Alumni News

SMA alumni remain very active in the marine affairs community. The following include just a sampling of their accomplishments in the local, regional and national marine arenas.

Darcey Rosenblatt, SMA '81, is Principal of Environmental Resource Strategies in Corte Madera, California.

Amy Margerum, SMA '82, is Executive Vice President of The Aspen Institute in Aspen, Colorado.

Terry Johnson, SMA '84, is Associate Professor and Agent for the Marine Advisory Program at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

Peter Britz, SMA '92, is Principal of Britz GIS, a company based in Newburg, Massachusetts, which provides natural resource management, coastal zone management planning and GIS services.

Janet Moore, SMA '92, is Program Coordinator of the Russian River Restoration Project for the California Sea Grant Program at Bodega Bay, California.

Sharon Rapach-Henry, SMA '92, is a College Instructor at the Peninsula College in Port Angeles, Washington.

Suzanne Rebert, SMA '93, is an Environmental Inspector for the Kentucky Division of Water, and teaching environmental economics at the University of Louisville.

Michael Jacobson, SMA '94, is Senior Associate at Clegg and Associates, a consulting firm in Seattle. He was formerly Deputy Director of Pacific Rim Enterprises, a non-profit organization that he helped create and develop over the past 4 1/2 years.

Michael Francisco, SMA '95, is the Commanding Officer of the John N. Cobb.

Rich Grant, SMA '95, is conducting federal coastal zone consistency reviews for the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development's Coastal Program.

Linda Storm, SMA '96, is a Wetland Ecologist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and is also studying for her PhD in Ethnoecology at the University of Washington's Environmental Anthropology Program.

Michael Kelly, SMA '97, is Deputy Director of NOAA's Office of Ocean Exploration in Silver Spring, Maryland. The office was created to respond to the recommendations created by the US Panel on Ocean Exploration last summer.

Dan Waldeck, SMA '97, is Staff Officer, Coastal Pelagic Species, Highly Migratory Species, Groundfish, at the Pacific Fishery Management Council.

Anne Walton, SMA '97, is the Management Plan Coordinator for NOAA's Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary in Santa Barbara, California.

Michelle Wilcox, SMA '97, is the Natural Resource Damage Specialist for the Washington State Department of Ecology.

Tom Green, SMA '98, is a Financial Analyst for the Port of Seattle, Corporate Finance and Budget Department.

Nina P. Hadley, SMA 98, has completed a one-year professional contract with Washington Sea Grant Program to assess the expansion and ever-increasing importance of coastal tourism and recreation in Washington state. She also continues, as president of Tidal Delta Consulting, to work locally with People for Puget Sound to manage the Sound Tourism-Sound Environment Project.

Ellie Linen Low, SMA '98, is Co-director of Salish Sea Expeditions which offers marine research programs in the classroom and on a 61 foot sailboat to schools and other groups.

Sean Willard, SMA 2000, is Climate Services Program Specialist for NOAA's new Climate Observations and Services Office in Silver Spring, Maryland.

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