BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION FOR STRATEGIC PLANNING GROUP MEMBERS, STAFF AND CONSULTANTS

Bill Adler
Executive Director, Massachusetts Lobstermen's Association
Member, Massachusetts Fisheries Commission

[Bio pending]

Priscilla Brooks
Director, Ocean Conservation Program, Conservation Law Foundation

Priscilla Brooks is Senior Economist and Director of the Ocean Conservation Program for the Conservation Law Foundation (CLF). CLF is a member supported non-profit organization founded in 1966 and is New England’s leading environmental advocacy organization. CLF’s advocates use law, economics, and science to design and implement strategies that conserve natural resources, protect public health, and promote vital communities in the region. Dr. Brooks received her B.S. degree in Communications from Cornell University in 1981 and M.S. (1987) and Ph.D. (1992) degrees in environmental and natural resource economics from the University of Rhode Island. Dr. Brooks’ work focuses on issues surrounding fisheries management, ecosystem protection, and comprehensive ocean management. Prior to joining CLF in 1994, she conducted extensive research on seafood marketing and trade, as well as aquaculture economics. In addition, she has worked on recreational fishing boats and research vessels in waters from Labrador to the Caribbean. Recently in Massachusetts, Dr. Brooks served on Governor Romney’s Ocean Management Task Force.

John Bullard
President, Sea Education Association

John Bullard is President of Sea Education Association (SEA) in Woods Hole. SEA teaches college students and others about the oceans during a 12 week SEA Semester both on shore and on board one of SEA’s sailing vessels. From 1986 – 1992 Mr. Bullard was mayor of the City of New Bedford. He brought the city into compliance with the Clean Water Act by planning and financing a secondary wastewater treatment plant. After leaving City Hall, Mr. Bullard worked for the New Bedford Seafood Co-Op, organizing fishermen in New England as they faced the crisis of depleted stocks. That work led him to Washington, where he joined the Clinton administration in 1993. As head of the first federal Office of Sustainable Development (located in NOAA), Mr. Bullard developed programs to assist fishing families in New England, the Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. He worked in close partnership with senior staff at NMFS to tie economic assistance to more restrictive fishing regulations in New England. He also worked on the President’s Council on Sustainable Development developing policies to unite the goals of economic opportunity, environmental health and social equity.

Mr. Bullard earned his Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude at Harvard in 1969. He received both a Master of Architecture and a Master of City Planning from M.I.T. in 1974. He has lectured and written widely and received numerous awards including an Honorary Master of Public Service from UMass Dartmouth. John is active in many local organizations. He chairs the Board of the Coalition for Buzzards Bay. He also chairs the Environment Committee of the Cruising Club of America.

Rick Burnes
Co-founder, Partner, Charles River Ventures

Rick Burnes was a co-founder of Charles River Ventures in 1970 and has played a major role in the firm's development into one of the country's major venture firms with offices in Waltham, Mass. and Menlo Park, California. Over the last 15 years, Mr. Burns has focused on investments in the fields of communications and information services. Among the successful investments he has led on behalf of Charles River are: Cascade Communications, Chipcom Corporation, Epoch Systems, Abacus Direct, Summa Four, Concord Communications, Prominet, Aptis and Sonus Networks.

Apart from venture capital, Mr. Burns has been active in community organizations. Currently he is Chairman of Boston's nationally recognized Museum of Science, Chairman of the Entrepreneur's Foundation of New England, Vice Chairman of Sea Education Association and Director of The Boston Foundation. He is a past Chairman of the Board of the Middlesex School.

Mr. Burns is an avid sailor and actively races a 45-foot sloop in ocean competitions, and is a member of the Bermuda Race Committee. He has cruised extensively in many parts of the world including a trans-Atlantic voyage from Cape Cod to Scotland via Iceland with his wife and three children. Mr. Burns holds a B.A. in history from Harvard College and an MBA from Boston University.

Fara Courtney
President, Good Harbor Consulting

[Bio pending]

Richard Delaney
Executive Vice President, Horsley Witten Group

Richard F. Delaney is the Executive Vice President of the Horsley Witten Group, environmental sciences, engineering and management small business firm. Special areas of focus include integrated water resources management, advanced wastewater and storm water engineering, land use planning and management within a sustainable growth framework and coastal and ocean planning and management.

