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) • top
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 William Whitmore Email: william.whitmore@noaa.gov |
District 5 Sectors: Delaware Bay, Maryland NCR, Hampton Roads, North Carolina, and District 1/Sector New York Frank Csulak Email: frank.csulak@noaa.gov |
District 7 Sectors: Charleston, Jacksonville, Miami, Key West, St. Petersburg, San Juan Bradford Benggio Email: brad.benggio@noaa.gov |
| District 8 Sectors: Houston-Galveston, Corpus Christi Paige Doelling Email: paige.doelling@noaa.gov Sector: New Orleans Brandi Todd, NOAA SSC Email: brandi.todd@noaa.gov Sectors: Upper Mississippi, Lower Mississippi, Ohio Valley, Mobile Adam Davis Email: adam.davis@noaa.gov |
District 9 Sectors: Lake Michigan, Buffalo, Sault Ste. Marie, Detroit, LT Rachel Pryor Email: rachel.l.pryor@noaa.gov |
District 11 Sectors: San Francisco, Los Angeles-Long Beach, San Diego Jordan Stout Email: jordan.stout@noaa.gov
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| District 13 Sectors: Puget Sound, Columbia River LCDR Faith Knighton Email: faith.knighton@noaa.gov LTJG Hayley Betker Email: hayley.betker@noaa.gov |
District 14 Sectors: Honolulu, Guam Ruth Yender Email: ruth.yender@noaa.gov |
District 17 Sectors: Juneau, Anchorage Catherine Berg Email: catherine.berg@noaa.gov |
Contact ERD National Response Staff:
| NOAA SSC Supervisor West Coast and Great Lakes Doug Helton Email: doug.helton@noaa.gov |
NOAA SSC Supervisor East and Gulf Coasts [Vacant] Email: |
NOAA Regional Operations Branch Chief
John Tarpley Email: john.tarpley@noaa.gov |
ARD Regions • top
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:
| 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 |
| 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:
| West Coast/Pacific Branch Sectors: Alaska; Backup California and Pacific Islands Sarah Allan Sectors: Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Backup California and Pacific Islands Marla Steinhoff Sectors: California, Hawaii, Pacific Islands Laurie Sullivan Sectors: Backup (Alaska, Washington, and Oregon) Troy Baker |
Northeast & Great Lakes Branch Sectors: Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York (excluding Staten Island) Ken Finkelstein Sectors: Staten Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, (no Great Lakes), Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia Simeon Hahn Sectors: Great Lakes states (Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania) Greg Baker |
Southeast/Gulf Branch Kevin Kirsch Phone: 727.551.5619 Sectors: Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Puerto Rico, Caribbean Dan Hahn
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Marine Debris Division Staff • top
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 Southeast Region Southeast Regional Preparedness Coordinator Charles Grisafi Email: charles.grisafi@noaa.gov |
DPP Gulf of Mexico Region NOAA Gulf of Mexico Disaster Response Center Charlie Henry Email: charlie.henry@noaa.gov |