| July 16, 2002 -- Biliana Cicin-Sain, director of the Center for the Study of Marine Policy and professor of marine policy at the University of Delaware, has been named to the Science Advisory Panel of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy.
Cicin-Sain joins Carolyn Thoroughgood, dean of the College of Marine Studies, on the advisory panel.
The panel, mandated by the Oceans Act of 2000, will provide expert scientific counsel and assistance to the commission in its development of recommendations for a comprehensive national ocean policy.
Cicin-Sain, who is editor-in-chief of the international journal Ocean & Coastal Management, has been a pioneer in forging cross-national collaboration in marine policy and has served as an adviser on numerous boards.
Members of the panel were chosen by the commission in consultation with the National Academy of Science.
Retired Navy Adm. James D. Watkins, who chairs the commission, said Cicin-Sain was selected as one of the nation’s top experts in marine policy and governance issues. He said her expertise will be “an integral resource in the development of the commission’s recommendations for a comprehensive national ocean policy.”
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