From 1990 to 2004, Mr. Delaney was the founding Director of the Urban Harbors Institute at the University of Massachusetts Boston where he is currently a Senior Fellow. The Institute conducts multidisciplinary research, technical assistance and public education activities primarily on issues that affect urban harbor communities and has been directly involved with many aspects of the restoration of water quality in Boston Harbor. Mr. Delaney has provided consultations to governments in other states and in over 20 countries regarding capacity building, institutional strengthening, and public education and outreach campaigns.

Prior to the Institute, Mr. Delaney was the Assistant Secretary of Environmental Affairs in Massachusetts and the Director of the Coastal Zone Management Program. During that period, he played instrumental roles in the development of coastal and ocean policies, regulations and management strategies and the establishment of several management programs including Mass Bays National Estuary Program, Waquoit Bay National Estuary Research Reserve and the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. During the 1980’s, he also served as the National Chair of the Coastal States Organization in Washington DC representing the views of the 35 coastal states, Great Lake states and US territories and their Governors on legislative and budgetary matters before Congress.

He has BS in Political Science from Harvard and has completed graduate studies in environmental planning and landscape architecture at the State University of New York College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry.

Paul Diodati
Director, Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries

Appointed to the state's lead fisheries management position in 2000, Paul Diodati has worked closely with both recreational and commercial sectors during his career, successfully utilizing his diversified experience to sustain the respect of the industry, legislature and state, federal and interstate managing bodies. A career fishery biologist with 20+ years of service at Marine Fisheries, he is renowned for work on striped bass and northern shrimp. Previously Paul managed Marine Fisheries' Sportfish Program for which he earned universal praise for the program's effectiveness, especially renewed efforts to educate the public about our state's fisheries and the need for conservation. Home-grown and well-trained, Mr. Diodati pursues the agency's mission to manage the Commonwealth's living marine resources and the harvesting of those resources by the commercial and recreational fisheries, while maintaining a diverse number of self-sustaining fish populations at healthy levels of abundance in balance with the ecosystem, thus, providing wealth and benefits to all citizens of Massachusetts.

Barry Gibson
New England Regional Director, Recreational Fishing Alliance

Capt. Barry Gibson spent 27 years with Salt Water Sportsman (SWS), and was the magazine’s Editor from 1982 to 2004, supervising 30 home staffers, art directors, and field editors, and working closely with nearly 100 contributors. Responsible for the editorial content and direction of SWS for 22 years, Gibson also contributed hundreds of feature articles, photos and editorials to the magazine during his tenure, and currently serves as the Associate Publisher of Fish Boats Registry, a nationally-distributed annual boat-buyers’ guide, and as a Senior Editor for Center Console Angler magazine. A long-time proponent of responsible fishery management, he has served on numerous state, federal, and international boards, including the New England Fishery Management Council (three 3-year terms, Chairman 1992) and the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) Advisory Committee. Currently he serves as Chairman of the NEFMC Recreational Advisory Panel, as a member of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Committee, is vice-president of the Northeast Charterboat Captains Association (which he co-founded in 1988), and serves as the New England Regional Director for the nationally-acclaimed Recreational Fishing Alliance. Capt. Gibson has fished in major venues –big-game and inshore -- in North, Central, and South America for 40 years, and has been a charterboat captain and guide in Boothbay Harbor, Maine since 1971.

Deborah Hadden
Deputy Port Director, Massachusetts Port Authority

Ms. Deborah Hadden’s primary responsibilities involve strategic planning for the Port of Boston, development and leasing of Massport’s maritime properties, managing the Boston Harbor Navigation Improvement Project, a joint project with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and working to resolve various maritime environmental, transportation and land use planning issues. Ms. Hadden has also served as Massport’s Manager of Maritime Environmental Affairs and Environmental Permitting Program Manager, and prior to that worked for eight years as an environmental scientist and wetland specialist with Camp Dresser & McKee, a private environmental consulting firm.

Ms. Hadden is involved in numerous professional organizations and boards including The Boston Harbor Association (TBHA) Board of Trustees, TBHA Harbor Use and Environment Committees and the American Association of Port Authorities Harbors, Navigation and Environment Committee. She has a BS degree in Biology from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania and an MS degree in Biology/Environmental Science from Northeastern University in Boston.

