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Connecticut Sea Grant
Margaret (Peg) Van Patten
Communications Director
Peg joined Connecticut Sea Grant as communications coordinator in 1987. She received a B.S. in environmental sciences from Connecticut College, and an M.S. in oceanography from the University of Connecticut. Before joining Sea Grant, she was editorial assistant for the Connecticut College Alumni Magazine, and she has done freelance writing for newspapers and magazines. Peg is editor and designer of Wrack Lines, Connecticut Sea Grant's magazine, and webmaster for the program. Knowledgeable about seaweeds, Peg is author of Seaweeds of Long Island Sound.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sea Grant
Nancy Adams
Communications Manager

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Sea Grant
Position Vacant at this time.

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Maine Sea Grant
Susan White
Communications Coordinator
Susan is the associate director for outreach and communications coordinator for Maine Sea Grant (MSG), where she has worked for the past 19 years. She received a B.A. in psychology (with a minor in art and French) from Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, and, more recently, was involved in a graduate program in science communications/ marine biology at Northeastern University in Boston. Prior to her tenure at Sea Grant, Susan worked as a video/ multi-image producer in Portland, Maine, and taught language arts, drama, and art at an alternative school in Freeport. While at MSG, Susan has written and edited several books, including A Lobster in Every Pot: Recipes and Lore, A Field Guide to Economically Important Seaweeds of Northern New England, A Guide to Common Marine Organisms Along the Coast of Maine, and Between the Tides: Marine Plants and Animals of the Northeast. She co-produced the Sea & Shore radio spot series, which aired for several years on Maine Public Radio, and has produced many educational videos that have been shown at workshops throughout the state, as well as on public and commercial television stations.

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New Hampshire Sea Grant
Steve Adams
Communications Coordinator
Steve joined New Hampshire Sea Grant (NHSG) as communications coordinator in 1988. He received a B.A. in journalism and photography from the Univeristy of New Hampshire (UNH) and an M.S. in journalism from Ohio University. Before joining NHSG, he spent 10 years producing medical publications for Dartmouth Medical School. Since 1998, he and his colleagues in communications at Woods Hole Sea Grant have developed and maintained the national Sea Grant Web site that provides students with information on career opportunities in the marine sciences, www.marinecareers.net. In addition to his Sea Grant communications duties, he serves UNH as a member of the Alumni Publications Advisory Committee and the State of New Hampshire as a member of the New Hampshire Estuaries Project Public Outreach and Education Team. Steve's professional interests include the Internet, special publications, and communications research and history. His personal interests include just about anything that can be done outdoors, especially golf, hiking, bicycling, cross-country skiing, motorcycling, and exploring.

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New York Sea Grant
Barbara Branca
Communications Coordinator
Barbara Branca joined New York Sea Grant as communicator in late 1997. She received a B.S. in biology and an M.S. in biology education from the University at Albany (SUNY), with graduate field work in the Adirondacks and Lake George under the tutelage of Don McNaught who later became Minnesota Sea Grant director. After college, she spent five years teaching biology and earth science in upstate New York and at Johnson State College in Vermont. Before joining Sea Grant, she was the science editor for numerous educational publishers in Manhattan and author of several texts. Since 1998, she and colleague Paul Focazio have published Coastlines, New York Sea Grant's newsmagazine. Barbara served as Great Lakes Communications chair in 2000 and chair of the national network in 2002 when she helped develop a strategy to evaluate the national communications projects. Along with her NY and Connecticut colleagues, she was part of the award-winning outreach team that educated the public about the cause of lobster mortalities in Long Island Sound. In addition to her Sea Grant communications duties, she is part of the NYSG education and estuary working groups and a member of both the Stony Brook University PR team and the Fair Media Council. Outside of work, her passion is music, whether scatting with the Stony Brook Jazz Band, jamming with bluesman Sam Taylor, singing in the chorus of the Stony Brook Opera Company or composing original sambas performed with the Sound Symphony orchestra.

Rhode Island Sea Grant
Monica Allard-Cox
Communications Leader