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The North Atlantic Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (NAC - CESU) was established in June 1999 by cooperative agreement between agencies of the Department of the Interior (National Park Service and United States Geological Survey) and the University of Rhode Island, with its partner institution, University of Maryland Eastern Shore.

The North Atlantic Coast CESU is part of a national network of biogeographic programs being established to provide research, technical assistance and education to federal land management, environmental and research agencies. The CESUs will generate collaborations among federal managers and policy-makers, federal researchers and the academic community. Each partner contributes a different perspective and wealth of technical knowledge allowing for the development of new, innovative and creative solutions to the myriad environmental and social issues that confront our nation's ecosystems. Host universities are selected by a highly competitive process insuring that each CESU is founded on scientific excellence.

The University of Rhode Island, a national leader in the study of coastal and marine ecosystems, was selected as the host for the North Atlantic Coast CESU. The University of Maryland Eastern Shore, a Historically Black College, offers a strong complement of marine and coastal scientists. Based on the success of initial CESU efforts, many additional federal agencies and nonfederal institutions have joined the North Atlantic Coast CESU as partners since it's formation. As a result, excellent research and cooperative education and training opportunities have been made available to numerous students from diverse backgrounds, for the mutual professional benefit of students and the federal workforce.

HOST	University of Rhode Island
ESTABLISHED	1999
WEBSITE	https://naccesu.uri.edu/
DIRECTOR	Elin Torell Director, Coastal Institute University of Rhode Island Narragansett Bay Campus Narragansett, RI 02882 PHONE: (401) 874-6103 EMAIL: elintorell@uri.edu
ADMINISTRATIVE DOCUMENTS
Cooperative Agreement (1999) Amendment 1 adding Rutgers University Amendment 2 adding University of Massachusetts, Amherst Amendment 3 adding Maryland Coastal Bays Program and The Research Foundation of SUNY for Stony Brook University Amendment 4 adding Environmental Protection Agency - Office of Research and Development Cooperative Agreement (2004) Amendment 1 adding Natural Resources Conservation Service Amendment 2 adding University of Maine Amendment 3 adding City University of New York Amendment 4 adding College of the Atlantic Amendment 5 adding U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Civil Works Amendment 6 adding Research Foundation of State University of New York for SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Amendment 7 adding U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Columbia University in the City of New York Cooperative Agreement (2009) Amendment 1 adding National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Bates College, and University of Massachusetts, Boston Amendment 2 adding Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies, and Cornell University Amendment 3 adding Northeastern University and Biodiversity Research Institute Amendment 4 adding Marine Biological Laboratory and University of New England Amendment 5 adding Schoodic Education and Research Center Institute Amendment 6 adding Department of Defense, Harvard University, and Manhattan College Amendment 7 adding Narragansett Indian Tribal Historic Preservation Office (NITHPO) on behalf of the Narragansett Indian Tribe Amendment 8 adding University of Connecticut Cooperative Agreement (2014) Amendment 1 adding University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) and Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center Foundation, Inc. Amendment 2 adding Bureau of Indian Affairs Amendment 3 adding Natural Areas Association, Bryn Mawr College, and New Jersey Audubon Cooperative Agreement (2019) Amendment 1 adding American Turtle Observatory, Mansfield University, Stevens Institute of Technology, Stockton University, Vermont Center for Ecostudies, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Yale University Amendment 2 adding Brown University Amendment 3 adding Wildlife Management Institute Amendment 4 adding Boston University
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UNIT PARTNERS
	TECHNICAL REPRESENTATIVE	ADMINISTRATIVE REPRESENTATIVE
TRIBAL PARTNER
Narragansett Indian Tribal Historic Preservation Office (NITHPO) on behalf of the Narragansett Indian Tribe	Doug Harris Deputy Tribal Historic Preservation Officer/Preservationist for Ceremonial Landscapes dhnithpo@gmail.com
FEDERAL PARTNERS
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Civil Works	Jennifer Seiter-Moser Acting Technical Director Civil Engineering Programs Engineer Research and Development Center jennifer.m.seiter-moser@usace.army.mil	Sherry Whitaker CESU Program Manager sherry.l.whitaker@usace.army.mil Chelsea Whitten Lead Contract Specialist Chelsea.M.Whitten@usace.army.mil
