Senior Advisory Council
The Rhode Island Sea Grant Program Senior Advisory Council assists the program in defining focus and achieving excellence for resolving critical issues of the marine environment in Rhode Island, the Northeast, and the nation.
Rationale
The SAC advises the leadership of Rhode Island Sea Grant on how best to forge partnerships, avoid duplication, facilitate science-based activities of importance to multiple stakeholders. The group also advises about new or proposed activities important to Rhode Island Sea Grant in marine, coastal, and environmental research, education, and outreach and helps identify opportunities for funding.
The SAC helps Rhode Island Sea Grant fulfill its mission to design and implement research, outreach, and education programs that:
- Understand human-dominated coastal ecosystems and our historic coastal communities
- Foster sustainable community-based economic development in Rhode Island, the Northeast and the United States, with particular concern for coastal ecosystems and habitats, marine fisheries and aquaculture, marine trades, and marine biotechnology development and commercialization
Operations
SAC members represent a cross-section of private, public, and university groups interested in Sea Grant's thematic areas and our marine research, policy, legal, education, and advisory services. SAC representatives are chosen from the many organizations that Rhode Island Sea Grant interacts with, and represent a diversity of issues and interest areas. SAC memberships are flexible for a 3-5 year period, and are determined at the discretion of the Director of Rhode Island Sea Grant in consultation with the Rhode Island Sea Grant Leadership Team. Our program monitors from the National Sea Grant College Program Office are ex-officio members, as are the members of the Rhode Island Sea Grant Leadership Team.
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