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MERI Board of Directors

Officers

Susan D. Shaw, Dr.P.H., President/ CEO
Marine Toxicologist, Explorer
Founder/Director, Marine Environmental Research Institute
Brooklin, ME and New York, NY

Amy Britton, Vice-President
Architect, Britton Development LLC
Boulder, CO

Susan S. Gurin, Vice-President
Community Leader, Environmental Preservation
Blue Hill, ME

Patricia Starkey, Secretary
Owner, Starkey Farms Co., Inc.
Galena, MD

Greg Sundberg, Treasurer
President, Sundberg & Associates Inc.
New York, NY

Board

Benjamin H. Allen, Jr.
CEO, Allen Properties, Inc.
CEO, Heyward Allen Toyota
CEO, Heyward Allen Motor Company
President, B Allen and Co. Inc.
Athens, GA

Marty Dischinger
Realtor
Brooksville, ME

David G. Gallo, Ph.D.
Oceanographer, Explorer. Director of Special Projects
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Woods Hole, MA

George H. Harrop
Managing Director
CapitalSource LLC Small Business Lending
Washington, DC

Sheryl Kerr
Community Leader
Blue Hill, ME

Alida N. Lovell
Artist/ Women’s Committee, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
University of Pennsylvania
Newton Square, PA

Matthew Newton
CEO, Thoughtweb Financial, Inc.
East Haddam, CT

MERI Staff

Founder/ Director: Susan D. Shaw, Dr.P.H.
Associate Director: Sally Chadbourne
Education Director: Martha G. Bell
Office Manager: Sarah J. Curts
Senior Research Assistant: Michelle L. Berger
Monitoring Coordinator: Meggan Dwyer
Stranding Specialist/ Research Technician: Kirk Trabant
Receptionist/Office Assistant: VJ Stevenson

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MERI Advisory Board

Brian Bush, PhD
FRSC Professor
School of Public Health
State University of New York
Rensselear, NY

John Calambokidis
Senior research Biologist and Co-Founder
Cascadia Research Collective
Olympia, WA

David O. Carpenter, M.D.
Director, Institute for Health and the Environment
School of Public Health
University at Albany
Rensselaer, NY

Sylvain De Guise, DMV, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Pathobiology
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT

Rik L. de Swart, PhD
Erasmus University
Department of Virology
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Mark E. Hahn, PhD
Associate Scientist, Biology Department
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA

Chia-Swee Hong, PhD
Research Scientist III
Wadsworth Center, NYS Department of Health
Department of Environmental Health and Toxicology
State University of New York, Albany, NY

Kurunthachalam Kannan, PhD
Research Scientist,
Wadsworth Center
NYS Department of Health
Professor,
Department of Environmental Health and Toxicology
State University of New York
Albany, NY

Angela Matz, PhD
Contaminants Specialist
US Fish and Wildlife Service
Northern Alaska Ecological Services
Fairbanks, AK

Paul A. Mayewski, PhD, FEC, PHDhon
Director and Professor, Climate Change Institute
University of Maine
Orono, ME

A.D.M.E. Osterhaus, DVM, PhD
Institute of Virology
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Olaf Päpke, PhD
Eurofins | ERGO Research Center
Hamburg, Germany

Neal Pettigrew, PhD
Professor, Department of Oceanography
University of Maine
Director, Maine Oceanographic Services
Orono, Maine

Deborah Rice, PhD
Toxicologist, Environmental Health Unit
Maine Bureau of Health
Augusta, ME

Peter S. Ross, PhD
Ocean Chemistry Division
Institute of Ocean Sciences
Sidney, BC, Canada

William V. Shaw, MD
Founder and Senior Consultant
PanTherix, Ltd, UK
Deer Isle, ME

Shinsuke Tanabe, PhD
Professor
Department of Environmental Conservation
Ehime University, College of Agriculture
Matsuyama, Japan

Sean K. Todd, PhD
Associate Dean for Advanced Studies
College of the Atlantic
Senior Scientist, Allied Whale
Bar Harbor, ME

MERI Center for Marine Studies

55 Main Street
PO Box 1652
Blue Hill, ME 04614
Tel: 207-374-2135
Fax: 207-374-2931
info@meriresearch.org