Bureau of Indian Affairs	John Mosley Branch Chief, Tribal Climate Resilience Office of Trust Services john.mosley@bia.gov	Jo Ann Metcalfe Grants Management Specialist jo.metcalfe@bia.gov
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management	Mary Boatman Environmental Studies Chief Office of Renewable Energy Programs Environment Review Branch for Renewable Energy mary.boatman@boem.gov	Jennifer Ewald Science Communication Outreach Liaison Division of Environmental Sciences jennifer.ewald@boem.gov
Department of Defense	Ray Rainbolt Raymond.E.Rainbolt.civ@mail.mil Liz Galli-Noble Program Manager, DoD Legacy Resource Management Program elizabeth.j.galli-noble.civ@mail.mil	Lori Kruse-Johnson SWD CESU Program Manager Lori.M.Kruse-Johnson@usace.army.mil
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service	Susan C. Adamowicz Biologist, Region 5 susan_adamowicz@fws.gov	Anna-Marie York Grants Management Specialist Science Applications anna-marie_york@fws.gov
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	Jon Hare Science and Research Director Northeast Fisheries Science Center jon.hare@noaa.gov	LCDR James Brinkley North Atlantic Regional Team Coordinator Northeast Fisheries Science Center james.brinkley@noaa.gov Michael Liddel CESU Program Manager Acting Branch Chief, Commercial Fishery Statistics michael.liddel@noaa.gov
National Park Service	Brian Mitchell NPS Research Coordinator brian_mitchell@nps.gov	Keith Zotti Agreements Officer NPS Northeast Region keith_zotti@nps.gov
Natural Resources Conservation Service	Weihuan “Mark” Xu Director, Resource Inventory and Assessment Division, SSRA weihuan.xu@usda.gov David Lindbo Director, Soil and Plant Science Division david.lindbo@usda.gov	Aileen Anderson Grants Management Specialist aileen.anderson@usda.gov
U.S. Geological Survey	Deb Epperson Acting Deputy Director and Science Advisor USGS Wetland and Aquatic Research Center depperson@usgs.gov	Faith Graves CESU Contract Specialist fgraves@usgs.gov
UNIVERSITY PARTNERS
Bates College	Holly Ewing Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies hewing@bates.edu	Joseph Tomaras Director, Sponsored Programs and Research Compliance jtomaras@bates.edu Katie Currie Grants Coordinator, Office for External Grants kcurrie@bates.edu
Boston University	Alyssa Novak Research Assistant Professor Dept of Earth and Environment abnovak@bu.edu Zoe Hughes Research Assistant Professor Dept of Earth and Environment zoeh@bu.edu	Todd Conley Associate Director, Pre-Award Services Office of Sponsored Programs ospera@bu.edu
Brown University	Yongsong Huang Professor, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences (DEEPS) Yongsong_Huang@brown.edu Tyler Kartzinel Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Institute at Brown for Environment and Society tyler_kartzinel@brown.edu	Patrice Carroll Director, Office of Sponsored Projects patrice_carroll@brown.edu
Bryn Mawr College	Thomas Mozdzer Associate Professor of Biology tmozdzer@brynmawr.edu	Sarah Robertson Director of Sponsored Research serobertso@brynmawr.edu
City University of New York	John Waldman Professor john.waldman@qc.cuny.edu	Contact your sponsored programs office
College of the Atlantic	John G.T. Anderson Associate Dean for Advanced Studies jga@coa.edu	Contact your sponsored programs office
Columbia University	Steven Cohen Executive Director, The Earth Institute sc32@columbia.edu Rita Ricobelli Senior Staff Associate, The Earth Institute rricobelli@ei.columbia.edu	Alison Miller Deputy Executive Director The Earth Institute alisonmiller@ei.columbia.edu
Cornell University	Magdeline Laba Senior Research Associate IRIS - Section of Soil and Crop Sciences School of Integrative Plant Science College of Agriculture and Life Sciences ml49@cornell.edu	Christine Ashdown Senior Grant and Contract Officer Office of Sponsored Programs cma20@cornell.edu
Harvard University	Brian Farrell Museum of Comparative Zoology farrellb@oeb.harvard.edu	Contact your sponsored programs office
Manhattan College	Kerryanne Donohue Civil and Environmental Engineering Department kerryanne.donohue@manhattan.edu Kirk Barrett Civil and Environmental Engineering Department kirk.barrett@manhattan.edu	Dominic Esposito Certified Grants Administrator dominic.esposito@manhattan.edu
Mansfield University	Jennifer Demchak Chair, Department of Geosciences jdemchak@mansfield.edu	Contact your sponsored programs office
Northeastern University	Geoffrey Trussell Director, Marine Science Center g.trussell@neu.edu	Eric Jones Grant Officer ep.jones@neu.edu
Rutgers University	Norbert Psuty Director, Sandy Hook Cooperative Research Program Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences psuty@marine.rutgers.edu Michael DeLuca Senior Associate Director Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences deluca@marine.rutgers.edu	Casandra Burrows Assistant Director, Grant and Contract Administration Office of Research and Sponsored Programs caburrow@grants.rutgers.edu Melissa Vinch Research Contract/Grant Specialist mv365@grants.rutgers.edu
