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MRS 2024 Organizing Committee

LEADERSHIP

Maj Gen Randy "Church" Kee USAF (Ret.)

2025 CO-CHAIR

Director, Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies

Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Anchorage Alaska

biography 

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RADM Richard V. Timme USCG (Ret.)

2024 MASTER OF CEREMONIES

Timme Maritime Consulting

Richard.V.Timme@gmail.com

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Captain Eric Johansson

2023 CHAIR

Distinguished Professor Maritime Transportation

Maritime College, State University of New York

ejohansson@sunymaritime.edu

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Rick Paxton
STUDENT POSTER CHAIR

Paxton Holdings, Inc.

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RADM M.T.Bell Jr. USCG (Ret.)

2025 CO-CHAIR

Dean, School of Arctic and Climate Security Studies

Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies 

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Scott Brotemarkle

NATIONAL ACADEMIES LIAISON
Transportation Research Board (TRB)

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine

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Greg Trauthwein
MEDIA PARTNER AND COMMUNICATIONS

President, New Wave Media

Maritime Reporter & Engineering News, MarineLink.com

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SENIOR MENTORS

VADM Rob Parker

U.S. Coast Guard (Ret.)

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RADM Fred Rosa

U.S. Coast Guard (Ret.)

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

RADM Matt Bell

U.S. Coast Guard (Ret.)

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Dr. Fred Roberts

Ph.D., Rutgers University

Scott Blough

Google (co-chair, MRS 2017)

RADM Mike Parks

U.S. Coast Guard (Ret.)

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RDML Scott Clendenin

U.S. Coast Guard (Ret.)

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RADM Tom Atkin

U.S. Coast Guard (Ret.)

Eric "Coop" Cooper
Senior Policy Researcher, RAND, Santa Monica, California

U.S. Coast Guard, CAPT (Ret.)

https://www.rand.org/about/people/c/cooper_eric.html

SENIOR ADVISORS

John Hummel

Argonne National Laboratory

(co-chair, MRS 2022)

Dr. David Nicol

Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

(co-chair, MRS 2020)

LTC Kevin Clement, USA (Ret.)

University of Houston

(co-chair, MRS 2021)

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LTC Craig Moss, USA, (Ret.)

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

(co-chair, MRS 2018)

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Zack Schulman

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CAPT Al Tubbs USCGR (Ret.)

USCGR PACAREA

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Stan Gold

Coast Guard ATLANTIC AREA

Dr. Jack McCready

University of San Diego

Colonel Randy Pugh

USMC, (Ret.) NPS

Alan Van Nevel

NPS

Dr. Kelli Frakes

American Public University System

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Captain Greg Hall, USCG

Research Provost USCGA

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Dr. Dan Flynn

Department of Transportation

VOLPE Center

CDR (Sel) Oscar Carbajal

USCGR - USCGR District 11 Liaison

Dr. Henry Willis

RAND

Captain Art Gomez, USCG (Ret.)

SERCO

Rex Dillon

NPS

CAPT Shawn Malone USN (Ret.)

Lockheed Martin-Sikorsky

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