Meet Our Speakers
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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