Josh Eagle
Josh Eagle is the Director of the Stanford Fisheries Policy Project, an interdisciplinary collaborative project joining Stanford Law School, Hopkins Marine Station, and several other university schools and departments. Fisheries Policy Project research is focused on issues at the intersection of law and science in U.S. and international fisheries management. Current projects include studies of the Regional Fishery Management Councils and of the interactions between salmon fisheries and the salmon aquaculture industry. Mr. Eagle teaches several classes at Stanford, including Ocean Policy, Marine Conservation, Marine Resources Law, and Environmental Law. Prior to coming to Stanford, Mr. Eagle worked as staff attorney in the policy office of the National Audubon Society and served as a trial attorney for the United States Department of Justice.

Fred Hay
Fred Hay is currently working as a technical outreach and education specialist with the Georgia Coastal Management Program in Brunswick, GA. In addition to traditional education programming, he works with local governments and resource managers providing technical assistance in the form of resource planning, mapping, grant funding and coordinating partnerships. Recent projects have included mapping Georgia's Coastal Hammocks and serving as technical support for the Coastal Hammocks Advisory Council. This body was convened by the Commissioner of the GA Department of Natural Resources in order to provide the Department with guidance in managing these important natural resources. Other projects include working with coastal developers to bring smart growth concepts to coastal developments and conducting site assessments to determine marsh jurisdiction boundaries.

Mr. Hay's undergraduate work was done at Emory University where he graduated in 1993 with a degree in human and natural ecology. Mr. Hay then went to Sapelo Island to work for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources as the Education Coordinator at the Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve. He received his master's degree from the University of Georgia's Institute of Ecology in 2000.
Mr. Hay has been married for nine years and has two daughters, Katie and Morgan. He lives with his family in Darien, GA just north of the Altamaha River in McIntosh County.

Noel Jacobs
Noel Jacobs is the Regional Project Director of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef Systems Project based in Belize City, Belize. Mr. Jacobs received an Associates Degree in Biology and Chemistry from Belize Technical College, a B.S. in Aquacultural Engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico del Mar in Sonora, Mexico, and a M.S. in Marine Biology from the Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CINVESTAV) – Unidad Mérida in Yucatan, Mexico. Mr. Jacobs has served as a delegate to numerous international events, including the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa and special CITES and Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission meetings. Before becoming Regional Project Director, Mr. Jacobs served as the Director of the Lobster and Conch Resource Assessment Unit - CARICOM Fisheries Resource Assessment and Management Program and Acting Fisheries Administrator for the Fisheries Department in the Ministry of Agriculture/Fisheries. Mr. Jacobs has written several scholarly papers on fisheries and coastal topics, most recently publishing on large scale marine conservation in the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef.

Richard McLaughlin
Richard McLauglin is Professor of Law and Ray and Louise Stewart Lecturer, University of Mississippi School of Law. Professor McLaughlin holds a J.D. from Tulane University, a LL.M. from the University of Washington, and a J.S.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Professor McLaughlin teaches admiralty law, property, international law, international environmental law, international trade law, land planning law, and coastal law. He has been a Fulbright Scholar to Japan and a visiting professor at Florida State's summer law program in Barbados and at the University of Mississippi's summer law program in Cambridge, England. Professor McLaughlin founded the University of Mississippi Law School's Summer Law program in Hawaii and has served as its Resident Director since 1996. He has published more than fifty articles and monographs in the area of marine law and policy, serves in leadership positions in several professional organizations, and is a frequent presenter at national and international conferences.

Stephen Olsen
Stephen Olsen is the Director of the Coastal Resources Center at the University of Rhode Island. Mr. Olsen holds a B.A. in Biology from Oberlin College and a M.S. in Biological Oceanography from the University of Rhode Island. Mr. Olsen is also an Affiliated Professor of Oceanography at URI and the International Director of the URI/United States Agency for International Development Coastal Resources Management Program. His current research explores the dynamics of governance in coastal ecosystems, most specifically the formulation and refinement of methods for assessing governance capacity and the outcomes of coastal governance initiatives through time. Mr. Olsen also conducts outreach and education by working with interdisciplinary teams to design three to ten year programs to build the capacity of people and institutions to effectively address the most pressing resource management issues in developing nations, such as Ecuador, Indonesia, and Thailand.

Daniel Suman
Dr. Suman holds a Ph.D. Degree in Oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego. He has a M.Ed. in International Education and a Masters of Arts Degree in Comparative Education from Columbia University. He received his B.A. degree from Middlebury College in Chemistry. In addition, Suman has a J.D. and Certificate in Environmental Law from the University of California at Berkeley and a Certificate of Latin American Studies from Columbia University. He has been a fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the National Research Council. He is currently a member or the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law. At the University of Miami, Suman is currently an Associate Professor in the Division of Marine Affairs and Policy, as well as an Adjunct Professor in the School of Law, and an Adjunct Senior Research Associate at the North-South Center. Suman has been invited to serve on the newly created Marine Protected Area Federal Advisory Committee, as well as the UNESCO Advisory Group for the Sustainable Development of the Volga-Caspian Basin in Russia.