James W. Hunt, III
Chief of Environmental and Energy Services, City of Boston

Jim Hunt serves on Mayor Thomas Menino’s Cabinet as Chief for Environmental and Energy Services for the City of Boston. In this capacity, Mr. Hunt is the Mayor’s lead advisor on Environmental and Energy policy and oversees several City agencies including the Inspectional Services Department, the Environment Department, Parks Planning, and Boston’s Recycling Program. Mr. Hunt also serves as a Mayoral Appointee to the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) and as a Trustee on the Boston Groundwater Trust.

Prior to joining the City, Jim Hunt served as Assistant Secretary for the Commonwealth’s Executive Office of Environmental Affairs (EOEA) and was responsible for administering the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act (MEPA). As administrator of the Commonwealth’s MEPA program, Mr. Hunt was in charge of major project reviews for the state including downtown waterfront development, MBTA transit projects, and energy projects such as Cape Wind. Jim Hunt served on Governor Romney’s Ocean Management Task Force and on the Environmental Oversight Committee for the Central Artery/Tunnel Project.

An attorney, Mr. Hunt received his Juris Doctorate from Suffolk University Law School and his Bachelors Degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Jim Hunt is a lifelong resident of Dorchester, where he lives with his wife Robin, daughter Ella and son Matthew.

Greg McGregor
Founding Partner, McGregor & Associates, PC

Gregor I. McGregor, Esq. is a founding partner of the Boston environmental law firm of McGregor & Associates, P.C. His cases in court during 30 years in practice have broken new ground in the law of environmental impact statements, wetland and floodplain protection, hazardous waste liability, land preservation, Home Rule environmental legislation, and the constitutional doctrine of "taking without compensation."

As a member of government task forces and advisory groups, such as the Massachusetts Hazardous Waste Advisory Committee, Mr. McGregor has assisted in drafting or implementing environmental statutes and regulations on hazardous waste cleanups, toxic tort liability, emergency management, underground tanks, agency enforcement, environmental review procedures, tidelands and waterways, wetlands protection, and wildlife. Prior to working in private practice beginning in 1975, Mr. McGregor was an Assistant Attorney General and the first Chief of the Division of Environmental Protection in Massachusetts. Since then he has been a leading environmental attorney in New England.

Mr. McGregor has written and spoken widely on environmental subjects. He is Editor of the authoritative two-volume treatise, Massachusetts Environmental Law; Contributing Editor to the Business & Legal Reports, Inc. monthly newsletter, Environmental Compliance in Massachusetts; and writes the Massachusetts chapters for Mathew-Bender's treatises on Brownfields and on State Environmental Law. He is a co-founder of the national Environmental Law Network linking specialty law firms to better serve their clients.

Mr. McGregor served twice as President of the Massachusetts Association of Conservation Commissions (MACC) and was presented the Environmental Leadership Award by the New England Environmental Network, the Environmental Merit Award by EPA, and the National Wetlands Award by the Environmental Law Institute. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School. The legal directory Martindale-Hubbell has given Mr. McGregor its highest rating. (AV).

Betsy Nicholson
Regional Coastal Management Specialist, NOAA Coastal Services Center

Betsy Nicholson received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Williams College, 1995 and her Masters in Coastal Environmental Management from Duke University, 2001. Ms. Nicholson came to NOAA as a Sea Grant Fellow in 2000 with the Coastal Ocean Program, focusing on incorporating social science into competitive research grants. She served as the National Ocean Service representative to the NOAA leadership team for 2 years, and as the NOAA Policy Advisor to the Secretary of Commerce for 8 months before moving north. She is now positioned as the NOAA Northeast Regional Coastal Program Specialist based at UNH, where she serves as the liaison to state coastal programs and oversees ocean and coastal management grants, planning and projects on a regional scale. Ms. Nicholson also serves as the NOAA regional point of contact on Integrated Ocean Observing System initiatives, coordinates federal interagency support for the state-initiated Northeast Regional Ocean Council, represents NOAA on the Gulf of Maine Council Working Group, and conducts “NOAA in New England” forums among NOAA leadership based in the region.

