Site Review Team
National Sea Grant Site Review Team (SRT) Members:
Chelsea Berg (SRT Chair)
Chelsea Berg is a Sea Grant's federal program officer from the National Sea Grant Office who oversees the Minnesota Sea Grant College Program. Berg also provides oversight to the Illinois-Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin Sea Grant programs, serves as the Sea Grant Great Lakes Regional Coordinator, and manages grants and competitions for the National Sea Grant Office. She has spent her federal career with the National Sea Grant Office, as well as with the NOAA Cooperative Institutes Program Office, where she provided grants processing management and leadership. She initially joined the National Sea Grant Office following a Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship with the NOAA Ecosystem Research Program. Berg has previously served as the Sea Grant Knauss fellowship manager, the program officer for the California and University of Southern California Sea Grant programs, and was an education lead.
Berg holds a M.S. in biological science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a B.S. in environmental chemistry from Lake Superior State University.
Nancy Targett (SRT Co-chair)
Nancy Targett, Ph.D., is distinguished professor emerita and dean emerita, University of Delaware (UD), College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment (CEOE). She has more than 38 years of experience in higher education and served 10 years as director of Delaware Sea Grant and dean of CEOE. Then, as acting president at UD, she guided the institution through a 15-month period of transition. Targett also served as provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of New Hampshire. At UD, she led the team that formed First State Marine Wind (FSMW), a joint venture between the university and Gamesa Technology Corporation that built a commercial-scale wind turbine on the marine campus. She served on the FSMW Board of Directors for six years. Targett also served a three-year term as the Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Consortium of Ocean Leadership, six years on the Mid-Atlantic Fisheries Management Council, and three years on the Ocean Studies Board. While DESG Director, she held multiple elected positions for the Sea Grant Association. Targett was named an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow in 1999 and in 2016 received the Order of the First State from then-Governor Jack Markell in recognition of her contributions to the State of Delaware.
Targett received her M.S in marine science from University of Miami, and her Ph.D. in ocean science from University of Maine.
Susan Lovelace
Susan Lovelace, Ph.D. is the executive director for the South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium. Lovelace provides leadership and guidance for the agency and identifies the strategic directions for S.C. Sea Grant Consortium-funded research, education, and outreach. She also provides administration of the agency, updating state and federal legislators, partners, and staff about agency activities. She leads a multi-disciplinary staff as they work with researchers, businesses, communities, and organizations to sustain, appreciate, and wisely use the ecosystem services of the South Carolina coast while understanding and responding to the challenges and opportunities of changes in climate and land use.
Lovelace earned a Ph.D. in coastal resource management at East Carolina University, a B.S. in science education, also at East Carolina University, and a B.S. in zoology at North Carolina State University. She previously was S.C. Sea Grant Consortium’s assistant director for development and extension, and prior to this, she led the Human Dimensions Research Program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Hollings Marine Laboratory and was the education coordinator and site manager with the North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve.
Paul Anderson
Paul Anderson, M.S., is a retired marine scientist residing in Maine. Anderson has over 40 years of experience working with Maine’s marine resources, in public service roles, at the intersection of science, policy, and community. Anderson spent 16 years at the University of Maine where he was director and extension leader for the Maine Sea Grant College Program. While at UMaine, he also served as research director for the NSF-funded Sustainable Ecological Aquaculture Network and was the director of the University of Maine’s Aquaculture Research Institute. After leaving the University, he served as executive director at the Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries, a non-profit organization located in Stonington, Maine, that implements collaborative research to support sustainable fisheries in Maine. Prior to his time at Sea Grant, Anderson was at the Maine Department of Marine Resources for 10 years as senior microbiologist and director of public health in support of seafood safety.
Anderson holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in microbiology from the University of Maine. Paul currently volunteers on several Boards and advisory committees including Community Radio Station WERU-FM in Blue Hill, Maine, and the Hart Farm Community Supported Agriculture. He resides in Holden, Maine, where he enjoys gardening and making music with friends and family.
Jeff Reutter
Jeffrey M. Reutter, Ph.D., was the director of Ohio Sea Grant, Stone Lab and the Center for Lake Erie Area Research at the Ohio State University for 30 years. Before that he was the assistant/associate director for 11 years. While in those roles he fostered the development of 24 endowments, awarded scholarships, fellowships and employment opportunities to 2,200 students, authored over 150 papers, and awarded over 600 grants to over 300 scientists at over 20 colleges and universities. He was the president of the National Association of Marine Laboratories, the chair of the Board of Trustees for The Nature Conservancy in Ohio, U.S. co-chair of the Lake Erie Millennium Network for 18 years, the U.S. co-chair of the Council of Great Lakes Research Managers for the International Joint Commission for 6 years, and the U.S. co-chair of the Objectives and Targets Task Team for Annex 4 (nutrients) of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. The task team set the phosphorus reduction targets for Lake Erie to address harmful algal blooms and the dead zone. He was a trustee of the Great Lakes Protection Fund for 10 years and a member of the Ocean Research and Resources Advisory Panel, serving 28 federal agencies and offices, where he served on the Research to Applications Task Force and chaired the Education Sub-Panel that wrote the ocean education report for the Obama transition team.
In 2015, he received the Friends of Stone Laboratory Lifetime Achievement Award, the Ohio Environmental Council Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Water Conservationist of the Year Award from the League of Ohio Sportsmen. In 2017, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Ohio Lake Management Association, and OSU and the Friends of Stone Laboratory created an endowment in his name for scholarships and research at Stone Lab. In 2021, The Nature Conservancy in Ohio made him the first inductee to their Hall of Fame. In 2024, he was inducted into the Honorary 100 of the School of the Environment and Natural Resources at OSU. He is currently serving on the Manure Nutrient Management Collaborative for the International Joint Commission.
Patrick M. Gaffney
Pat Gaffney, Ph.D., is a professor of marine biology and biochemistry in the College of College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment at the University of Delaware. Gaffney’s research interests lie in the genetics of marine organisms, with an emphasis on mollusks and fish. Particular interests include population structure and application of molecular and genetic techniques to aquaculture and fisheries genetics. Molecular techniques are used for species and stock identification for purposes ranging from resource management to ecological monitoring, to the development of novel breeding schemes.
He held research fellowships at CSIRO (Hobart, Tasmania) and the University of Paris Marine Lab (Banyuls), and was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). Service on Sea Grant review panels included Georgia, Oregon, and California (multiple years).
Julia Wolff (Sea Grant Observer)
Julia Wolff is a competitions manager in the National Sea Grant Office and provides competitions policies and processing management and leadership. Julia has strong connections to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Sea Grant from early in her career, having first joined NOAA as a Knauss Fellow for the Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) Communications Office, and then spending seven years working in budget formulation in various NOAA offices. In 2015 she joined Sea Grant as a Fellowships Manager and Education Lead, first as a contractor and then as a federal Program Analyst.
Wolff holds a Ph.D. in biological oceanography from the University of South Florida, and a B.Sc. in biology from the College of William and Mary.