board and advisors

Sea Studios Foundation recruits and retains numerous top scientists and experts to contribute to individual projects. All share the passion for the Foundation's mission and help to ensure that the highest levels of professionalism, skills, and experience are incorporated throughout our work.

Mark Shelley, Executive Director
David Elisco, VP, Creative Affairs
Dennis Long, Director, Business Affairs
Daniella Russo, Executive Vice President
P.J. Simmons, Director, Strategy & Programs
Tierney Thys, Ph.D., Director, Research

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Steven Webster, Ph.D(Chairperson/President)
Senior Marine Biologist, Monterey Bay Aquarium

Steven J. Dennis
Retired Software Executive and Entrepreneur

John Pearse, Ph.D
Emeritus, Research Professor of Biology, University of California Santa Cruz

Rachel L. White
Vice President, New America Foundation

Cynthia Vernon (Secretary)
Vice President of Education and Conservation Programs, Monterey Bay Aquarium

Advisory Board, Strange Days on Planet Earth (Season Two)

Richard T. Barber, Ph.D., Harvey W. Smith Professor of Oceanography (retired), Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University

Dan Barstow, Director, Center for Science Teaching and Learning, TERC

Paul Boyle Ph.D., CEO and Chairman, The Ocean Project

Judy Braus, Vice President, Education and Centers, National Audubon Society

Andrew Dobson, Ph.D., Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University

Robert B. Dunbar, Ph.D., Professor of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University

Sylvia Earle Ph.D., National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence

John Francis, Ph.D., Vice President of Research, Conservation, and Exploration, National Geographic

Nancy Knowlton Ph.D., Sant Chair of Marine Science at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Director of the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation (CMBC), Professor of Marine Biology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego

Rebecca Lewison, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Ecology, San Diego State University

Thomas E. Lovejoy, Ph.D., President, The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment

Jane Lubchenco, Ph.D., Wayne and Gladys Valley Professor of Marine Biology and Distinguished Professor of Zoology, Oregon State University

Harold A. Mooney, Ph.D., Paul S. Achilles Professor of Environmental Biology and Population Biology, Stanford University

Ron Keith O’Dor, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Census of Marine Life (COML), Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education (CORE)

Stephen Palumbi, PhD, Professor Biological Science, Stanford University

Sandra Postel, Director of the Global Water Policy Project and Visiting Senior Lecturer in Environmental Studies, Mount Holyoke College

Andrew Rosenberg, Ph.D., Professor of Ocean Process and Analysis Laboratory, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, University of New Hampshire

Steve H. Schneider, Ph.D., Professor of Biological Sciences, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Co-Director Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources, Stanford University

Michael Sutton, Vice President and Director, Center for the Future of the Oceans, Monterey Bay Aquarium