David O'Connor
Commissioner, Massachusetts Division of Energy Resources

[Bio pending]

Jackie Odell
Executive Director, Northeast Seafood Coalition

[Bio pending]

Robbin Peach
Executive Director, Massachusetts Environmental Trust

A founder of the Massachusetts Ocean Partnership Fund, Robbin Peach has been involved in marine-related issues for over fifteen years. With a long-standing commitment to leveraging public-private partnerships for the environment, Ms. Peach launched the Commonwealth’s first environmental “right whale” license plate, helped create the National Large Whale Conservation Fund, and seeded a collaborative initiative for wetlands conservation. She also co-founded the Water Funders Alliance within Environmental Grantmakers Association. Since 1990, Ms. Peach has been Executive Director of the Massachusetts Environmental Trust, an environmental philanthropy involved in both traditional grantmaking and “high engagement philanthropy”. Prior to coming to the Trust, Robbin worked for the City of Boston as senior planner for the Boston Redevelopment Authority and as director of urban design for the City of Boston's Public Facilities Department. She was also Executive Director of the Fort Point Arts Community where she worked on major zoning and downtown master planning as well as developing the nation’s largest artist live-work space - Brickbottom Artists Project.
Ms. Peach has served on many ocean-related boards, these include: Massachusetts Ocean Management Task Force; Massachusetts Marine Protected Areas Task Force; National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis Working Group on Ocean Zoning; Stellwagen Bank Administration Task Force; Leadership Council of the New Bedford Whaling Museum; Vice-president of Albatross Fund - a philanthropy focused on sustainable community involvement in marine resources of Galapagos, Ecuador. Ms. Peach recently received a Masters in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where she was awarded a 2006 Robert F. Bradford Fellowship for “Excellence in Public Service”. She also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in horticulture and a Master of Arts in Landscape Design with a focus on land-use planning.

Mark Rasmussen
Executive Director, Coalition for Buzzards Bay

Mark Rasmussen has been Executive Director/Baykeeper at The Coalition for Buzzards Bay since 1998. Prior to joining the Coalition, Mark was Regional Planner at the Buzzards Bay Project National Estuary Program where his work focused on watershed land use planning and conservation. He is the Founder and Past President of the Fairhaven-Acushnet Land Preservation Trust and until recently was an elected member of the Fairhaven Planning Board. Mr. Rasmussen is a graduate of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government with a Masters in Public Administration and received his Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Environmental Studies at Boston College. He has also worked as a Guest Student at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Bud Ris
President, New England Aquarium

[Bio pending]

Leona Roach
Executive Director, Massachusetts Marine Trades Association

Leona S. Roach, Executive Director of the non-profit Massachusetts Marine Trades Association (MMTA), contributes over 20 years of marine industry experience in sales and service management, administration, marketing, business development and training with several Massachusetts-based marinas, boatyards and dealers, Detroit Diesel Corporation and DaimlerChrysler Capital.

As MMTA’s Executive Director, Ms. Roach represents the interests of the $2 Billion dollar Massachusetts recreational marine industry whose members include yacht dealers and brokers, boat builders, marinas, boatyards, surveyors, insurers, financiers and marine service personnel.

She has extensive public speaking, business writing and communications experience and has worked in cooperation with or been a member of many leading marine industry associations throughout her career including the MMTA, Yacht Brokers Association of America, Advisory Council of Marine Associations, Passenger Vessel Association and the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers International Marine Transit Association, International Women in Boating, National Women's Sailing Association, South Shore Women’s Business Network and the Boston Harbor Associates.

Ms. Roach is a graduate of Wellesley College and resides on the South Shore.

Andrew Rosenberg
Professor, University of New Hampshire - Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans & Space

Dr. Andrew Rosenberg is a Professor in the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space at the University of New Hampshire where, prior to April 2004, he was dean of the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture. Over the past three years he has also been a member of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy. Prior to coming to UNH he was the Deputy Director of NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service from 1998-2000, the senior career position in the agency. As Deputy Director he dealt with policy decisions on science and resource management issues nationwide as well as the administration of the agency. He was also a principle agency spokesperson before Congress, the public and technical audiences. Before becoming NMFS Deputy Director, Dr. Rosenberg was the NMFS Northeast Regional Administrator. In addition, he was a stock assessment scientist with the National Marine Fisheries Service including responsibility for chairing assessment reviews around the country and participating in assessment reviews internationally. He also has served as the U.S. lead representative in several international fishery management organizations such as NAFO, NASCO and FAO.

