Five Panelists Added to Commission’s Hearing Agenda
For Immediate Release
Sept. 24, 2010
Contact: Dave Cohen, Press Secretary
202.570.8311 dave.cohen@oilspillcommission.gov
Media Advisory:
Five Panelists Added to Commission’s Hearing Agenda
Richard Harrell of the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality has
been added to the Sept. 27th panel, “Decision-Making Within the Unified
Command.” He joins three previously announced panelists: Captain Edwin Stanton,
Sector Commander, New Orleans, U.S. Coast Guard; Doug Suttles, COO for
Exploration & Production, BP; and William “Billy” Nungesser, President of
Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.
Mark K. Sogge, Chief of Staff for the U.S.
Geological Survey’s Western Regional Director, has been added to the Sept. 27th
panel on “The Amount and Fate of the Oil.” He joins four previously announced
panelists: Dr. Bill Lehr, Senior Scientist, Office of Response and Restoration,
NOAA; Dr. Ian McDonald, Professor of Oceanography, Florida State University; Dr.
Richard Camilli, Assistant Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; and
Dr. Terry Hazen, Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Both Terrence “Rock” Salt, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army
for Civil Works, and Brian McPeek, North American Regional Director for The
Nature Conservancy have been added to the Sept. 28th panel entitled “The States
and the Federal Government: Defining a Shared Path for Gulf Restoration.” They
join two previously announced panelists: Assistant Secretary of the Interior Tom
Strickland, and Garret Graves, Director of the Louisiana Office of Coastal
Activities.
Timothy Fitzgerald, Marine Scientist, Oceans Program,
Environmental Defense Fund, has been added to the Sept. 28th panel, “Impacts:
The Gulf and Seafood Safety.” He joins two previously announced panelists: Dr.
Steven Murawski, Director of Scientific Programs and Chief Science Advisor,
National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, and Dr. Bill Walker, Director of the
Mississippi Department of Natural Resources.
Full details on the
Commission’s next hearing, on Sept. 27th and 28th at the Washington Marriott
Wardman Park hotel, are posted at www.oilspillcommission.gov.