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Kevin Banks is acting director of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil and Gas. As a petroleum economist at the Division of Oil and Gas, he managed the Alaska royalty in-kind program. Banks has worked for Minerals Management Service as an economist, and directed several engineering assessments of technologies required to develop oil and gas on the Alaska Outer Continental Shelf. He has an M.A. in economics from Washington State University and a B.S. in economics/philosophy from Loyola University Los Angeles.
Joe Childers is president of United Fishermen of Alaska, and vice-chair of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council Advisory Panel. He is director of Western Gulf of Alaska Fishermen, and has fished commercially in Alaska and Hawaii. Childers has also worked as a journalist, a permit broker, an economic and regulatory consultant, and a fisheries lobbyist. He has a B.S. from the University of Wyoming.
Bubba Cook is senior Bering Sea fisheries program officer for the World Wildlife Fund. He has worked in fisheries management with NOAA Fisheries and Trustees for Alaska, and as an environmental laboratory technician. He served in the U.S. Navy and is Advisory Council member for the Tribal Education Initiative Natural Resource Career Program. He earned his J.D. degree from Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College and a B.S. from Texas A&M University.
Marilyn Crockett is executive director of the Alaska Oil and Gas Association. She joined AOGA in 1970. AOGA is a private nonprofit trade association whose mission is to foster the long-term viability of the oil and gas industry in Alaska. Crockett has served as AOGA’s administrator, exploration and production affairs representative, manager for environmental affairs, and deputy director. She also is on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Resource Development Council for Alaska.
Justine Gundersen is administrator for the Nelson Lagoon Tribal Council, and has lived in Nelson Lagoon for over thirty years. She is an advisory member and voting member of the Aleutians East Borough Assembly, and serves on several related boards. As a salmon fisherman she has drifted, set net, and seined, and currently holds a drift permit in Area M.
Troy Johnson chairs the board of the Aleut Corporation, the regional Native corporation for the Aleutian Islands. _Johnson is a shareholder of the corporation, which is based in Anchorage. _He is a former vice president and general manager of Process Controls Incorporated, South Pacific division of Caltrol Incorporated, in Hawaii.
Stanley Mack is Mayor of the Aleutians East Borough, and a board member of the Aleut Corporation. He is a commercial and subsistence fisherman. He was born and raised in King Cove, Alaska, and has lived on the Alaska Peninsula all his life.
Stephanie Madsen is executive director of the At-Sea Processors Association. She has served as chair of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council and vice president of Pacific Seafood Processors Association. She represented onshore seafood processors in Dutch Harbor, where she lived for 18 years before relocating to Juneau. She holds a teaching degree from the University of Arizona.
Shirley Marquardt is Mayor of Unalaska, and served ten years on the Unalaska City Council. She is the port operations manager for Samson Tug and Barge in Dutch Harbor. Since 1999, Marquardt has been a member of the American Seafoods Community Advisory Board. She also serves on the Alaska Municipal League Finance Committee, is a member of the Fisheries Committee for the Southwest Alaska Municipal Conference, and serves on the Alaska Marine Transportation Advisory Board.
Gregg Nady is the Alaska Exploration Team Leader for Shell Exploration & Production Company. He has worked for Shell for 25 years, in contract negotiation, acquisition and divestments, regulatory and permitting, financial administration, new business development, and exploration. For the past 2.5 years, he has provided information to North Aleutian Basin stakeholders about the offshore oil and gas industry and Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act planning, especially the 35 year track record in environmental protection, technology, regulatory and oversight, discharges, impacts of seismic on fish, shellfish and marine mammals, oil spill prevention, and oil spill response.
Daniel O’Hara is Mayor of the Bristol Bay Borough. He advises the Federal Subsistence Management Program, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Eric Olson is chair of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, and has chaired the council’s Advisory Panel. He is a lifelong Bristol Bay commercial salmon fisherman, is employed by Kwik’pak Fisheries, which buys and processes Yukon River chinook and chum salmon, and worked for 10 years for the Bristol Bay Economic Development Corporation. Olson was born and raised in Dillingham, Alaska, and is a Bristol Bay Native Corporation shareholder. He earned a B.A. in management and a B.A. in accounting from the University of Alaska Anchorage.
