SOAR Science Steering Committee (SSC)

Leadership and guidance of the SOAR program is provided by a Science Steering Committee (SSC), formed of senior scientists and Alaskan Native leaders of wildlife management organizations, all with decades-long experience with Pacific Arctic ecosystems.

Robyn Angliss Deputy Director, NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory, Alaska Fisheries Science Center

Carin Ashjian Senior Scientist with Tenure, Biology Research, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Taqulik Hepa Director, Dept of Wildlife Management, North Slope Borough,

Christopher Clark Director, Bioacoustic Research, Cornell University

J. Craig George Senior Wildlife Biologist, Department of Wildlife Management, North Slope Borough

Jackie Grebmeier Research Professor, U.of Maryland Center for Env.Science; Arctic Ocean Sciences Board, Internat'l Arctic Science Committee

Chad Jay Research Ecologist, Alaska Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey

Vera Metcalf Executive Director, Eskimo Walrus Commission, Native Representative, Marine Mammal Commission

Tim Ragen Executive Director, Marine Mammal Commission

Tom Weingartner Professor, Physical Oceanography, School of Fisheries & Ocean Sciences, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks

Robert Suydam Senior Wildlife Biologist, Department of Wildlife Management, North Slope Borough

SOAR Principal Investigators, advisory, active in SSC

Phyllis Stabeno Physical Oceanographer, NOAA, OAR Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory

Sue Moore Research Scientist, NOAA Fisheries Office of Science & Technology