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MERI
55 Main Street
PO Box 1652
Blue Hill, ME 04614
Tel: 207-374-2135
Fax: 207-374-2931
Email: info@meriresearch.org
Web: http://www.meriresearch.org/
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
Ecosystem Monitoring Coordinator:   Meggan Dwyer
Stranding Specialist/ Research Technician:   Kirk Trabant
Administrative/ Communications Associate:   Marty Duncan
Receptionist/Office Assistant:    VJ Stevenson

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/ CEO, Sundberg Associates, Inc.
New York, NY

Board

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

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

Susan S. Leonard
Director, The Birch Wathen Lenox School
New York, NY

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


Pierre Beland, PhD
Chairman, St. Lawrence National Institute
of Ecotoxicology
Montreal, Quebec

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
Olympia, WA

Philip W. Conkling
Executive Director
The Island Institute
Rockland, ME

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

Nona Hendryx
President, Baby Buddha Productions
New York, NY

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

Suzanne B. Hopkins
Journalist, International Affairs
Cambridge, MA

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

Russ Kinne
Aerial/ Marine Mammal Photographer
Explorer Emeritus
New Canaan, CT

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, The Netherlands

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

Christopher Perkins, MS
Associate Director
Environmental Research Institute (ERI)
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT

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

Pamela Stacey
Ocean Futures Society
Playa del Rey, CA

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

 

Advisory Committee on Pollution of the Sea

Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment

International Ocean Institute

North Atlantic Marine Mammal Association

The Society for Marine Mammology

United Nations on Environment and Development

United Nations Economic and Social Council

Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry