Management Committee

Dr. Chris Harrold is Director of Conservation Research at the Monterey Bay Aquarium where he has worked since 1985. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Stanford University and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz. The focus of Chris' research has been marine ecology of nearshore and deep-sea marine ecosystems.

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. 

Robert Dunbar is a member of the Center for Ocean Solutions Management Committee.  He is the William M. Keck Professor of Earth Sciences at Stanford University, and the Victoria P. and Roger W. Sant Director of the Earth Systems Program, the largest undergraduate and co-terminal masters program in the School of Earth Sciences.

Jeff Koseff is a member of the Center for Ocean Solutions (COS) Management Committee.  He is the Perry L. McCarty Director of Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, the William Alden Campbell and Martha Campbell Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Michael Forman University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, all at Stanford University.

Stephen Palumbi serves on the Management Committee of the Center for Ocean Solutions.  He is also the director of Hopkins Marine Station. Professor Palumbi's research focuses on genetics, evolution, conservation, population biology and systematics of a diverse array of marine organisms. 

Chris Scholin is the MBARI representative to the Center for Ocean Solutions (COS) Management Committee, as well as a member of the COS Fellowship & Curriculum Committee.  Scholin is the President and CEO of MBARI.