Suman conducts research on the adaptability of the fishing sectors in Chile, Peru, and Ecuador to ENSO ("El Niño") climate variability. This research involves analyses of changing positions of industrial fishing companies and labor unions, artisanal fishing unions, and government regulators in light of environmental uncertainty. He also has long-standing research interests in mangrove management in Latin American and Caribbean countries and has organized international training workshops for mangrove managers and analyzes mangrove-related legislation in the Americas. His additional research focus concerns the establishment of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). Suman and Manoj Shivlani have studied user group conflicts in the establishment of marine harvest refugia ("no-take" zones) in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and other MPAs. Their work centers on alternative modes of public participation in the development of MPAs, information sources used by the public, and evolving perceptions and attitudes of resource users regarding marine reserves.

Suman is the Project Director of a two-year Integrated Coastal Management project located in the Darien Province of Panama. The project team of 15 members spans the natural and social sciences and represents the University of Miami, Arden & Price Consulting (Panama), and the University of Panama. The Panamanian government counterpart is the Directorate of Marine and Coastal Resources of the Panamanian Maritime Authority (AMP). The Inter-American Development Bank is financing this project as part of a suite of projects under the umbrella of the Program for the Sustainable Development of the Darien (PDSD). The project team is developing a diagnosis of the coastal and marine resources of the Darien and people who use them. In 2003-2004, the group will prepare a Coastal & Marine Resource Management Plan in conjunction with local communities of the Gulf of San Miguel and adjacent regions of the Darien.

Michael Sutton
Michael Sutton heads the Ocean Conservation Program at the David & Lucile Packard Foundation in Los Altos, California, the largest private funder of wildlife conservation efforts in North America. He manages a portfolio of approximately $11 million per year in this flagship grantmaking program. The Conservation Program seeks to ensure a healthy future for all life by conserving critical natural systems, addressing key threats to these systems, and providing scientific information and training that will enhance their conservation.

Previously, Sutton founded and directed World Wildlife Fund's Endangered Seas Campaign, a worldwide effort to promote the conservation and sustainable use of marine fisheries and ecosystems. During his tenure, WWF formed a business/environment partnership with Unilever, the world's largest buyer of frozen fish. Together, WWF and Unilever co-founded the Marine Stewardship Council, an independent nonprofit organization working to harness market forces and consumer power in favor of sustainable fisheries.
Sutton joined World Wildlife Fund in 1990 to work on international wildlife policy issues. In 1992, he was appointed Vice President responsible for the U.S. Land & Wildlife Program. Under his leadership, the program grew to 15 staff working to protect world-class natural areas and wildlife resources within North America.

In the United States, Sutton has served as a senior advisor to the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of State on marine conservation issues. He co-founded the Marine Fish Conservation Network and the Ocean Wildlife Campaign, the latter an international coalition working to conserve large pelagic species such as sharks, tuna, and swordfish. He has lectured on the conservation of natural resources at graduate seminars at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, George Washington University, and the University of Rhode Island.

Before joining the WWF staff, Sutton served as a special agent with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Oregon and Idaho, and as a park ranger with the National Park Service in Yosemite, Yellowstone, Biscayne, and Virgin Islands National Parks and Death Valley National Monument. At Yellowstone, he worked in both the back and front country during summer and winter seasons.
Sutton received a bachelor's degree in wildlife biology from Utah State University in 1978 and pursued graduate studies in marine biology at the University of Sydney, Australia. In 1992, he received a law degree in international and natural resources law from George Washington University's National Law Center in Washington, D.C. Sutton is an instrument-rated private pilot and aircraft owner, and enjoys SCUBA diving, wildlife & underwater photography, and skiing.

Simon Woodley
Simon Woodley is a freelance environmental consultant in marine and coastal ecosystem management and marine protected area management with an emphasis on coral reefs and tropical coastal ecosystems. He has an Arts degree from the Australian National University in political science and geography, and a Masters degree from James Cook University in applied science. From 1978 to 1998, Mr. Woodley held various senior management positions in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, with responsibilities for marine park management, environmental impact management, research and monitoring, and external consulting. From 1998 to 2000, he was the CEO of the Cooperative Research Centre for the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. He has conducted training courses and provided technical advisory services on marine protected area management in many countries in the South East Asian Region. Mr. Woodley currently holds an adjunct appointment as Associate Professor at the School of Tropical Environment Studies and Geography, James Cook University

Mr. Woodley specializes in policy, planning and management of marine and coastal resource use; marine protected area policy, planning and management; environmental impact assessment; science communication for marine resource management, capacity building and training in developing countries with tropical marine and coastal resources; and co-operative research partnerships.