Board of Trustees
George Breed – retired general counsel and senior vice president of PMI Group Inc. and PMI Mortgage Insurance Co; board member of the Hydrocephalus Association, the San Francisco Police Activities League and the St. Francis (Hospital) Foundation.
Bill Buck – multimedia producer currently filming the series Bay Wild, an environmental documentary highlighting wildlife in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Zeke Grader – attorney and executive director of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations, which represents working men and women in the West coast commercial fishing fleet.
Terrance Gosliner – senior curator for Invertebrate Zoology and Geology at the California Academy of Sciences.
Francesca Koe, Vice President – multi-agency SCUBA instructor, freediver and co-founder of the tsunami relief project, Paavima.org; senior editor for Deeperblue.com; Vice President of the United States Apnea Association.
Susan McComb, President – partner with BAR Architects, specializing in sustainable building design; volunteer with the Gulf of the Farallones Marine Sanctuary and the Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association (FMSA) for over a decade.
George Orbelian – author of Essential Surfing and former surfboard design editor for Surfing Magazine; board member at the Center for Functional Research.
Allan Schreiber –retired teacher and educator, voice actor whose credits include voiceovers for FMSA public service announcements; volunteer with the Beach Watch program.
Ed Ueber – former superintendent of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary and recently retired from a career with the National Park Service.
Penny Wells, Secretary – marine enthusiast and sea kayaking expert.
Bob Wilson, Treasurer – retired lawyer with the federal government; volunteer with the Beach Watch program; actively involved with various non-profit conservation organizations, including The Marine Mammal Center and Polar Bears International. |

1995: The Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association (FMSA) is created to direct community resources and provide financial and programmatic support to the GFNMS and the areas it manages
1996: FMSA takes over coordination of Beach Watch Program, which is cited in the Congressional Record as a significant volunteer program of the DOC
1996: Beach Watch and its volunteers are also recognized as vital in the response and clean up of the Cape Mohican oil spill
1997: The SEALS program is established to document the impact of human activity on harbor seals in Tomales Bay and Bolinas Lagoon
1998: The first National Marine Sanctuary visitor center is established in the Presidio, in just five months there are 4,500 visitors
1998: Beach Watch responds to the Command oil spill off of San Mateo County and Fine funds are obtained by GFNMS for itself and Monterey Bay NMS
1999: FMSA Coordinates 150 volunteers contributing 38,500 hours, the equivalent of 19 full-time employees
1999: Beach Watch assesses natural resource damages for the Point Reyes National Seashore oil spill
1999: SEALS volunteers eliminate disturbance of harbor seals by clam diggers on Clam and Seal islands in Bolinas Bay
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