Dr. Rosenberg’s scientific work is in the field of population dynamics, resource assessment and resource management policy. He holds a BS in Fisheries Biology from the University of Massachusetts, an MS in Oceanography from Oregon State University and a PhD in Biology from Dalhousie University. He was on the faculty of Imperial College of Science and Technology in London for six years and was the Deputy Director of the Renewable Resources Assessment Group, an internationally known quantitative analysis and policy consultancy group. He currently also serves as the Senior Vice President of MRAG Americas, a consulting company with offices in Florida, Massachusetts and affiliated with MRAG, a London-based international marine resource consultancy.

Brian Rothschild
Professor, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth - School for Marine Science and Technology

[Bio pending]

Sue Tierney
Managing Principal, The Analysis Group

Dr. Susan F. Tierney is an expert on energy policy, regulation and economics. Her areas of expertise include gas and electric markets, gas and electric regulatory policy, market monitoring, competitive resource procurements, resource planning and analysis, regional transmission organizations, the siting of generation and transmission and natural gas facilities, electric system reliability, energy infrastructure investment policy, and environmental policy and regulation. She previously served as the Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Energy (appointed by President Clinton), the Secretary for Environmental Affairs in Massachusetts (appointed by Governor Weld), Commissioner at the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (appointed by Governor Dukakis), and executive director of the Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Council.
Prior to joining The Analysis Group, she was Senior Vice President at Lexecon. Dr. Tierney taught at the University of California at Irvine, and she earned her PhD and MA degrees in regional planning at Cornell University and her BA at Scripps College. She serves on a number of boards of directors and advisory committees, including the National Commission on Energy Policy and the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Enhancing the Robustness and Resilience of Electrical Transmission and Distribution in the United States to Terrorist Attack. She is a director of Catalytica Energy Systems, Inc., the Energy Foundation, Clean Air – Cool Planet, the Northeast States Clean Air Foundation, and the Climate Policy Center; and a member of the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust Advisory Council, and the Environmental Advisory Council of the New York Independent System Operator. She recently chaired the Massachusetts Ocean Management Task Force, and authored the recent report to the Massachusetts Special LNG Commission.

Bruce Tobey
City Councilor, City of Gloucester

A 1975 graduate of Wesleyan University, majoring in Russian, Bruce Tobey is a cum laude graduate of Suffolk University Law School (1978), where he was a member of Law Review. After serving as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Coast Guard Judge Advocate General Corps (1978 - 1982), he returned to his hometown of Gloucester, Massachusetts as the City’s General Counsel. This was followed by service as an attorney with the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, where he headed the General Law Department.

Bruce Tobey was elected Mayor of Gloucester in 1993 and served for nine years. He had previously served on the Gloucester City Council (1987-90) and the Gloucester School Committee (1992-93), and in 1991 was chosen by his City Council colleagues to fill an unexpired term as Mayor, serving eleven months. During his time as Mayor, Mr. Tobey was a member of the Board of Directors of the National League of Cities and was chair of NLC’s Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Steering Committee. He represented NLC on EPA’s Microbial and Disinfection By-Products federal advisory committee and co-chaired a task force on state and local concerns regarding the regulation of non-point source discharges. Mr. Tobey was also a member of EPA’s Local Government Advisory Commission, a position in which he continues to serve. He testified before committees of both Houses of the United States Congress on a variety of infrastructure regulatory and financing issues and was a panelist at a United Nations Conference on sustainable communities.

Other forums of involvement during his Mayoral service included the Urban Water Council of the United States Conference of Mayors, the Massachusetts Clean Water Council (of which he is a past Chair), the Governor’s Massachusetts Seaport Advisory Council, the board of the Massachusetts Interlocal Insurance Association and the Massachusetts Mayors Association.

