Gerhard F. Kuska

Executive Director, MARACOOS

Dr. Gerhard Kuska is the Executive Director of MARACOOS (the Mid-Atlantic Regional Association Coastal Ocean Observing System), one of the eleven federally-certified IOOS regional associations of academic, research, government, private and non-profit organizations that power understanding and prediction of our ocean, coasts, and estuaries to save lives, protect livelihoods, and boost the economy. He is also Chair of the Board of the national ocean observing organization, the IOOS Association. Gerhard has served over the past 40 years in a variety of ocean, coastal, and environmental positions in the US, Europe, and the Middle East, including with NOAA, the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the United States Senate, the US Commission on Ocean Policy, and with private industry in the sectors of international cargo transportation and logistics, and environmental services. He received his PhD in Marine Policy from the University of Delaware.