Brent Paine is the executive director of United Catcher Boats. UCB is a fishing vessel owner trade association based in Seattle, representing 65 catcher vessels in the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands, Gulf of Alaska, and West Coast trawl fisheries (primarily pollock) and Bering Sea crab fishery. In 1991-1993, Paine worked as staff of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council. He received an M.S. in fisheries management at Oregon State University and an undergraduate degree from St. Olaf College.
Bill Popp is president and CEO of the Anchorage Economic Development Corporation. He served as special assistant to the mayor of the Kenai Peninsula Borough (KPB), and was president of the KPB Assembly. He is on the board of the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce, and is on the Anchorage School District Education and Workforce Advisory Commission. He has been a small business owner, and served on numerous other Alaska boards and task forces.
Alice Ruby is Mayor of the City of Dillingham and president of the Bristol Bay Coastal Resource Service Area Board. She is program manager for the Economic Development and Permit Brokerage, Bristol Bay Economic Development Corporation. Ruby worked 20 years for Choggiung Ltd., the Dillingham, Portage Creek, and Ekuk Native Village Corporation, as land manager and director of operations. She is a board member and secretary/treasurer of the Southwest Alaska Municipal Conference, and an advisor to the Nushagak/Mulchatna Wood/Tikchik Land Trust. She has a bachelor's degree in urban and regional planning from Western Washington University.
Dale Schwarzmiller is vice president of Alaska production for Peter Pan Seafoods. He started his career in the fish business in 1977 as a process worker in Sand Point, Alaska. He has been with Peter Pan since 1985, including 20 years as plant manager at the King Cove facility. He is a graduate of Western Washington University.
Dan Sharp joined Minerals Management Service as a fisheries biologist in May 2007 after he retired from Alaska Department of Fish and Game. At retirement, he was regional management biologist for the Division of Sportfish for Bristol Bay, Kodiak, and the Alaska Peninsula. With ADFG he spent 12 years in Cordova, on fisheries damage assessment following the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and managing the commercial seine and gillnet fisheries of Prince William Sound and Copper River. Sharp also was a domestic groundfish observer in the Gulf of Alaska, and a foreign fisheries observer in the Bering Sea.
Tiel Smith is land and resource manager of the Bristol Bay Native Corporation. He was raised in Dillingham and earned a B.S. degree from Utah State University. He taught school in the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District for four years. He also worked as a computer trainer for the health corporation in Dillingham and was part of the telehealth system for the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium. He fishes commercially in the Kvichak River.
Jan-Oddvar Sørnes is associate professor at Bodø Graduate School of Business at Bodø University. His research area is the use of information and communication technologies in organizations, especially energy management. He coordinates the joint Master of Science in Energy Management program between Bodø University and Moscow University of Foreign Affairs. Sørnes has a Ph.D. from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, a master’s degree from Michigan State University in telecommunications management, and a degree from the University of Idaho in broadcast journalism.
Ken Taylor is deputy commissioner of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. He oversees issues affecting wildlife, habitat, the Board of Game, the Endangered Species Act, and the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA). Taylor’s previous service with ADFG includes deputy director of the Division of Wildlife Conservation, and director of the Division of Habitat Restoration. Taylor has a B.S. in biological sciences, with an emphasis on wildlife management, from Colorado State University.
Arni Thomson is executive director of the Alaska Crab Coalition. He is secretary of the Pacific Northwest Crab Industry Advisory Committee, and is on the Advisory Panel, North Pacific Research Board; Crab Observer Oversight Task Force; Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, Shellfish Committee; and Executive Committee, United Fishermen of Alaska. He was a deckman in the Gulf of Alaska halibut fishery, and relief deckman in Bering Sea crab fisheries. He has an M.A. in history, and a B.A. in business and economics, and post-secondary education.
Denis Wiesenburg is dean of the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He was a civilian oceanographer for the Naval Ocean Research and Development Activity, associate director of the Geochemical and Environmental Research Group at Texas A&M University, and chair of the Department of Marine Science at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is a graduate of Duke University, and earned an M.S. in chemical oceanography from Old Dominion University and a Ph.D. in oceanography from Texas A&M University. |
