Board of Directors

Dr. Cecily Steppe

MARACOOS Board Chair

Chair & Professor

Oceanography Department

U.S. Naval Academy

E-mail: natunewi@usna.edu

Dr. Richard Luettich

MARACOOS Board Vice Chair

Alumni Distinguished Professor

Institute of Marine Sciences

University of North Carolina

E-mail: rick_luettich@unc.edu

Dr. Carolyn Thoroughgood

Past Board Chair

Professor, Emerita

School of Marine Science and Policy, College of Earth, Ocean and Environment

University of Delaware

E-mail: ctgood@udel.edu

Dr. Kathy Bunting-Howarth

Board Member

Interim Director

New York Sea Grant

E-mail: keb264@cornell.edu

Dr. Carl Friedrichs

Board Member

Loretta and Lewis Glucksman Professor of Marine Science

Virginia Institute of Marine Science, William & Mary

E-mail: carl.friedrichs@vims.edu

Dr. Scott Glenn

Board Member

Distiguished Professor

Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences

Rutgers University

E-mail: glenn@marine.rutgers.edu

Eoin Howlett

Board Member

Vice President, Digital Products

Trinnex

E-mail: eoinhowlett@gmail.com

Sarah McElman

Board Member

Lead Consultant

Metocean Expert Americas

E-mail: sarah@metoceanexpert.com 

Raymond Toll

Board Member

Former Director, Old Dominion University, Coastal Resilience Research

Former President, Marine Technology Service

Captain, USN, retired

E-mail: toll@cox.net

Nelson Vaz

Board Member

Warning Coordination Meteorologist

National Weather Service New York Weather Forecast Office (WFO)

E-mail: nelson.vaz@noaa.gov

Joe Vietri

Board Member

Chief of Planning & Policy, North Atlantic Division

Director of the National Planning Center for Coastal & Storm Damage

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

E-mail: joseph.r.vietri@usace.army.mil

Ben Williams

Board Member

Regional Serviceline Director, Americas

Metocean, Fugro

E-mail: bwilliams@fugro.com

Doug Wilson

Board Member

President

Caribbean Wind LLC

E-mail: doug@coastaloceanobs.com

Latasha Wright

Board Member

Executive Scientific Officer

BioBus 

E-mail: latasha@biobus.org