Staff and Affiliates

Superintendent - Kim Hum

Kim.Hum@noaa.gov

Resource Protection

Ed Lyman - Natural Resource Specialist & Acting Regional Large Whale Entanglement Response Coordinator under NOAAʻs MMHSRP
Ed.Lyman@noaa.gov

Maria Harvey - Large Whale Resource Protection and Monitoring Assistant (Affiliate)
Maria.Harvey@noaa.gov

Education

Patty Miller - Program Specialist
Patty.Miller@noaa.gov

Cindy Among-Serrao - Hawaiʻi Island Program Coordinator (Affiliate)
Cindy.Among-Serrao@noaa.gov

Elizabeth Beato - Maui Education and Outreach Program Associate (Affiliate)
Elizabeth.Beato@noaa.gov

Sara Wood - Advisory Council Coordinator and Education Program Specialist (Affiliate)
Sara.Wood@noaa.gov

Science

Dr. Marc Lammers - Research Ecologist
Marc.Lammers@noaa.gov

Maura Schonwald - Research Coordination Assistant (Affiliate)
Maura.Schonwald@noaa.gov

Eden Zang - Research Specialist (Affiliate)
Eden.Zang@noaa.gov

Operations

LT Hunter Brendel - NOAA Corps Officer/Deputy Superintendent
Hunter.Brendel@noaa.gov

LTJG Shellyann Rofrits - NOAA Corps Officer/Maui Facility and Vessel Coordinator
Shellyann.Rofrits@noaa.gov

Darrell Peck - Maintenance
Darrell.Peck@noaa.gov

Kaua‘i

Jean Souza - Program Specialist
Jean.Souza@noaa.gov

State of Hawai‘i

Jeannine Rossa - Acting Sanctuary Co-Manager, Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Aquatic Resources
jeannine.rossa.researcher@hawaii.gov

Partners

Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary cannot fulfill our mandate without working in partnership with a great number of people and programs. Some of these groups have memorandums of agreement (MOA's) with the sanctuary. These include: