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MISSION PARTICIPANTS 
Sandra Brooke, Ph.D. -- I earned my Bachelors in Biological Sciences from Essex University in England and spent a few years
working in mosquito control before discovering marine biology. My Masters degree (1996) was from the Virginia Institute of Marine
Biology in Virginia, and my PhD (2002) was a joint venture between the University of Southampton in England and Harbor Branch
Oceanographic Institution in Florida. My dissertation research focused on the reproductive ecology of a deepwater scleractinian coral,
Oculina varicosa, which forms large fragile reefs systems at 100m depth along the shelf edge of Florida's Atlantic coast. I am
now a research associate at the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology and am working on various deepwater coral projects in Alaska,
Gulf of Mexico and Florida. Research objectives include habitat characterization, description of reproductive biology, growth rates
and community associations.
Richard Grant Gilmore, Jr., Ph.D is a Fish Ecologist and a Senior Research Scientist at Estuarine Coastal and Ocean Science, Inc. in Vero Beach, Florida Grant was born, Oceanside California. He spent most of early years in TsingTao China, Washington D.C. and Sarasota, FL. He received a BS, in 1969 and an MS in 1972, from the Univ. W. Fla, and a Ph.D. form FIT, in 1988. He worked at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution (Fort Pierce) as research scientist for 27 yrs. (1971-1998. He was a Chief scientist on seven international deep sea expeditions, using JSL submersibles in the tropical western Atlantic, West Indies, Bahama Islands, Cuba and Central America. Co-PI, Galapagos Islands expedition 1995. He was Principal investigator and co-principal investigator on numerous fish studies in estuaries around Florida and Georgia-Carolinas. He has authored 70 scientific publications, including seven book chapters. He was involved with16 Discovery, National Geographic, New Zealand network and NPR educational programs, from 1987-2003. He is active in regional aquatic conservation and fishery management programs including Everglades Restoration, Oculina Coral Bank studies and Indian River Lagoon habitat management and reclamation. Grant worked at NASA/Dynamac Corp. Kennedy Space Center for 5 yrs in marine research and technology development program. He is an Adjunct Professor, at regional state and private universities, FIT, FAU, U. Miami. having graduated three dozen graduate students in marine sciences. His principal work now includes acoustic technology studies on deep reef, coral and artificial reefs, fish reproductive behavior and ecology, freshwater, estuarine and marine ecosystems in tropical Western Atlantic and southeastern United States. These studies are supported by funding from the private, state and federal sources and include expeditions for public education on an international level integrated with research. 
Stacey Harter is currently a fishery biologist at the Panama City NOAA
Fisheries Laboratory. She got her B.S. at Florida State University in
Biology and her M.S. in Marine Science from the University of South Alabama.
One of her research interests is studying the dynamics of juvenile reef fish
recruitment. Specifically, she is interested in examining the spatial and
temporal changes in juvenile lane and gray snapper distribution and
abundance. Another of her main research interests is examining marine
protected areas such as the Oculina reserve as well as several proposed MPAs
in the South Atlantic. For this, she participates in cruises where remotely
operated vehicles, fish traps, benthic grabs, and stationary camera arrays
are deployed in order to examine the effectiveness of such areas.
Sarah Heberling, graduate intern, Deep Water Corals Education & Outreach at NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center in Miami.
She received her B.S. in biology from Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY and is pursuing her Master's in Marine Affairs and Policy at the University
of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science.
Through her 7-month internship with NOAA, she aims to raise local awareness of the unique and fragile ecosystem located within and without the Oculina Bank Habitat Area of Particular Concern. Participating in the second leg of this research expedition is just one of many highlight experiences for her while interning at NOAA. 
Mr. Lance Horn is currently the Operations Director of the South Atlantic Bight/Gulf of Mexico division of the NOAA Undersea Research
Center at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington (NURC/UNCW).
He has worked at NURC/UNCW for 20 years and participated in hundreds of research missions using diving, remotely operated vehicles, and submersible technology. He is the chief remotely operated vehicle (ROV) operator at NURC/UNCW since 1987, and will be one of the two ROV pilots for the Miller mission cruise. 
Jocelyn Karazsia, Ecologist, NOAA Fisheries Habitat Conservation Division in Miami. As the Education and Outreach Coordinator for the Ivory Tree Coral Expedition, she aims to bring deep-water coral science into high school classrooms and to raise local awareness of the ecosystem located within Oculina Bank Habitat Area of Particular Concern. Ms. Karazsia's primary NOAA responsibilities include administration of the Coral Reef Conservation Program in Florida. In addition, she is responsible for Essential Fish Habitat consultations associated with large-scale coastal construction projects. She received a B.S. in Marine Biology from The College of Charleston and earned a Master's in Marine Affairs and Policy at the University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science.
Amanda M. Maness is a current Marine Science graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Amanda's thesis will be investigating the use of acoustic seabed classification as a tool for effective benthic habitat assessment for the Oculina Habitat Area of Particular Concern, southeast Florida shelf.
Margaret Miller received an undergraduate degree from Indiana University and a doctorate in marine ecology from the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill). Her dissertation involved ecological studies of shallow-water Oculina spp. off North Carolina and factors that determined their growth and distribution. After three years as a post-doctoral researcher with the University of Miami, she began work for NOAA-Fisheries in 1997. As a coral reef benthic ecologist for the Southeast Fisheries Science Center, she is an active field researcher, primarily in shallow coral reef systems. Along with her long standing interest in Oculina spp. corals, her current research foci include coral restoration, coral early life history, and population studies of threatened elkhorn and stagorn corals and their threats. 
Lance Morgan, Ph.D. , is Chief Scientist with Marine Conservation Biology Institute in Glen Ellen, California. He serves as program manager for MCBI's west coast marine protected areas (MPA) activities, deep-sea coral mapping, and the impacts of destructive fishing practices. He is currently an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington, in the School of Marine Affairs. Dr. Morgan and colleagues at MCBI recently published "Priority Marine Conservation Areas: Baja California to the Bering Sea". He served as guest editor for a recent publication of "Current: the Journal of Marine Education" and issue solely dedicated to Deep-sea corals. Dr. Morgan's research experience with marine mammals, fishes, and invertebrates gives him exceptional scientific breadth. He has field experience from many sites along the Pacific coast of North America. His extensive scuba-diving experience includes missions as an Aquanaut at the Aquarius Habitat in Key Largo, Florida.
Tara Novakowski is a 2001 graduate of UNCW with a degree in Environmental Science. After several years of working various jobs across the country and a recent thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail, she has returned to Wilmington and is currently the NURC Archivist at the Center for Marine Science.
John K. Reed Is Co-Principal Investigator- NOAA/NURC Oculina Coral Expedition -- He is in the Division of Biomedical Marine Research (DBMR) at
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution (HBOI).John Reed is co-Principal Investigator on the 2005 NOAA/NURC Oculina Expedition, "Ivory Tree Coral
Expedition: Assessing the Effectiveness of the Oculina Deep Coral Reserve." John is senior scientist at DBMR and heads the Sample Acquisition and
Taxonomy Program for biomedical research to discover pharmaceutically active compounds from marine organisms.
He is chief scientist for DBMR, supervising and organizing >60 worldwide collection expeditions for biomedical research with HBOI's research vessels, submersibles, and land-based expeditions. He is responsible for curating 30,000 specimens of marine organisms in DBMR's taxonomic museum collection and managing the collection database, photographic library, and videotape library. John is also the Diving Safety Officer for all diving activities from Harbor Branch vessels and by a staff of 60 research divers. He has logged 35 deep-water lockout dives with helium-oxygen from Johnson-Sea-Link submersibles, primarily on the deep-water Oculina reefs, logged >2000 scientific scuba dives, and >150 scientific dives in the Johnson-Sea-Link and Clelia submersibles. John's research on the deep-water Oculina coral banks (http://www.hboi.edu/news/features/oculina.html) off Florida since 1976 has resulted in over 45 publications and the establishment of a 300 sq.mi. Marine Protected Area for these reefs. John received his B.S. from the University of Miami and M.S. specializing in marine ecology from Florida Atlantic University in 1975. 
Mr. Andrew Shepard is currently Director of the NOAA Undersea Research Center at the University of North Carolina- Wilmington. His ocean science interests include: undersea technology development and applications, fish ecology, impacts of fishing gear on seafloor habitats, deep water coral communities, and research on marine protected areas. He has been chief scientist on more than 30 undersea research expeditions, including annual cruises over the past five years to the Oculina Bank, and NURC mission coordinator on dozens more research cruises. He has a BA in Biology from Bates College, and an MS in Marine Science from the University of Massachusetts. Following his education years and prior to sailing into science and program administration, he served as a deck officer on research ships, mixed gas diver, and undersea vehicle (remotely operated robots) pilot and technician. sheparda@uncw.edu
George Sibley has been a film-maker for over 30 years, writing, shooting and editing films mainly on historical and environmental subjects.
Three of his movies about Florida's environment ("Six Fairy Tales About Growth in Florida", "Changing Lanes" and "Phantom Future") were shown on DISH Network's "Free Speech TV" in April, June and July.
He recently completed a film about American attitudes toward land and natural resources ("Lewis and Clark and Us"), and will join the cruise to shoot material for a documentary called "Fragile Forests of the Deep".
Ask your local PBS station about it.
Glenn Taylor is a former engineer who left a good job in the city to become a scuba instructor in the islands. He joined the National Undersea Research Center in St. Croix in 1986 to work on the Aquarius Habitat. For the past 14 years Glenn has been Technical Coordinator for the National Undersea Research Center at UNCW where his job consists of scientific diving, piloting ROVs (remotely operated vehicles), and managing ocean research missions funded through NOAA, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. Since joining NURC, Glenn has added certifications as a Nitrox Instructor, Trimix Technical diver, and Advanced Diver Medical Technician. In 34 years of diving, he has logged over 3,300 dives. |
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