MACOORA Leadership
MACOORA leadership comprises the Board of Directors, a Users Council, and other councils and committees.
Board of Directors
The MACOORA Board of Directors is composed of one representative from each of the five Association sub-regions, Delaware Bay, Massachusetts and Rhode Island Bays and Shelf, the New York Bight, Long Island Sound, and the Chesapeake Bay, and represents the diversity of the organization’s membership.
Presently, there are 15 directors, five sub-regional directors, seven at-large directors, and three board-appointed directors. For more information about appointments and elections, please see our bylaws
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Massachusetts & Rhode Island Bays & Shelf Wendell Brown (2010) School for Marine Science & Technology University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 706 South Rodney French Boulevard New Bedford, MA 02744–1221 Phone: (508) 910–6395 E-mail: wbrown@UMassD.Edu |
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Long Island Sound Jim O'Donnell (2009) University of Connecticut Department of Marine Sciences 1080 Shennecossett Road Groton, CT 06340 Phone: (860) 405–9171 E-mail: james.odonnell@uconn.edu |
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Jeffrey Yapalater — Board-Appointed
(2010) Freeport Tuna Club 267 Wynsum Avenue Merrick Bay, NY 11566 Phone: (516) 425–4645 E-mail: snapswivel@gmail.com |
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New York Bight Vacant |
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Scott M. Glenn — At-Large (2011) DMCS, Rutgers University 71 Dudley Road New Brunswick, NJ 08901 [Room 103G, Marine Sciences Building, Cook Campus] Phone: (732) 932–6555, ext. 506 E-mail: glenn@marine.rutgers.edu |
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Edward Kelly — At-Large (2009) MACOORA Board Vice Chair Executive Director Maritime Association of the Port of New York & New Jersey 17 Battery Place, Suite 913 New York, NY 10004 Phone: (212) 425–5704 E-mail: themaritimeassoc@erols.com |
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Andrew Voros — At-Large (2009) Columbia University Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering (DEEE) 500 West 120th Street, Room 918 New York, NY 10029 Phone: (212) 854–2910 E-mail: coast@columbia.edu |
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Michael Bruno — Board-Appointed (2010) Stevens Institute of Technology Castle Point on Hudson Hoboken, NJ 07030 Phone: (201) 216–5338 E-mail: michael.bruno@stevens.edu |
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Delaware Bay Bob Tudor (2010) Deputy Executive Director Delaware River Basin Commission P.O. Box 7360 25 State Police Drive West Trenton, NJ 08628 Phone: (609) 883–9500, ext. 208 E-mail: Robert.Tudor@drbc.state.nj.us |
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Carolyn Thoroughgood — At-Large
(2011) MACOORA Board Chair Special Assistant to the Provost for Program Development Professor, Marine Studies University of Delaware 282 Delaware Biotechnology Institute Newark DE 19711 Phone: (302) 831–7209 E-mail: ctgood@udel.edu |
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Chesapeake Bay Fredrika Moser (2009) Maryland Sea Grant College University System of Maryland 4321 Hartwick Road, Suite 300 College Park, MD 20740–3210 Phone: (301) 405–6373 E-mail: moser@mdsg.umd.edu |
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William C. Boicourt — At-Large
(2011) University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory 2020 Horn Point Road P.O. Box 775 Cambridge, MD 21613 Phone: (410) 221–8426 E-mail: boicourt@hpl.umces.edu |
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Larry Atkinson — At-Large (2011) MACOORA Board Secretary OEAS Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA 23529 Phone: (757) 683–4926 E-mail: latkinso@odu.edu |
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Jay Titlow — At-Large
(2010) MACOORA Board Treasurer Senior Meteorologist WeatherFlow, Inc. 790 Poquoson Street Poquoson, VA 23662 Phone: (757) 868–5362 E-mail: jtitlow@weatherflow.com |
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Judith T. Krauthamer Executive Director, MACOORA P.O. Box 6879 Ellicott City, MD 21042 Phone: (410) 461-5017 Fax: (410) 461–5017 E-mail: judith.krauthamer@macoora.org |













