Larry Ciulla: President Gloucester Seafood Display Auction (GSDA) and former commercial fisherman. Larry is part of the fourth generation in his family's seafood business. In 1997 led the family business to become the premier unloading facility and seafood display auction in Gloucester, MA.Founded in 1997, with current annual gross transaction value in excess of $20 million dollars, Gloucester Seafood Display Auction has become the largest daily auction of fresh seafood in North America with annual volume in excess of 20 million pounds. The Ciulla's continue to move the industry forward and in 2006 brought the business into the hi-tech arena by establishing the first and only online seafood internet auction in North America.

Katrina Muir Cornell: A five year Terrascope veteran, Katrina has undergraduate degrees in EAPS and Physics and a Masters degree in Geology from MIT. A river guide and kayaker, Katrina has found a way to meld her passion for rivers with her formal education by modeling bedrock channel erosion for her thesis work. Originally from Truckee, CA, Katrina is also an avid skier. A talented vocalist, she plays a plethora of instruments, including piano, guitar, mandolin, mountain dulcimer, and - somewhere in the dark recesses of her past - oboe and saxaphone.

Kenneth Frank: Research scientist at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Kenneth Frank has a life long interest in food webs that started with his PhD work at the University of Toledo where he studied a fresh water ecosystem. Kenneth Frank is well known for his seminal work on the disappearance of cod and the rippling effects or “trophic cascades” caused by removing the top predators in a community. He and colleagues examined various levels of nutrients and discovered that the virtual elimination of cod in the early 1990s in the eastern Scotian Shelf area of Nova Scotia restructured the food web, causing population explosions of previous prey fish like herring and shrimp.

Nina Jarvis: Gloucester Seafood Display Auction (GSDA). Nina is the first generation of a Sicilian fishing family.  Family owned the F/V Sacred Heart, a 90-foot stern trawler which operated out of Gloucester, MA.  Due to complex restrictions in the early 1990’s the family was forced to participate in one of the governments “buy back” programs.  After 10 years in the human service field Nina returned to continue on the positive growth of the fishing industry.

Dane Klinger: Blue Ocean Institute Fisheries and Aquaculture Research Associate. Dane Klinger was born in Texas, but his fascination with all things maritime began as a child growing up on the Chesapeake Bay. He further pursued his study of the marine environment as a joint B.A./M.S. Environmental Studies/Policy student at Bard College ­ focusing primarily on ecology and economics.  As a graduate student he conducted his thesis research at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on the impact of genetic interaction between farmed and wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) on the Dennys River, Maine.  Dane has participated in research projects in conjunction with Cornell University, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Marine Policy Center. 

Paul Rago: Biologist of the National Marine Fisheries Service’s (NMFS) Northeast Fisheries Science Center Biologist. Paul Rago is a fisheries research biologist with NOAA Fisheries in Woods Hole, Massachusetts where he leads a group on fishery stock assessment methods. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1986. Before coming to NOAA Fisheries, he was Research Coordinator for the Emergency Striped Bass Study for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Dr. Rago has been actively involved in the design, implementation, and analysis of a number of projects involving the use of fishermen's data in stock assessment. These projects have included studies with the surfclam-ocean quahog, sea scallop, and monkfish fisheries. In 2000, Dr. Rago helped organize and chaired an international symposium on the use of fishermen's information in stock assessment in Brugge, Belgium for the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea. Over the past several years, Rago has been actively involved in a number of training activities for at-sea observers, graduate students, and fishermen.