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MRS 2025 Organizing Committee

LEADERSHIP

RADM M.T.Bell Jr., USCG (Ret.)

2025 CO-CHAIR

Dean, School of Arctic and Climate Security Studies

Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies 

RADM Richard V. Timme, USCG (Ret.)

2025 SENIOR ADVISOR

Timme Maritime Consulting

Richard.V.Timme@gmail.com

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Christine Duprow

STUDENT POSTER CHAIR

Curriculum Development Specialist, School of Arctic and Climate Security Studies, Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies 

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Maj Gen Randy "Church" Kee, USAF (Ret.)

2025 CHAIR

Director, Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies

Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Anchorage Alaska

biography 

LTC Kevin Clement, USA (Ret.)

2025 VICE CHAIR

University of Houston

(co-chair, MRS 2021)

Greg Trauthwein

MEDIA PARTNER AND COMMUNICATIONS

President, New Wave Media

Maritime Reporter & Engineering News, MarineLink.com

SENIOR MENTORS

VADM Rob Parker, USCG (Ret.)

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RADM Fred Rosa, USCG (Ret.) â€‹

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Dr. Fred Roberts

Ph.D., Rutgers University

Scott Blough

Google (co-chair, MRS 2017)

RADM Mike Parks, USCG (Ret.) 

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RDML Scott Clendenin, USCG (Ret.)

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Eric "Coop" Cooper
Senior Policy Researcher, RAND, Santa Monica, California

U.S. Coast Guard, CAPT (Ret.)

https://www.rand.org/about/people/c/cooper_eric.html

SENIOR ADVISORS

Dr. John Hummel

Argonne National Laboratory

(co-chair, MRS 2022)

LTC Craig Moss, USA, (Ret.)

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

(co-chair, MRS 2018)

Dr. David Nicol

Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

(co-chair, MRS 2020)

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Zack Schulman

USCG (DCO-X)

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Stan Gold

Coast Guard ATLANTIC AREA

Dr. Jack McCready

University of San Diego

CAPT Art Gomez, USCG (Ret.)

SERCO

Rick Paxton

Paxton Holdings, Inc.

CDR Megan Trivett

USCG (DCO-X)

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CAPT Tony Russell, USCG (Ret.) 

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CAPT Al Tubbs, USCGR (Ret.)

USCGR PACAREA

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CDR Oscar Carbajal

USCGR - USCGR District 11 Liaison

Colonel Randy Pugh, USMC (Ret.)

Vice Provost

Dr. Kelli Frakes

American Public University System

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CAPT Joseph "Grant" Thomas, Jr. 

USCG Chair to the Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies

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CAPT Buddy Custard, USCG (Ret.)

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