EAB) provides CMOP with advice and feedback. EAB members come from many parts of the country and share with CMOP the vision of developing a new way of researching and understanding coastal marine environments in a highly integrated fashion, beginning at the microbial level and working upwards to climatological scales.

Board Members

Deborah Brosnan, Ph.D.
President
Sustainable Ecosystems Institute

Joan Oltman-Shay, Ph.D.
Coastal Oceanographer
President and Senior Research Scientist
Northwest Research Associates, Inc.

Nathaniel Pitts, Ph.D.
Former Director, Office of Integrative Activities (Retired)
National Science Foundation*
*Dr. Pitts retired from the NSF in Jan 2008.