State University of New York - College of Environmental Science and Forestry	Neil Ringler Dean of Research neilringler@esf.edu John Auwaeter Research Scientist jeauwaer@esf.edu	Justine Gordon Contract and Grant Specialist Office of Sponsored Programs Services Justine.Gordon@rfsuny.org
Stevens Institute of Technology	Jon Miller Research Associate Professor Department of Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering jmiller@stevens.edu	Contact your sponsored programs office
Stockton University	Kimberly McKenna Director of Sponsored Programs and Senior Project Manager Coastal Research Center kimberly.mckenna@stockton.edu	Contact your sponsored programs office
Stony Brook University	R. Lawrence Swanson Associate Dean School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences lswanson@notes.cc.sunysb.edu	Anne DePietri Contracts Administrator Research Foundation for The State University of New York Office of Sponsored Programs Stony Brook University annette.depietri@stonybrook.edu
University of Connecticut	John Volin Professor and Head Natural Resources and the Environment john.volin@uconn.edu Glenn Warner Associate Professor Department of Natural Resources and the Environment glenn.warner@uconn.edu Michael R. Willig Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering michael.willig@uconn.edu	Andrea Kelly Executive Assistant to the Vice President for Research andrea.kelly@uconn.edu
University of Maine, Orono	Frederick Servello Dean, College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture Director, Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station fred.servello@maine.edu	Christopher Boynton Director, Office of Research Administration umgrants@maine.edu
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science	David Secor, Ph.D. Professor Chesapeake Biological Laboratory secor@umces.edu	Barbara Jenkins Senior Research Administrator bjenkins@umces.edu
University of Maryland, Eastern Shore	Joseph Pitula Department of Natural Sciences jspitula@umes.edu	Catherine Bolek Director, Sponsored Research csbolek@mail.umes.edu
University of Massachusetts, Amherst	Eric Johnson Director UMASS Archaeological Services Department of Anthropology ericjohnson@anthro.umass.edu	Office of Grant and Contract Administration ogca@research.umass.edu
University of Massachusetts, Boston	Jack Wiggin Director, Urban Harbors Institute jack.wiggin@umb.edu Amy Den Ouden Department of Anthropology amy.denouden@umb.edu	Contact your sponsored programs office
University of New England	Barry A. Costa-Pierce Henry L. and Grace Doherty Chair of Marine Sciences Director, Marine Science Education and Research Center bcostapierce@une.edu	Contact your sponsored programs office
University of Rhode Island	Judith Swift Director, Coastal Institute jswift@uri.edu	Ellen Mcvey Sponsored Projects Scientific Research Grant Assistant emcvey@gso.uri.edu
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	Britt Raubenheimer Senior Scientist Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering britt@whoi.edu	Richard Murray Deputy Director and Vice President for Research rickmurray@whoi.edu
Yale University	William Lauenroth Professor in the Practice Yale School of the Environment william.lauenroth@yale.edu	Contact your sponsored programs office
OTHER PARTNERS
American Turtle Observatory	Lisabeth Willey President lisabeth.willey@gmail.com
Biodiversity Research Institute	David Evers Chief Scientist david.evers@briloon.org	Lori Davis Finance Director lori.davis@briloon.org Sharon Oehmig Billing and Budget Manager sharon.oehmig@briloon.org
Marine Biological Laboratory	Jim Tang The Ecosystems Center jtang@mbl.edu	Rebecca Lynn Manager of Sponsored Programs rlynn@mbl.edu
Maryland Coastal Bays Program	Roman Jesien Science Coordinator mcbp@mdcoastalbays.org or rjesien@mdcoastalbays.org
Natural Areas Association	Lisa Smith Executive Director lsmith@naturalareas.org
New Jersey Audubon	David Mizrahi Vice President for Research and Monitoring david.mizrahi@njaudubon.org
Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies	Mark Borrelli Coastal Geologist mborrelli@coastalstudies.org	Richard Delaney Executive Director delaney@coastalstudies.org
Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park	Mark Berry President/CEO mberry@schoodicinstitute.org	Phyllis Morris Office Manager phyllis@sercinstitute.org
Vermont Center for Ecostudies	John Lloyd Director of Science jlloyd@vtecostudies.org
Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center Foundation, Inc.	Susan Barco Research Coordinator sgbarco@virginiaAquarium.com
Wildlife Management Institute	Scot Williamson Vice President swilliamson@wildlifemgt.org	Scot Williamson Vice President swilliamson@wildlifemgt.org