Director of the National Center for Mariculture. A world-renowned researcher in the field of the reproduction process in a wide variety of fish. She specializes in the production of reproductive cells independent of the wild populations and is known for her work on the domestication of the mullet fish

Professor of Oceanography and Applied Physics at Harvard University. His research interests include large-scale climate and ocean dynamics, including El Nino, thermohaline circulation, abrupt climate change, glacial cycles and equable climates; advanced methods of ocean data assimilation.