Ove Hoegh-Guldberg is an active collaborator with the Center for Ocean Solutions, including acting as spokesman on coral reefs and climate change during the climate treaty negotiations in Copenhagen, coordinating a Forum for Pacific environmental leaders as part of the Center’s Training and Outreach program, and playing an active role in the formation of the Climate Change Initiative and Pacific Ocean crosscutting project. 

John N. (“Jack”) Kittinger is an early career fellow with a background as a human geographer and coastal ecologist with broad interests in understanding and advancing solutions to complex problems that face society and the ocean environment.

Stephen Monismith is a member of the Management Committee at the Center for Ocean Solutions (COS). As Chair of Stanford University’s Civil and Environmental Engineering, Professor Monismith's research and teaching apply fluid mechanics principles to the analysis of flow processes in lakes, estuaries and the oceans. 

Bob Richmond is a member of COS's Climate Change and Coral Reefs Working Group.  He is a Research Professor at the University of Hawaii’s Kewalo Marine Laboratory.