Team

Meet the Advisors

Faculty Advisors

Faculty Advisory Team consists of URI faculty with diverse set of skills, expertise and disciplines. They work together to oversee that the initiative represents the University’s strengths and capacity to execute the initiative. They also play key roles in ensuring that the research is accurately translated via the initiative, while also identifying emerging areas.

External Advisors

External Advisory Team is made up a team of cross-sector, -discipline and -boundary experts with diverse perspectives to represent variety of audiences and experiences in the plastics world. They play key roles providing the necessary and diverse input to guide the leadership, governance and oversight of initiative during its critical growth time.

Faculty Advisory Team

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Director, Rhode Island Consortium for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology ; Adjunct Faculty, Department of Chemical Engineering

Assistant Professor in Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design (TMD)

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Associate Professor in Biological Sciences

Assistant Professor, Management in College of Business

Diving Safety Officer for the University of Rhode Island

Assistant Professor, Multimedia Journalism

Associate Professor, Chemistry

Professor, Oceanography in the Graduate School of Oceanography

Assistant Professor, Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemical Engineering

Assistant Professor in Fisheries, Animal and Veterinary Science

Professor, Oceanographer; Director, URI Coastal Resources Center

External Advisory Team

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Associate Director of Ocean Plastics Research, Ocean Conservancy

Doctoral Student, Biological & Environmental Sciences, URI

Director, RI Department of Environmental Management

Executive Director, Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation

Senior Vice President, Darlington Fabrics

Environmental Scientist II, Narragansett Bay Commission

CEO, The Ocean Agency

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