OR&R Field Staff Locations and Contact Information
The following information will help you locate and contact the field staff for the Office of Response and Restoration's four divisions:
- Emergency Response Division Scientific Support Coordinators (SSCs) and Regional Response Officers (RROs).
- Assessment and Restoration Division Regions.
- Marine Debris Division regional staff.
- Disaster Preparedness Program regional staff.
Scientific Support Coordinators (SSCs)
OR&R's Emergency Response Division (ERD) consists of an interdisciplinary scientific team that responds to oil and chemical spills in U.S. waters and helps the On-Scene Coordinator make timely operational decisions. The team is headquartered at NOAA's campus in Seattle; however ERD's Scientific Support Coordinators (SSCs), located around the country, lead the team at spills, drawing on the team's spill trajectory estimates, chemical hazards analyses, and assessments of the sensitivity of biological and human-use resources. OR&R staff members also represent NOAA and the DOC on the National Response Team and Regional Response Teams.
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District 1 Email: william.whitmore@noaa.gov |
District 5 Sectors: Delaware Bay, Maryland NCR, Hampton Roads, North Carolina, and District 1/Sector New York Frank Csulak NOAA SSC USCG Station Manasquan 61 Inlet Dr Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey 08742 Email: frank.csulak@noaa.gov |
District 7 Sectors: Charleston, Jacksonville, Miami, Key West, St. Petersburg, San Juan Bradford Benggio NOAA SSC 909 SE 1st Avenue, Suite 714 Brickell Plaza Federal Building Miami, Florida 33131 Email: brad.benggio@noaa.gov |
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District 8 Sectors: Houston-Galveston, Corpus Christi Paige Doelling NOAA SSC USCG Sector Houston-Galveston 13411 Hillard Street Houston, Texas 77034 Email: paige.doelling@noaa.gov Sector: New Orleans Brandi Todd NOAA SSC Prevention, USCG 8th District (DP-SSC) 500 Poydras Street, Suite 1341 New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 Email: brandi.todd@noaa.gov Sectors: Upper Mississippi, Lower Mississippi, Ohio Valley, Mobile Adam Davis NOAA SSC NOAA Disaster Response Center 7344 Zeigler Blvd Mobile, Alabama 36608 Email: adam.davis@noaa.gov Vacant Email: rro.gulfcoast@noaa.gov |
District 9 Sectors: Lake Michigan, Eastern Great Lakes, Northern Great Lakes, Detroit, LCDR Chris Duffy NOAA SSC NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory 4840 S. State Road Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108 Email: ssc.greatlakes@noaa.gov |
District 11 Sectors: San Francisco, Los Angeles-Long Beach, San Diego Jordan Stout NOAA SSC Coast Guard Island, Building 50-7 Alameda, California 94501 Email: jordan.stout@noaa.gov |
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District 13 Sectors: Puget Sound, Columbia River CDR Aaron Maggied NOAA SSC 7600 Sand Point Way NE Seattle, Washington 98115 Email: ssc.northwest@noaa.gov LTJG Kyle Vincent
Email: rro.westcoast@noaa.gov |
District 14 Sectors: Honolulu, Guam Ruth Yender NOAA SSC 1845 Wasp Blvd Building 176 Honolulu, Hawaii 96818 Email: ruth.yender@noaa.gov |
District 17 Sectors: Juneau, Anchorage Liza Sanden NOAA SSC/RPC 49000 Army Guard Road, Suite G216 Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska 99505 Email: liza.sanden@noaa.gov |
Contact ERD National Response Staff:
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NOAA SSC Supervisor West Coast and Great Lakes Doug Helton NOAA OR&R 7600 Sand Point Way NE Building 3, Room 2025 Seattle, Washington 98115 Email: doug.helton@noaa.gov |
NOAA SSC Supervisor East and Gulf Coasts John Tarpley (Acting) NOAA OR&R 1305 East-West Highway Silver Spring, Maryland 20910 Email: john.tarpley@noaa.gov |
NOAA Regional Operations Branch Chief John Tarpley NOAA OR&R 7600 Sand Point Way NE Building 3, Room 2006 Seattle, Washington 98115 Email: john.tarpley@noaa.gov |
ARD Regions
OR&R's Assessment and Restoration Division (ARD) protects and restores coastal habitats and resources affected by hazardous materials releases or ship grounding. All of ARD's efforts, from assessment to restoration, are coordinated at a regional level. ARD's Regional Resource Coordinators (RRCs) are NOAA environmental scientists who work to provide the technical foundation for assessments of ecological risk and environmental and economic injury from contamination at hazardous waste sites and to improve coordination among trustee agencies.
For general assessment and restoration regional issues, contact ARD Regional Branch Chiefs:
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Northeast & Great Lakes Branch Diane Evers NOAA/ARD 290 Broadway New York NY 10007 Phone: 240.338.3411 |
Southeast Branch Kevin Kirsch NOAA/ARD 263 13th Ave S Saint Petersburg, Florida 33712 Phone: 727.551.5619 |
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West Coast Branch Amy Merten NOAA/ARD 7600 Sand Point Way NE Seattle, Washington 98115 Phone: 206.526.6829 |
Spatial Data Branch Michele Jacobi NOAA/ARD 7600 Sand Point Way NE Seattle, Washington 98115 Phone: 206.526.6830 |
For ARD oil spill coordinators:
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West Coast/Pacific Branch
Sectors: California, Hawaii, Pacific Islands, Oregon, Washington, Idaho Kaitlin Lieb Sectors: Alaska Sarah Allan Sectors: Backup (Entire region) Troy Baker Sectors: Backup (Entire region) Marla Steinhoff |
Northeast & Great Lakes Branch
Sectors: New York, New Jersey Reyhan Mehran Sectors: District of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Great Lakes Dan Takaki Sectors: Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine Diane Evers |
Southeast/Gulf Branch Bryand Duke Phone: 727.304.0304 Sectors: Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Puerto Rico, Caribbean Dan Hahn Sectors: Backup (Entire region) Susan Snyder |
Contact Spatial Data Branch Liaisons:
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West Coast/Pacific Branch
Zach Winters-Staszak Ben Shorr (Backup) |
Northeast & Great Lakes Branch
Matt Dorsey Robb Wright (Backup) |
Southeast/Gulf Branch
Jay Coady George Graettinger (Backup) |
Marine Debris Division Staff
OR&R's Marine Debris Division, headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, has regional staff members positioned around the country to support local coordination efforts, track progress of projects, review performance measures, and conduct regional marine debris outreach to local audiences.
Contact information for the Marine Debris Division's field staff members is available on the Marine Debris Contact Us page.
Disaster Preparedness Program Staff
OR&R's Disaster Preparedness Program has regional staff members positioned in the Southeast and Gulf of Mexico regions to support disaster preparedness and coordination across the National Ocean Service and its partners.
Contact Disaster Preparedness Program Staff:
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DPP Chief Kate Wheelock Email: kate.wheelock@noaa.gov |
DPP West Coast & US Pacific Islands Region Kyla Breland Email: kyla.breland@noaa.gov |
DPP Northeast Region William Whitmore Email: william.whitmore@noaa.gov |
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DPP Gulf of Mexico Region Charlie Henry Email: charlie.henry@noaa.gov |
DPP Alaska Region Liza Sanden Email: liza.sanden@noaa.gov |
DPP Southeast & Caribbean Region Allyssa Zebrowski Email: allyssa.zebrowski@noaa.gov |