Bruce Tobey completed his mayoral tenure on January 1, 2002. He then joined Aquarion Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut as its Director of Business Development, a newly created position which comes on the heels of a corporate restructuring intended to allow Aquarion to more actively embrace market opportunities in the non-regulated water sector. His focus is on administering and providing legal guidance to the marketing and servicing of homeowner environmental warranty plans.

In May 2005, Bruce Tobey received an MBA degree from the Sawyer School of Management of Suffolk University. He returned to local government in January 2006,after winning election as a Councilor-at-Large in Gloucester; he chairs the Ordinances and Administration Standing Committee of the City Council.

Greg Watson
Vice President for Sustainable Development & Renewable Energy, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative

Greg Watson is currently Vice-President for Sustainable Development and Renewable Energy at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC) where he directs MTC’s Offshore Wind Energy Collaborative and the Cape & Islands Offshore Wind Public Outreach Initiative. From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Watson served as Program Director for the newly created Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust. Prior to that, from 1995-1999, Mr. Watson served as Executive Director of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, a Roxbury-based community planning organization. As Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Food and Agriculture (1990 to 1993), he oversaw sustainable agriculture initiatives. From 1983-1989, he served as Assistant Secretary for Science and Technology within the Massachusetts Executive Office of Economic Affairs. Other positions have included Director of Educational Programs with Second Nature, Director of The Nature Conservancy’s Eastern Regional Office, and Executive Director of the New Alchemy Institute.

In addition, Mr. Watson formerly chaired the science department of Charles River Academy and taught environmental science at the Thompson Island Education Center. He is an advisor to The Buckminster Fuller Institute and serves on the Board of Ocean Arks International, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the ecological restoration of our waters. Watson was also a founding member of Clean Air-Cool Planet. He attended Tufts University where he majored in Civil Engineering. He also developed a self-directed program in Environmental Design Science at Campus-Free College in Boston.

Jack Wiggin
Executive Director, Urban Harbors Institute at University of Massachusetts, Boston

Jack Wiggin is the director of the Urban Harbors Institute at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He has overall responsibility for direction and management of the Institute's research and technical assistance projects, outreach, and education programs. The Institute’s mission is to focus its expertise—and that of the university—on the complex, interdisciplinary issues associated with urban waterfronts and the coastal and marine environments. Mr. Wiggin has over 25 years experience providing public policy, planning and management assistance to local, state, national governments and nonprofit organizations in the US and abroad.

Mr. Wiggin teaches in the Environmental, Earth and Ocean Sciences Department, University of Massachusetts Boston and in the Cultural Resource Management Program, University of Victoria, British Columbia. He is currently a member of the Science Advisory Board, Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs; Board of Directors, Environmental Business Council of New England; Massachusetts Wind Energy Working Group; and City of Boston Municipal Harbor Plan Advisory Committee. He is past chairman of the Advisory Council for the Boston Harbor Islands National Park Area and of the Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management Program's Coastal Resources Advisory Board.

Prior to joining the Institute, Mr. Wiggin was chief planner in the Land Use and Environmental Practice Group of the law firm of Robinson & Cole, specializing in the planning and regulatory aspects of waterfront development and coastal resource protection. He was also Senior Environmental Planner with the Connecticut Coastal Management Program. He has a Masters degree in urban studies and planning and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners.

Verna DeLauer
New England Science/Policy Coordinator, COMPASS

Verna DeLauer is the New England Science/Policy Coordinator for COMPASS. She has been connected to the marine policy world through her research as a doctoral student at UNH. She is studying the effectiveness of voluntary versus mandatory collaborations and analyzing how stakeholder values change over the course of collaborative decision-making.

Previously, Ms. DeLauer was the Outreach Coordinator for the NH Coastal Zone Management Program. She also served as Chairperson for the Education Committee of the Gulf of Maine Council and was given an award recognizing her commitment to better education and communication about marine resources.

