Chris Elfring is Executive Director of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS)’s Gulf Research Program. Her role, with guidance from a carefully selected Advisory Group, is to guide the program’s planning and initial implementation, building from the general requirements in ...

Dr. Appeaning is the Deputy Secretary for the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality. Dr. Appeaning attended Southern University and A & M College where he graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Urban Forestry, a Master of ...

Nanette Holland is the Public Outreach Coordinator for the Tampa Bay Estuary Program. She is responsible for communicating the program’s goals and successes to the media and the public, and for developing strategies to improve community awareness of bay problems ...