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Kaplan Fisher Gilson Konowe

Lundquist Maslin Thorn chairs the NOMEC interagency working

Fisher Maslin group on ocean education.

Genene Fisher, PhD, is Acting Director of Elaine Maslin is an offshore upstream and

NOAA Ocean Exploration and joined the renewables focused journalist, based in

Konowe offce in 2020 as the Deputy Director. She Scotland, covering technologies, from well

Celia Konowe is a college senior from is the co-chair of the interagency NOMEC intervention to subsea robotics.

Reston, Virginia, majoring in environmental

Council. studies at the University of Rochester with

Thorn minors in French and theatre. This past

Gilson Aidan Thorn is the Business Development semester, prior to the COVID-19 lockdown,

Chris Gilson is the CEO of Voyis and has Manager, Marine Robotics, Sonardyne.

she studied abroad in Ecuador through the been with the company since 2013 in past

Universidad de San Francisco Quito as part roles of mechanical engineer and product of its GAIAS (Galápagos Institute for the manager.

Arts and Sciences) program.

Kaplan

Lundquist

Marlene Kaplan, D.Env., is a Senior

Edward Lundquist is a retired naval offcer

Advisor for NOAA’s Offce of Education. who writes on naval, maritime, defense

She was instrumental in creating NOAA’s and security issues. He is a regular

Environmental Literacy Program and the contributor to Maritime Reporter and MTR.

Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship. She co- 6 September/October 2021