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U.S. Senator, Rhode Island (D)

Counselor for Environment and Oceans at the Delegation of the European Union in the;
US

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Laboratory Assistant, Santoro Lab, University of California, Santa Barbara

Professor, Environmental and Resource Economics, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University;

Program Officer, NSF Convergence Accelerator

Senior Research Fellow, BOTTLE Consortium, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Director, Rhode Island Sea Grant;
Professor, Marine Affairs

Associate Professor in Biological Sciences

Doctoral Student, Biological & Environmental Sciences, URI

Professor and Director, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS), Florida State University

Northeast Regional Coordinator, NOAA Marine Debris Program

Climate Justice Specialist, Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management

Senior Advisor, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, U.S. Department of State, 2023 Global Plastics Forum Speaker

Senior Research Associate, University of Miami, Co-Founder, GreenWave Instruments, LLC

Senior Scientist, Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)

Research Associate, National Research Council of Canada

Research Scientist, US Environmental Protection Agency, Atlantic Coastal Environmental Sciences Division

Interim Vice-President of Research and Economic Development, University of Rhode Island

Director, Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good and Global Observatory on Planetary Health, Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, Boston College

Research Professor of Oceanography at Sea Education Association

Program Services Officer, Office of the Director, Rhode Island Department of;
Environmental Management

Program Director, Technology, Innovation and Partnerships, National Science Foundation;
(NSF-TIP)

Executive Director, Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation

Associate Professor, Oceanography

Professor of Practice, School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, University of Washington;
Director, NF Ocean Nexus Center at EarthLab, University of Washington

Director, Bureau of Integrated Rural Development (BIRD), College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana.

Lead Ocean Plastics Advisor, United States Agency for International Development (USAID);

Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, George and Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience, Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Rhode Island.

Coordinator, KNUST Short Courses/Special Programmes, Environmental;
Scientist/Biometrician/M&E Expert/Development Practitioner, Bureau of Integrated Rural Development;
(BIRD) / Institute of Distance Learning (IDL), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology;
(KNUST)

Chief Operations Officer, Co-Founder, Mango Materials

Associate Professor, Biology, Marine Biology, & Environmental Science, Roger Williams University

(Narragansett-Niantic), Executive Director, Tomaquag Museum

Assistant Professor in Fisheries, Animal and Veterinary Science

Marine Research Associate, Omand lab, University of Rhode Island

Director & Head, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), North America

Professor in Environmental and Natural Resources and Economics ;
Associate Director of URI Coastal Institute

Postdoctoral Research Scholar, School of Marine & Environmental Affairs, University of Washington