Administration
Pamela T. Plotkin, Director
Logan Respess, Associate Director and Extension Leader
Terry Poehl, Assistant Director and Fiscal Officer
Jim Hiney, Communications Coordinator
Peggy Foster, Assistant to the Director
Texas Sea Grant Administration is responsible for submitting the program's biennial omnibus funding proposal. It includes funded
research projects and the program's operating budget. Research proposals are ushered through a rigorous, year-long peer review and approval process beginning in December of even-numbered years. The new funding cycle is scheduled to begin in February 2012.
Almost every year since the program’s inception in 1979, Texas Sea Grant has had at least one candidate accepted for the Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship. It offers graduate students the opportunity to gain valuable experience while providing expertise to executive branch agencies, including NOAA and the National Science Foundation, or to the legislative branch in Washington, D.C., to aid their marine policy or natural resource efforts.
Texas Sea Grant is accepting donations to continue to build the endowment for this oceanography graduate scholarship, which is named for the late Associate Director and Extension Leader.
Texas Sea Grant hosts a conference each fall to give investigators of its funded research projects an opportunity to share their findings with colleagues from universities across disciplines related to marine and coastal research and with their peers at state natural resource agencies. The conference is held on a rotating basis in College Station, Galveston or the Coastal Bend.
This year's conference will be held October 17-18, 2011, on the Texas A&M University campus.
