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Staff Profile of the Month:
Dr. Elliott A. Norse Elliott Norse decided to become an “ichthyologist” when he was 5, the year he began watching and catching bluefish, blue crabs and other marine life in the estuarine canal behind his home in Brooklyn NY. His commitment deepened when he first donned a face mask and saw Florida’s marine fishes in their habitat at age 8, and he got scuba certified at 16. At Brooklyn College he earned a B.S. with honors in biology, geology and music in 1969, then studied the ecology of blue crabs in the Caribbean and Tropical East Pacific for his Ph.D. at University of Southern California and Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Iowa. Since 1978 he’s devoted his life to shaping marine and terrestrial conservation policy at the US Environmental Protection Agency, White House Council on Environmental Quality, Ecological Society of America, The Wilderness Society and Ocean Conservancy. He founded MCBI in 1996 because he felt that our living oceans needed a bolder, scientifically stronger and more strategic voice. Elliott’s most enduring contribution to conservation has been defining biological diversity as conservation’s overarching goal. His main focus in recent years has been securing protection of very big places in the oceans and catalyzing the transformation of ocean governance to ecosystem-based spatial management. He’s a gifted speaker and prolific writer with 140+ publications including two books on forest conservation and two on ocean conservation. He is also Adjunct Professor of Marine Conservation Science and Policy at Duke University, a Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation, winner of NOAA Fisheries’ 2006 Nancy Foster Award for Habitat Conservation and Brooklyn College’s 2008 Distinguished Alumnus. Elliott and his wife Irene live in Redmond WA, where they devote their scarce free moments to organic gardening, watching hummingbirds sip nectar from their flowers and helping their three grandchildren grow up.
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