Appendix A

Committee and Staff Biographies

COMMITTEE

Luiz Barbieri (Co-chair) is the Science and Research Director for the Marine Fisheries Research Program at Florida’s Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, based out of St. Petersburg, Florida. He has an extensive background in marine fisheries science and policy and serves as a key representative on several scientific advisory panels and committees including the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, the Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) for both the Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic Fishery Management Councils, and as a senior advisor to the Fisheries Leadership and Sustainability Forum, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University. Dr. Barbieri received a B.S. in biology from Santa Ursula University, an M.S. in biological oceanography from Rio Grande University, and a Ph.D. in marine fisheries science from the College of William and Mary.

Cynthia M. Jones (Co-chair) is a professor and eminent scholar in the Ocean, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences department of Old Dominion University. Her research interests include demography of fish based on age evaluation, stock assessment, recreational angler surveys, simulation modeling, and quantitative statistics. Dr. Jones has been the recipient of multiple awards and honors, including AAAS Fellow, Outstanding Virginia Scientist, Outstanding Professor, and Fulbright Senior Scholar Award. Dr. Jones served on the National Research Council (NRC) Ocean Studies Board from 2005 to 2007. She was also a member of multiple previous NRC studies, including the Committee for Review of the National Marine Fisheries Service: Use of Science and Data in Management and Litigation, which she chaired. Dr. Jones received her B.A. in zoology from

Boston University. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in oceanography from the University of Rhode Island.

Jill A. Dever is Senior Survey Statistician at RTI International in Washington, DC. Her current research interests include statistical and methodological issues for dual-frame random-digit-dial and address-based sample surveys, along with nonprobability studies and survey weight calibration with estimated population value. In addition, her experience includes creating software for optimizing complex sample designs; constructing linearization and replicating analysis weights using calibration techniques; and analyzing data from complex surveys. To date, she has worked on a variety of surveys that address pertinent issues of our times in the areas of health care, education, and the U.S. military. Dr. Dever received her B.S. in mathematics from the University of Louisville, located in her hometown. She received her M.S. in biostatistics from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and her Ph.D. in survey methodology from the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland College Park.

David Haziza is a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the Université de Montréal. His research interests include theory and application of survey sampling, and specifically, inference in the presence of missing data or influential units, resampling methods, and calibration. Dr. Haziza received his Ph.D. in statistics from Carleton University.

Jeffrey C. Johnson is a professor of anthropology at the University of Florida. His research interests include network models of complex biological systems and the application of continuous time Markov chain and exponential random graph models to the study of trophic dynamics in food webs. His most recent work involves the development of methods for the reliable tagging, coding and network modeling of large corpora of related texts. He has published extensively in anthropological, sociological, biological, and marine science journals and was the founding editor of the Journal of Quantitative Anthropology and co-editor of Human Organization. He is currently an associate editor for the Journal of Social Structure and Social Networks. Dr. Johnson received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, Irvine.

Bruce M. Leaman has been the Executive Director of the International Pacific Halibut Commission since 1997. His research interests have included fisheries management, stock assessment, reproductive biology, and population dynamics. Dr. Leaman served on the 2006 National Research Council Committee on Review of Recreational Fisheries Survey Methods. Dr. Leaman received his B.Sc. from Simon Fraser University. He also received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia.

Thomas J. Miller is a professor of fisheries and bioenergetics and population dynamics, as well as the Director of the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory at the University of Maryland’s Center for Environmental Science. Dr. Miller’s research interests include recruitment and population dynamics of aquatic animals, fish early life history, and blue crabs. His relevant National Research Council service includes membership on the Committee on Sustainable Water and Environmental Management in the California Bay-Delta and the Panel to Review California Draft Bay Delta Conservation Plan. He is also currently serving as a member of the Panel on Life Sciences. Dr. Miller received his B.Sc. in human and environmental biology at the University of York. He later received his M.S. at North Carolina State University in ecology and his Ph.D. in zoology, also from North Carolina State University.

