Our Governing Board: Balanced Vision and Guidance

OST's Board of Trustees ensures compliance with all of the organization's legal and financial obligations. Further, it provides strategic direction on all of OST's major projects and programs. Board composition is representative of the wide-ranging coastal and marine interests in California, resulting in broad perspectives that help transcend institutional gaps in knowledge, communication and partnership that impede the production, dissemination and digestion of science relevant to coastal and marine policy and management.

As designated in OST's enabling legislation, the California Ocean Resources Stewardship Act of 2000 (CORSA), ten voting members form OST's Board. The Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency, the Secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency and the Director of Finance each appoint one trustee. The Natural Resources Secretary receives nominations for the remaining seven trustees and appoints the trustees as follows: three trustees representing the California State University and the University of California; two trustees representing ocean and coastal interest groups of the state; and, two trustees representing the general public. In addition, by virtue of office or position, OST's Board contains ex officio members.

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Our Board of Trustees

Mr. Ken Wiseman, Board of Trustees Chair, General Public Representative
Dr. Barry Gold, Vice Chair, Ocean and Coastal Interest Group Representative
Honorable Fred Keeley, Chair, Audit and Finance Subcommittee, CSU/UC Representative
Mr. Jonathon Bishop, CAL EPA Representative
Ms. Catherine Kuhlman, Natural Resources Agency Representative
Dr. David D. Caron, CSU/UC Representative
Dr. Kenneth Coale, CSU/UC Representative
Ms. Karen Finn, Dept of Finance Representative
Ms. Leslie Mintz Tamminen, Ocean and Coastal Interest Group Representative
Dr. Stephen Weisberg, General Public Representative


OST's board has one reporting subcommittee:

Finance and Audit subcommittee

Mr. Fred Keeley, Chair, CSU/UC Representative
Ms. Karen Finn, CSU/UC Representative
Dr. Barry Gold Ocean and Coastal Interest Group Representative
Mr. Ken Wiseman, General Public Representative


Our Governing Documents


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