PORT ANGELES — The Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary has gained a new primary member and a new alternate member to serve on its advisory council.
The sanctuary, based in Port Angeles, is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Christopher Clark will serve as the primary member, and Alan Rammer has been named as the alternate and will fill a new Marine Resource Committee seat.
Marine Resource Committees — or MRCs — are science-based groups on the outer coast that promote marine resource stewardship and restoration.
Clark serves on the North Pacific Coast MRC and also works for the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission as a salmon and steelhead habitat inventory and assessment GIS specialist.
Rammer serves on the Grays Harbor MRC.
Recently retired, he worked for the state of Department of Fish and Wildlife as a marine science educator and community outreach specialist, and recently was named the National Marine Educators Association’s 2012 Marine Science Educator of the Year.
Established in 1999, the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council provides advice and recommendations on managing and protecting the sanctuary.
The council is composed of seven non-governmental, four tribal and 10 governmental representatives.
Serving in a volunteer capacity, the council members represent a variety of local user groups, as well as the general public.
Sanctuary advisory council primary and alternate members serve three-year terms and meet several times per year in public sessions.
For more information, visit www.olympiccoast.noaa.gov.