Sean P. Powers is a professor and chair of marine sciences at the University of South Alabama and senior marine scientist at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab. His research focuses on the ecology of coastal/estuarine fishes and benthic invertebrates, particularly those that support commercial and recreational fisheries. The goal of his research program is to provide scientifically sound information to direct conservation and restoration efforts of marine fisheries and the habitats that these species rely upon. He has served on one National Research Council committee, the Committee on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Water Resources, Science, Engineering, and Planning. Dr. Powers received his Ph.D. in zoology from Texas A&M University.

Steve Williams is a Senior Program Manager for the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission. Mr. Williams is primarily responsible for program oversight of the Pacific RecFIN database program as well as several other Columbia River and Pacific coast marine projects dealing with salmon and highly migratory species management issues. Mr. Williams spent 39 years as both a fish and a wildlife manager for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. His management experience covers a broad range from field sampling of both marine and freshwater fisheries to a period as Deputy Director of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. He served as the Oregon state representative to the Pacific Fishery Management Council for approximately 5 years. Mr. Williams received his B.S. in fisheries from Oregon State.

STAFF

Susan Roberts became the director of the Ocean Studies Board in April 2004. Dr. Roberts received her Ph.D. in marine biology from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Prior to her position at the Ocean Studies Board, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, and as a senior staff fellow at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Roberts’ research experi-

ence has included fish physiology and biochemistry, marine bacterial symbioses, developmental cell biology, and environmentally induced leukemia. Dr. Roberts specializes in the science and management of living marine resources. She has served as study director for reports produced by the National Research Council on topics covering a broad range of ocean science, marine resource management, and science policy issues. She is a member of the U.S. National Committee for the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and serves on the IOC panel for the Global Ocean Science Report. Dr. Roberts is a member of AAAS, American Geophysical Union, and the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography. She is an elected Fellow of the Washington Academy of Sciences.

Stacee Karras is a program officer with the Ocean Studies Board. She joined the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine in 2012 as a fellow, and served as a research associate for the Ocean Studies Board between 2013 and 2015. She then served as an associate program officer until 2016, when she took on her current role. She received her B.A. in marine affairs and policy with concentrations in biology and political science from the University of Miami in 2007. The following year she received an M.A. in marine affairs and policy from the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. In 2012, she earned her J.D. from the University of Virginia, School of Law.

Michael Cohen is a senior program officer for the Committee on National Statistics. He has led or served as contributing staff on a wide range of studies on the U.S. census and the modeling and reliability of defense systems. He also serves as a consultant on statistical analysis for other divisions in the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Previously, he was a mathematical statistician at the Energy Information Administration and held positions at the School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland and at Princeton University. His general area of interest is the use of statistics in public policy, with a particular focus on census undercount, model validation, and robust estimation. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He has a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Michigan and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford University.

David Policansky received his Ph.D. in biology from the University of Oregon, where he studied evolutionary biology and ecology. He has published on life-history transitions, including the cost and timing of sexual reproduction in plants and animals; he also has published on fisheries and the interface between science and policy and on the inheritance of asymmetries in flounders. In his more than 30 years at the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine he has been involved in more than 35 reports, many as project director. His work has focused on management of natural resources, natural restoration, information

for environmental decision making, reviews of large federal programs, and on endangered species, among other topics.

Payton Kulina (until September 2016) joined the Ocean Studies Board in June 2013 as a senior program assistant. He graduated from Dickinson College in 2010 receiving a B.A. in policy management. He is currently pursuing an M.S. degree in finance through the Kogod School of Business at American University. Prior to this position, Mr. Kulina worked as a coordinator with BP Alternative Energy, also in Washington, DC.

Allie Phillips (starting September 2016) graduated in May 2016 from Colby College in Waterville, Maine, where she received a B.A. in environmental studies: policy. As an undergraduate, she held internships at the Environmental League of Massachusetts and the New England Aquarium. She joined the Ocean Studies Board as a program assistant in September 2016.

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