Stephen Brandt, director of NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory since 1997, has been named the Director of the Oregon Sea Grant Program, based at Oregon State University (OSU). He will officially begin his Oregon duties in January 2009.
Brandt replaces Robert Malouf, Oregon Sea Grant director from 1991 until his retirement in June. Jay Rasmussen, Sea Grant’s associate director and Extension program leader, is serving as interim director.
An oceanographer and freshwater scientist by training, Brandt earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and has had several academic appointments, including as a professor with the University of Maryland’s Chesapeake Biological Laboratory and as Director of the Great Lakes Center for Environmental Research and Education with the State University of New York College at Buffalo.
