NOAA 95-R502
NOAA NAMES NEW SEA GRANT PANEL MEMBERS
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has appointed three new members to three-year terms on the National Sea Grant Review panel, the Commerce Department announced today.
The panel is an independent, 15-member citizens advisory committee made up of individuals with diverse backgrounds in marine affairs that advises the secretary of Commerce, NOAA's under secretary for oceans and atmosphere, and the director of the National Sea Grant College Program on scientific and administrative policy.
The new members sworn in March 9 are: John Arrington, associate vice president for research and graduate studies and professor of biology at South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, S.C.; Walter Hartman, retired General Motors Corporation division supervisor, Olcott, N.Y.; and Roger Hanson, professor emeritus at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, Ala.
Arrington serves on the governor's math-science advisory board and chairs the education council for the South Carolina Universities Research and Education Foundation.
Hanson is co-chairman of the program coordinating team and the chairman of the fellowship committee for the Mississippi- Alabama Sea Grant Consortium.
Hartman is a member of the New York State Environmental Conservation Advisory Committee to Senator John B. Daly and serves as the New York State/Lake Ontario sportfishery advisor to the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission.
Other panel members are (alphabetically): Fernando E. Agrait, an attorney and law professor, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Marne A. Dubs, consultant, New Canaan, Conn.; Carlos Fetterolf Jr., executive advisor to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Otto Klima, retired vice president and division general manager, General Electric Co., Jamesville, Va.; Geraldine Knatz, director of planning for the Port of Long Beach, Calif.; Elaine Walker Knight, co-owner and manager of Knight's Seafood in Brunswick, Ga.; Frank L. Kudrna Jr., president, Kudrna & Associates Ltd., Westmont, Ill.; Arthur E. Maxwell, director, Institute of Geophysics, University of Texas, Austin, Texas; Jeffrey Stephan, manager of the United Fishermen's Marketing Association Inc., Kodiak, Alaska; Gregory Switlik Sr., vice president, Switlik Parachute Co. Inc., Trenton, N.J.; John S. Toll (chair-elect), president, Universities Research Association, Washington, D.C.; and Grace M. Wever (chair), vice president, Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, N.Y.
Established by Congress in 1966, the National Sea Grant College Program is a government, university, private sector partnership dedicated to the development and wise use of the nation's ocean, coastal and Great Lakes resources. The program sponsors marine research, education, and technology transfer through a nationwide network of colleges and universities.
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