The Ocean Vision Network

The Ocean Visions Network is a growing international community of diverse academic, research, and mission-aligned organizations collaborating to advance ocean–climate solutions. It serves as a platform for knowledge exchange, project partnerships, and expert guidance, allowing members to engage in ways that align with their capacities and interests while collectively strengthening the field.

Network Leadership Team

The Network Leadership Team is an advisory body assembled to activate and mobilize the Ocean Visions Network. The team sets the overall strategic vision for the Network, establishes priorities, reviews progress and products, and facilitates collaboration and communication with external parties

Brad Ack

Chief Executive Officer

Clark Alexander

Director of the University of Georgia’s Skidaway Institute of Oceanography

Jim Barry

Senior Scientist and Chair of the Research Division at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)

Andrew Babbin

Associate Professor of Chemical Oceanography and Marine Microbiology Mission Co-director, MIT Climate Project: Restoring the Atmosphere, Protecting the Land and Oceans

Nicolas Cassar

Professor of Biogeochemistry at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment

Fei Chai

Chair Professor at Xiamen University and Professor Emeritus at the University of Maine

Giovanni Coppini

Director of Global Coastal Ocean Division presso CMCC – Centro Euro Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici

Jennifer Dianto Kemmerly

Vice President of Global Oceans at Monterey Bay Aquarium1

Emanuele Di Lorenzo

Chairman & Co-Founder of Ocean Visions and Professor at Brown University

Rob Dunbar

Professor at Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Adrienne Hoarfrost

Assistant Professor in the Department of Marine Sciences at University of Georgia

Debora Iglesias-Rodriguez

Professor of Biological Oceanography and chair of the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology at UCSB

Kristin Kleisner

Lead Senior Scientist and the Associate Vice President for Oceans Science at EDF

Kate Moran

President & CEO, Ocean Networks Canada

Tuba Ozkan-Haller

Professor of Biological Oceanography and chair of the Department of Ecology, Evolution Dean of Oregon State University’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences & Professor in the Colleges of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences and Engineering.and Marine Biology at UCSB

Anne Park

Chief Executive Officer Sustainable Ocean Alliance

Christopher Pearce

Principal Marine Geoscientist, National Oceanography Centre

Millicent Pitts

Chief Executive Officer and Director, The Ocean Exchange

Patrick Rafter

Assistant Professor of Chemical Oceanography at the University of South Florida’s College of Marine Science

Christopher Reinhard

Associate Professor of Biogeochemistry and Georgia Power Chair in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech

Katharine Ricke

Associate Professor and the Edward A. Frieman Endowed Presidential Chair in Climate Sustainability at University of California San Diego

Mark Shimamoto

Director, Global Outreach Programs, American Geophysical Union

Rohit Shukla

Founder and CEO, Larta

Jill Storey

Ocean CO2 Removal Advisor, World Ocean Council

Benjamin Twining

Henry L. and Grace Doherty Vice President for Education, Senior Research Scientist, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences

Benjamin Van Mooy

Senior Scientist and Interim Deputy Director and Vice President for Science & Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Un Hyuk Yim

Principal Research Scientist at the Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST)

Network Leadership Team

The Network Leadership Team is an advisory body assembled to activate and mobilize the Ocean Visions Network. The team sets the overall strategic vision for the Network, establishes priorities, reviews progress and products, and facilitates collaboration and communication with external parties

Dr. Tuba Özkan-Haller is the Dean of Oregon State University ‘s College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences and Professor in the Colleges of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences and Engineering.

Özkan-Haller previously served as Associate Vice President for Research Administration and Development in Oregon State University’s Research Office. She previously also served as Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Advancement in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences.

As a faculty member, she focuses on the use of numerical, field, laboratory, and analytical approaches to arrive at a predictive understanding of waves, circulation, and beach change in the nearshore ocean, including the continental shelf, the surf zone, inlets, and estuaries. The results of this work are being applied to navigational planning, for the development and design of wave energy conversion devices, and for forecasting of beach-goer hazards.

She has also extensively engaged in work to increase diversity and inclusivity in academia and was a co-Principal Investigator for OSU’s ADVANCE grant from the National Science Foundation aimed at increasing the participation of women and other underrepresented groups within faculty in STEM disciplines. She has given various invited talks on this subject, including a plenary talk at the 2018 Goldschmidt Conference of the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry.

Nationally, Özkan-Haller is currently serving as a member on two Federal Advisory Committees: the Hydrographic Survey Review Panel of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Board on Coastal Engineering Research of the Army Corps of Engineers. She has previously served for two terms as a member of the Ocean Studies Board of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) and has participated in various NASEM studies, including as the chair of a consensus study on the future of the U.S. Gulf Coast. She is currently co-chairing a NASEM committee working on a Decadal Survey of Ocean Sciences for the National Science Foundation.

Özkan-Haller is passionate about communicating science to the public and has appeared in numerous documentaries produced by the History Channel, the National Geographic Channel, and Oregon Public Broadcasting, and was quoted in various news segments and newspaper articles, most recently about sneaker wave fatalities along the Pacific Northwest Coastline of the US. She has also authored various opinion pieces.

Özkan-Haller is the recipient of the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, the Outstanding Faculty Member Award at the University of Michigan as well as the Pattullo Award for Excellence in Teaching Award and Woman of Excellence Award at OSU. She holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey, and a M.C.E. and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Delaware.