OUR TEAM

 

Below you’ll find the SeaDoc Society Staff, Board of Directors, and Scientific Advisory Committee.

 

STAFF

Leigh Ann Gilmer Regional Director She/her/hers

Leigh Ann Gilmer
Regional Director
She/her/hers

Joe Gaydos Science Director He/him/his

Joe Gaydos
Science Director
He/him/his

Justin Cox Communications & Marketing Manager He/him/his

Justin Cox
Communications & Marketing Manager
He/him/his

 
Erika Nilson Executive Assistant She/her/hers

Erika Nilson
Executive Assistant
She/her/hers

Michelle Cartier Homewood Administrative Assistant She/her/hers

Michelle Cartier Homewood
Administrative Assistant
She/her/hers

Catherine Lo
Research Assistant
She/her/hers

 

Bob Friel
Producer, Salish Sea Wild
He/him/his

 

Madison Churchill
Social Media and Communications Editor
She/her/hers

 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

 

AUDREY BENEDICT


 
 
 
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JANICE D’AMATO

 
 
 

LAURA DONALD

 
 

ASHLEY EBBELER

 
 
 
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CECILIA GOBIN

 
 
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ARDI KVEVEN

 
 
 
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JOANNE WATTS

 
 
 
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JESS NEWLEY

 
 
 
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ELEANOR PARKS

 
 
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EMERY RHODES

 
 
 

Laurie St. Aubin

 
 
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KIRSTEN GILARDI

Ex-officio Board Member

Director, Karen C. Drayer Wildlife Health Center

 
 

Emeritus Board Members: Deborah Brosnan, Washington, DC; Sam Buck, San Juan Island, WA; Kevin Campion, Seattle, WA; Tom Cowan, Lopez Island, WA; Gary Davis, Westlake Village, CA; Kathy Dickinson, Anacortes, WA; Leslie Dierauf, Oro Valley, AZ; Alan Fritzberg, Bellingham, WA; Wally Gudgell, Orcas Island, WA; Bill Hoglund, Wilson, WY; Tom Hughes, Seattle, WA; Grant Kirby, Mt. Vernon, WA; Read Langenbach, 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; 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.

 
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ERIC ANDERSON

British Columbia Institute of Technology

 
 
 
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MEG CHADSEY

Washington Sea Grant

 
 
 
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KEN CURRENS

Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission

 
 
 
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MEGAN DETHIER

Interim Director, Friday Harbor Laboratories, UW

 
 
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JAMIE DONATUTO

Swinomish Indian Tribal Community

 
 
 

NICK GEORGIADIS

Puget Sound Institute at the University of Washington

 
 
 
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MARTIN HAULENA

Vancouver Aquarium

 
 
 
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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

 
 
 

KERRY NAISH

School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences

 
 
 
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MARGUERITE PAPPAIOANOU

Animal and Planetary Health, Center for One Health Research, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, University of Washington

 
 
 
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JOANNA SMITH

TNC Canada

 
 
 
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BILLIE SWALLA

 
 
 
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JANE WATSON

Vancouver Island University

 
 

Past Scientific Advisors: 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.