Organizing Committees

IMCC Committee Chairs

John Cigliano, Chair
Ellen Hines, Chair of the Program Committee
Phaedra Doukakis, Chair of the Fundraising Committee
Chris Parsons, Chair of the Local Secretariat and Sustainability Committees
Amber Himes, Chair of the Communications Committee

IMCC Steering Committee

John Cigliano (Chair): Cedar Crest College
Alan Thornhill: Society of Conservation Biology Executive Officer
Ellen Hines: San Francisco State University
Elliott Norse: Marine Conservation Biology Institute
Norm Sloan: Gwaii Haanas National Park, Reserve and Haida Heritage Site
Michael F. Hirshfield: Oceana
Ana Parma: Argentine Council for Science & Technology of Argentina
Jon Day: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
John Senior: Parks Victoria
Ratana Chuenpagdee: Dalhousie University
Steve Gaines: University of California Santa Barbara
Dennis Heinemann: The Ocean Conservancy
John Waldman: City University of New York
Jane Lubchenco: Oregon State University
Jeff McNeely: The World Conservation Union
Dan Laffoley: World Commission on Protected Areas
Paul Dayton: Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Vera Agostini: The Nature Conservancy
Larry Crowder: Duke University
Joseph A. Uravitch: National MPA Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration