Dr. Everett comes from a fishing family and worked 31 years in 13 positions in NOAA/National Marine Fisheries Service as a researcher, analyst and manager in climate change, oceans, fisheries, and administrative programs. He is CEO of the Everett-Vehrs Conservation and Research Foundation. He founded and served as President of Ocean Associates, Inc. (OAI) during its growth to become a significant Federal contractor. He was Manager and Chief Editor of the UN Atlas of the Oceans for a decade during its development. The Atlas focuses on sustainable use of the oceans and the advancement of ocean science.
He personally studies and consults on climate change, oceans and fisheries
policy and sustainability, and ecosystem and fisheries relationships. He supports
the OAI CEO in managing OAI’s business management, scientific and policy
services. The focus has been on fisheries, protected resources, their
environment, oceans, and aquaculture, now expanding to admin, IT, and general
engineering. Work ranges from lab dissections to stock and habitat assessments,
to regulatory advice and enforcement support, to supply chain management –
working in over 30 states, the Arctic, Antarctica, and several countries.
Dr. Everett retired from NOAA as Chief of the Fisheries Research Division,
coordinating the national program in research, and managing scientific
reporting, program planning and evaluation, and Scientific Publications. Federal
positions included: Senate Commerce Committee staff (NOAA oversight), Staff
to NOAA Administrator (NMFS Oversight), Fisheries Dir. of Policy and
Planning, Manager of Dolphin/Tuna research, and Chief of Fisheries
Development He chaired scientific analyses (Fisheries, Polar Regions, Oceans,
and Coastal Zones) by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and
served on the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Ecosystem Indicators of
Climate Change. He has testified in Congress (House and Senate) on the
impacts of climate change on fisheries and oceans, on forage fish management,
on ocean acidification, and on the BP oil spill. He managed bycatch reduction
research and fishing and sampling gear development and designed and testified
on dolphin assessment methods. He prepared coastal communities for climate
cooling in the 1970s. Prior to NOAA, he coordinated launches in the Apollo
Program at Cape Kennedy and was a commercial fisherman out of Cape Cod.
He holds a Doctorate and Masters from Florida State Univ. focused on systems
analysis, natural resources research and management, and on quantitative
methods. He is indebted to the vision of Dr. William Royce, who encouraged
him to pursue doctoral studies in Management, and to his father, John R.
Everett who taught him respect for and love of the oceans, and that because of
the “foggy day rule” (there are not enough enforcers), fishermen had to help
develop regulations. He also has a BS from the Univ. of Mass. in Engineering.
His contributions on ecosystem analysis, climate change, and other fields has
been made possible by the abilities he gained to think outside-the-box,
integrating many fields of study, thanks to, his father and Dr. Royce.
Dr. Everett is a Life Member of American Fisheries Society and the Beta
Gamma Sigma academic honor society. He is a Member of the Marine
Technology Society, the Coastal Conservation Assoc., and the Buzzards Bay
and the Chesapeake Bay Foundations. Examples of his recent work and that of
OAI and EVCARF are available at these links.