GoMOOS is undergoing an organizational change designed to sharpen its focus and leverage its experience and reputation. Those served by GoMOOS data will notice many improvements in our ability to provide up-to-date weather and oceanographic conditions in the Gulf of Maine. These many thousands regularly download real-time and historical ocean observations from GoMOOS.org, accounting for over 1.5 million page-views per year. Our goal is to keep guaranteed access to the ocean data from the observing system that gave us our start, while adding new types of real-time and retrospective environmental information services developed through a growing number of data sources and partnerships.
Directors and officers of GoMOOS are individuals who have been selected for their strategic contributions to the organization, their passion for its core functions and their desire to support its mission. Meet the new GoMOOS Board of Directors: |
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Evan Richert, President
Evan is a land use planner by training and profession. His interests are in regional and urban land use planning, including suburban sprawl, coastal resources, ocean life and governmental systems. He was Director of the Maine State Planning Office, the policy and planning arm of state government in the areas of natural and coastal resources, community planning, economy, energy, and governmental affairs. He was the former director of the Maine State Planning Office and became aware of ocean observing through the NOAA-funded Pen Bay project. He was integral in the development of GoMOOS, serving as President of the Board of Directors since 1999.
Evan is an associate professor at University of Southern Maine Muskie School of Public Service |
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Elizabeth Butler, Vice President
Lib served for four years as Chief Counsel to Maine Governor Angus King where she was responsible for managing all legal matters pending before the Office of the Governor and served as a member of the Governor’s senior management team. Several of her key achievements as lead counsel included negotiation of a landmark agreement to remove the Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River, joint management of the Atlantic Salmon Task Force to develop the Maine Atlantic Salmon Conservation Plan, and management of the Governor’s judicial nomination process.
As a partner at Pierce Atwood, Lib assists businesses with start-up and expansion projects by providing the full range of legal services needed by growing companies. Lib also advises clients on administrative and environmental law issues. |
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David Cyr, Treasurer
David is the Secretary-Treasurer for Portland Pipe Line Corporation and its parent company, Montreal Pipe Line Limited. Portland Pipe Line owns and operates one of the largest crude oil terminals on the east coast, and together with its parent company, owns and operates a pipeline system that extends from South Portland, Maine to Montreal, Quebec. David has been employed by Portland Pipe Line for the past 25 years and has extensive experience managing the corporation's business and financial affairs. Prior to joining Portland Pipe Line, he worked in the energy industry in Alaska and Texas and is a Certified Public Accountant.
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Philip Conkling, Secretary
Philip’s focus has been to provide strategic, creative and developmental leadership for the Island Institute. He oversees a staff of approximately 40 in the Institute's publications, marine, education and community development programs and 12-14 Island Fellows who live and work in isolated and rural coastal communities. As part of his work, he has traveled extensively on voyages to Arctic and sub Arctic regions of both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans and written extensively on the effects of global warming on coastal villages, fishing fleets and ecosystems of northern regions. In particular, he has been interested in how the changes in the northern North Atlantic will affect marine and coastal life on the islands and coast of Maine.
Philip is the founder and president of the Island Institute |
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Dr. Melbourne Briscoe
Mel was the Office of Naval Research program manager to GoMOOS. He is an architect of IOOS, which shaped the philosophy and understanding of the role of interoperability and data sets in an integrated ocean observing system. He guided GoMOOS in the early days, has since retired from the Federal government and is now a consultant.
Mel is the CEO and President of OceanGeeks, LLC |
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Paul Currier
Paul is the Watershed Bureau Administrator for the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services. Paul represents the Gulf of Maine Ocean Data Partnership.
Paul is the Watershed Bureau Administrator for the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services |
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Donald Perkins, Jr
Don brings an unusual mix of private sector and not-profit sector experience to GoMOOS. He has instructed at the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School, directed the Marine Conservation Corps in California, served as a financial advisor to Native American tribes; and managed the operations of Binax, Inc. He has also served on the boards of the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment, the Maine Department of Marine Resources Advisory Council, and the Maine Legislature’s Task Force on the Development of Aquaculture. He was co-founder of Friends of Casco Bay.
As president of the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Don works with GMRI’s board of directors and management team to drive GMRI’s evolution as a strategic science, education, community institution serving the Gulf of Maine bioregion. |
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Mark Reichardt
Mark joined the Open Geospatial Consortium in November 2000 as Director of Marketing and Public Sector Programs; became the President of OGC and a member of the Board of Directors in September, 2004; and was appointed President and CEO in January 2008. Before joining the OGC, Mr. Reichardt was involved in technology modernization and production programs for the US Government, both with the DoD and with Vice President Gore's National Partnership for Reinventing Government where he managed a program to illustrate how the use of geospatial information and technologies could improve local to federal government coordination.
Mark is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. |
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Dr. Robert Stephenson
Rob has been a research scientist for 25 years with the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceanography. He is involved in stock assessment, more recently involved in the use of science in integrated management. He is very interested in conservation with social and economic objectives. He is trying to reshape science to be relevant to management.
Rob is the director of the St. Andrews Biological Station - Department of Fisheries and Oceanography |
