Texas GoMRI Showcase

GoMRI and Texas: Celebration of a 10-year partnership

September 25, 2020

Bailey, Plotkin, and Pennock: Introduction and welcome

Dr. Rita Colwell, Perspectives from the Chair of the GoMRI Research Board

Laura Bowie, GOMA and GoMRI: Perspectives from the Executive Director of the Gulf of Mexico Alliance

Dr. Raymond L. Orbach, Perspectives from a Texas GoMRI research board member, In memory of Ciro V. Sumaya

Wilson, McKinney, Buskey, Quigg: GoMRI and scientific achievements panel

Dani Bailey, Translating GoMRI scientific discoveries to serve Texas stakeholders, partners, and coastal communities

Buschang, Gibeaut, Wood: Connection of GoMRI to stakeholders and GoMRI legacy panel

Pamela Plotkin, Closing remarks

Speakers and panelists

Pamela Plotkin, Executive Director, Texas Sea Grant
Jonathan Pennock, Director, National Sea Grant College Program, NOAA
Rita Colwell, Chair of the GoMRI Research Board
Laura Bowie, Executive Director, Gulf of Mexico Alliance
Chuck Wilson, GoMRI Chief Scientific Officer
Raymond L. Orbach, GoMRI Research Board member from the state of Texas, The University of Texas at Austin
Larry McKinney, Senior Executive Director of Harte Research Institute, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi
Edward J. Buskey, University of Texas Marine Science Institute
Antonietta Quigg, Senior Associate Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies, Texas A&M University Galveston
James Gibeaut, Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies (GRIIDC), Texas A&M University Corpus Christi
Tony Wood, Director of the National Spill Control School, Corpus Christi
Steve Buschang, Director of Research and Development/ Scientific Support Coordinator, Texas General Land Office