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Gary Freitag: Scientist and fisheries biologist employed as research and evaluation manager for the Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association. Owner and chief consultant for Oceanographic Services of Southeast Alaska, a firm that specializes in environmental oceanographic, fishery and marine mammal site surveys. Author of numerous patents and publications for Imperial Chemical Incorporated of America. He also is an aviator. He helped establish the OceansAlaska board in 1992 and serves as its president.
Jerrold Koerner: A retired Alaska Department of Fish and Game fisheries biologist who has lived in towns throughout the Southeast region of the state. He has owned Jerry Appleseed Nursery and Experimental Orchard since 1993, conducting trials on more than 450 early ripening apple varieties suitable for growing in the short season and maritime climate of Southeast Alaska. He has lived in Alaska for more than 30 years and has served on the OceansAlaska board of directors since February 1996.
Len Laurance: An owner in Alaska Rainforest Sanctuary. He is a key figure in the Ketchikan tourism industry, serving as a marketing director, consultant and advocate through his career in the industry and the community which has been his home for more than 40 years. He is a former assemblyman for the Ketchikan Gateway Borough and has served on the board of directors for the Greater Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce and the Ketchikan Visitors Bureau. He helped establish the OceansAlaska board.
Tomi Marsh: Owner of the boat “Savage,” she has been involved in the commercial fishing industry for 24 years. She has fished for crab from the Bering Sea of Alaska to the coast of Washington state, and participated in a variety of other Alaskan fisheries. In conjunction with the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, she has been active in fisheries marketing promotion. She joined the OceansAlaska board in 2006.
Monica Schulz: A registered nurse with more than 19 years of clinical experience in hospitals and primary care facilities. Manages a medical practice, overseeing financial aspects and compliance with all government regulations and financial aspects, and was a 2003 appointee to the clinical faculty at Weber State University. She has been in Alaska since 1990. She received her bachelors of nursing degree in 1987 from Carroll College, Helena, Mont. She and her husband, Dr. Stacy Schulz, are enthusiastic divers.
Bob Weinstein: The mayor of Ketchikan since 1997, he is in his third term. He has a bachelors degree from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and a masters degree from the University of Oregon. He came to Ketchikan in 1974 and worked as a teacher and superintendent with the Southeast Island School District until 1994. He was elected to the City Council in 1991. He is an active member of the Ketchikan Running Club. He also enjoys kayaking and reading, especially mysteries.
Tena Williams: Copublisher of the Ketchikan Daily News who was born, raised and worked in Southeast Alaska most of her life. She has served as president of the Greater Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce as well as the Alaska Newspaper Association, and currently serves on the Ketchikan General Hospital Governing Board, and the Alaska Judicial Council at the request of Gov. Frank Murkowski. She is an enthusiastic quilter. She helped establish the OceansAlaska board in 1992 and serves as its treasurer.
Mike Round: A 35-year resident of Southeast Alaska, a former U.S. Coast Guard officer, commercial diver, pilot boat operator, tour-vessel operator and commercial salmon fishermen, Mike is presently the Assistant General Manager for Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association (SSRAA). He holds a commercial pilot license, a 100-ton Captains license as well as a NAUI scuba diver certification. He sits on the board of directors of the United Fishermen of Alaska (UFA) and on the Executive Committee for the Ketchikan Greater Chamber of Commerce as SSRAA’s representative.
Robert Boyle: Currently serves as Superintendent of Ketchikan Gateway Borough
School District. He is on the advisory Board for University of Alaska Southeast
Ketchikan,Board of Directors for KRBD Radio and Board of Directors for Medical
Reserve Corp of Ketchikan.He has written commercial fishing curriculum for the
Alaska Department of Education and promoted fisheries training and science
educational programs in schools across Alaska. He has worked in commercial
herring and salmon operations.
Don Mitchel: Don has more than 35 years of experience as a Ketchikan educator.
He was a member of the Ketchkan Borough Assembly, local State Park
Advisory Board,Ketchikan Visitors Bureau and Rotary.Don was
President of the Ketchikan Recreation Coalition and also
President of the Soccer League. He was instrumental in the
creation of Patchworks and the Gateway Recreation Center. He is
currently a partner in a small Ketchikan business. He and his wife
have fished their handtroll permit. His hobbies include steelhead
and king salmon fishing, building his home and cabin. Don is an avid ocean
swimmer.
The OceansAlaska Staff •
John Tighe / Executive Director: A thirty nine year veteran of the attractions industry. John has designed, built and managed aquariums, zoos, botanical facilities and water parks. He was a member of the founding team that established the Sea World parks nationally.
Phone: 907-225-7900
Fax: 907-247-7900
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John Sund / Development Director: As Development Director Sund brings decades of varied experience to OceansAlaska. Most recently he was Vice President for NorQuest Seafoods, one of Alaska's major seafood processors. Sund also served three terms in the Alaska Legislature, was President of Waterfall Resort one of Alaska's premier fishing resorts and was involved in several roles crafting legislation for Alaska's non-profit hatchery system. He has planned, supervised construction and completed startups on major capital facilities in many locations in coastal Alaska.
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