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