About the Team

The NOAA Gulf of Mexico Regional Collaboration Team (GoMRCT) is one of eight regional teams. The 22-member team includes a Team Lead and a full-time Regional Coordinator. Team members reflect the diversity of NOAA within the Gulf of Mexico region, and are comprised of NOAA employees and NOAA partners. The GoMRCT also utilizes a work group structure to focus its activities and reach beyond team members to bring in additional expertise for specific activities. To learn more about the NOAA offices and labs represented by team members, visit the links associated with their home offices provided below.

Regional Team Lead: Brian LaMarre – Meteorologist-in-Charge National Weather Service – Tampa Bay Area, FL

Regional Coordinator: Kristen Laursen National Marine Fisheries Service

NOAA Regional Team Members

• Becky Allee, Office for Coastal Management, Gulf Region, NOS

• Steve Ashby, Northern Gulf Institute

• Karen Bareford, National Water Center, NWS

• Matt Bethel, Louisiana Sea Grant

• Julie Bosch, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), NESDIS

• Jeff Cupo, National Weather Service Southern Region Headquarters

• Lisa Desfosse, Southeast Fisheries Science Center – Mississippi Laboratories

• Steve Giordano, NOAA Fisheries Southeast Regional Office

• Chris Gledhill, Southeast Fisheries Science Center – Mississippi Laboratories

• Grace Gray, NOAA Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services, NOS

• Karen Grissom, National Data Buoy Center, NWS

• Marian Hanisko, Office for Coastal Management, Gulf Region, NOS

• Charlie Henry, NOAA Gulf of Mexico Disaster Response Center, NOS

• Philip Hoffman, Office of Policy, Planning, and Evaluation, OAR

• Tom Johnstone, Weather Forecast Office- Tallahassee, Florida, NWS

• Chris Kelble, NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, OAR

• David Kidwell, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, NOS

• Barb Kirkpatrick, Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System

• Julien Lartigue, NOAA RESTORE Act Science Program, NOS

• Tim Osborn, Central Gulf Coast Regional Navigation Manager, Office of Coast Survey, NOS

• Kevin Robbins, Southern Regional Climate Center

• Jessica White, NOAA Gulf of Mexico Disaster Response Center, NOS