Stephanie Moura
Executive Director, Massachusetts Ocean Partnership

Stephanie is Director of the Massachusetts Ocean Partnership (“the Partnership” or “MOP”), an independent, broadly representative public-private partnership supporting development and implementation of integrated ocean management for Massachusetts’ coastal oceans.  MOP’s work includes serving as stakeholder forum for collaborative problem solving on difficult ocean management issues and facilitating synthesis and development of processes, data and tools to improve the integration of natural and social science with management.  (More at www.massoceanpartnership.org).  For nearly 20 years Stephanie has worked on marine and coastal resource policy/management issues and has developed complementary experience in managing multi-stakeholder processes.  From 1998 to 2006, she managed large combined sewer overflow (CSO) projects, and the associated public involvement programs, for the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority in accordance with responsibilities under the Clean Water Act to minimize sewage discharges to the Boston Harbor watershed.  Prior to that, she spent six years as a project manager and mediator/facilitator with a Boston-based dispute resolution firm.   Notable multi-stakeholder projects included managing and facilitating a statewide roundtable on beneficial reuse of biosolids (New York) and facilitating a multi-day workshop to explore ecosystem-based management in the Bering Sea.  Stephanie also worked on sustainable fisheries management and habitat issues for a national environmental organization.  She earned her B.A. in Marine Biology/Environmental Policy in 1984 from University of California, Santa Cruz and her M.A. in Urban and Environmental Policy in 1990 from Tufts University.

Nicholas Napoli
Science Program Manager

As Science Program Manager for the Massachusetts Ocean Partnership, Mr. Napoli is responsible for implementing MOP’s program to integrate natural and social science with ocean management planning and decision-making.  This includes supporting the development of an integrated ocean management planning framework, a statewide ocean data network, ecosystem and economic modeling and decision support tools, and indicators of the ocean’s capacity to provide ecosystem services. 

Prior to joining MOP, he managed an independent consulting business providing environmental planning, resource management, GIS, and ecosystem service analysis services.   In this capacity, he partnered with a team to found a consulting business that developed and utilizes technology to quantify ecosystem services, assess their value and establish environmental markets.  During this time, Mr. Napoli also served as GIS Coordinator for Skidmore College, where he managed the Skidmore GIS Center for Interdisciplinary Research.  From 2001 to 2005, Mr. Napoli was an environmental planner and GIS specialist with Wallace, Roberts & Todd (WRT), working on numerous management and development plans for National Park Service properties, community comprehensive plans, open space and conservation plans, and environmental impact statements.  Prior to WRT, Mr. Napoli spent several years with The Conservation Fund developing an indicators report and conservation plan for the Schuylkill Watershed in Pennsylvania.  He also spent several years with the Environmental Protection Agency developing an agency environmental indicators report and data gaps strategy.  He holds a Master of Environmental Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts from Villanova University. 

Howard Krum
Communications/Outreach Manager

As Communications/Outreach Manager for the Massachusetts Ocean Partnership, Howard’s primary responsibility is the development and administration of the overall MOP Strategic Communications Plan.  He will be working closely with the Strategic Communications/Outreach Committee to:  develop outreach information and materials in a variety of media; manage subcontracted communications services, including RFP development; manage media communication/relations in coordination with the Executive Director; prepare and deliver presentations; draft press releases and op-eds; assist in report preparation; and, assist in expanding the partnership in number and diversity.

Howard was born and raised in the Pocono mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania, spending much of his youth on, around, and under the water.  Having been trained as a marine biologist, aquatic animal veterinarian, and science communicator, he has worked at several ocean institutions including the New England Aquarium in Boston, the National Aquarium in Baltimore, the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, and the Georgia Sea Turtle Center where he helped to develop comprehensive communications and outreach programs.  In addition to a degree in veterinary medicine from the University of Pennsylvania, Howard has earned a MS in fish physiology from Southern Illinois University and a MA in science writing from Johns Hopkins University.

Tricia Bonifacio
Administrative Coordinator

As Administrative Coordinator for the Massachusetts Ocean Partnership, Tricia’s primary responsibilities include coordinating day-to-day organizational operations, providing support to the Director and Governing Board, assisting staff, committees and working groups in implementing MOP programs and coordinating financial management with MOP’s fiscal sponsor (UMass-Boston) and the Core Operations Administrator (Third Sector New England). 

Prior to joining MOP, Tricia was an Environmental Educator with Mass Audubon’s Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary.  She has a significant record of volunteer work with elementary schools and youth sports organizations and is an experienced office manager and executive assistant. Tricia holds an MS in Environmental and Occupational Health from California State University and a BS in Education from the University of Massachusetts. 

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