Comings and Goings in the Pond

The last quarter was a busy one for the CRSP pond, with many comings and goings. The Program Management Office (PMO) welcomed Joan Westfall as Administrative Program Assistant. Prior to joining the PMO, she worked at the Oregon State University (OSU) Foundation.

Departing GRA and EdOp Net Editor Matt Niles

New to the Information Management and Networking Component (IMNC) is graduate research assistant (GRA) Anu Gupta. Gupta studies in the Marine Resource Management (MRM) program at OSU, where she works on wetland restoration. Here at the IMNC, however, she is putting long-forgotten skills from her undergraduate English degree to work as a technical editor.

The CRSP will miss its escapees, including Matt Niles, Kevin Bokay, and John Hayes. Niles is familiar to many of you as EdOp Net editor; he served over two years as GRA in the IMNC. He has moved to Hawaii, where he is working on his MRM master's project, focusing on construction setbacks for coastal development. We at the IMNC office hope that those setbacks make for a better surfing experience...

Another graduate student to escape was John Hayes, who moved from the IMNC to doing full-time graduate study and research. (See p. 9 for a full profile on Hayes.)

Kevin Bokay, the former Administrative Program Assistant, has taken a faculty position

Former Coordinator of the Mexico Project Martin Fitzpatrick

at OSUs Valley Library. In the Fall 1999 issue of Aquanews, Bokay stated that he "always wanted to know more about the management of the University." We hope that his new position is giving him an inner window to the complicated machinations of the university.

The CRSP pond also felt ripples from members outside the PMO and IMNC. US Regional Coordinator for the Mexico Project Martin Fitzpatrick left OSU and has moved to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. He will continue advising students and working on Reproduction Control Research.

Finally, Chris Brown, US Regional Coordinator for the Philippines Project, moved from the University of Hawaii to Florida International University, where he will continue with his CRSP research. Brown will really be swimming with the fish as he directs the university's Marine Biology Program.

We wish everyone luck and success as they settle into their new niches!