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AAUS Board of Directors 

President

Michael A. Lang
The Ocean Foundation
mlang@oceanfdn.org
571.296.5023

 

 

Secretary

Lora Pride
LUMCON
lpride@lumcon.edu
985.851.2834

 

Treasurer

Mike Dardeau
Dauphin Island Sea Lab
mdardeau@disl.org
251.861.2141 x7527

 

Standards Committee Chair

Marc Slattery
University of Mississippi
Department of Pharmacognosy
slattery@olemiss.edu
662.281.0313

 

Scholarship Committee Chair

Diana L. Steller
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
dsteller@mlml.calstate.edu
831.423.8759

 

Director 2013 / Membership

Pema Kitaeff
Friday Harbor Labs
pema@u.washington.edu
206.543.0876

President-Elect

Amy L. Moran
Department of Biological Sciences
Clemson University
moran@clemson.edu
864.656.1488

 

Finance Committee Chair

Elliott Jessup
California Academy of Sciences
415.379.5438

 

Statistics Committee Chair

Cheryl L. Thacker
University of Florida
cthacker@ehs.ufl.edu
352.392.1661

 

Director 2015

Christopher Rigaud
University of Maine
crigaud@maine.edu
207.563.8273

 

Director 2014/Symposium

George Peterson
Monterey Bay Aquarium
gpeterson@mbayaq.org
831.917.4815
   

 

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Membership Levels
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