A warm welcome to the OOIFB newest members Rosie Gradoville and Janet Nye. They officially joined the Board this June to help continue the independent input and guidance regarding the management and operation of the U.S. National Science Foundation Ocean Observatories Initiative.
Rosie Gradoville joins the OOIFB from the Watershed Department of the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (CRITFC). She holds the position of Supervisory Oceanographer/ CMOP Observatory Lead as a biogeochemical oceanographer working within CRITFC’s Coastal Margin Observation and Prediction (CMOP) program. She oversees a long-term biogeochemical ocean and estuary monitoring program supported by the Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems (NANOOS).
Janet Nye joins the OOIFB from the Institute of Marine Sciences at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is an Associate Professor focusing on effects of climate variability and climate change on fish, fisheries, and marine ecosystems. Specifically, she studies how climate and fishing interact to cause shifts in spatial distribution and abundance of fish and invertebrates in the Northwest Atlantic. She is excited for the new data coming in from the newly relocated Pioneer MAB Array and aims to help collect more biological data and to figure out ways to get biologists to use the data or combine their work with the OOI array.