The College of the Environment Executive Committee provides a forum for information sharing, consultation and discussion of academic, administrative, and research policies and issues.
The Executive Committee is made up of the directors and chairs of each major department of the College along with the senior leadership of the Dean’s office. Major departments include degree-granting units as well as independent research and outreach units as determined by the Dean.
Committee membership
- Maya Tolstoy, Maggie Walker dean
- Becky Alexander, director, Program on Climate Change
- Dan Brown, director, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
- Shuyi Chen, associate dean for research
- Megan Dethier, director, Friday Harbor Laboratories
- Nives Dolšak, director, School of Marine and Environmental Affairs
- Tim Essington, director, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
- Beth Gardner, director, Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management
- Corey Garza, associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion
- Gary Handwerk, director, Program on the Environment
- Stephanie Harrington, associate dean of administration
- John Horne, director, Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean and Ecosystem Studies
- Rick Keil, director, School of Oceanography
- Kate Litle, interim director, Washington Sea Grant
- John Meyer, interim chief communications officer
- Kerry Naish, director, Marine Biology
- Ben Packard, executive director, EarthLab
- Julia Parrish, associate dean of academic affairs
- Eric Steig, chair, Department of Earth and Space Sciences
- Joel Thornton, chair, Department of Atmospheric Sciences
