John
T. Everett. Dr.
Everett comes from a fishing family and worked 31 years in 13 positions in
the Federal Government as a researcher, analyst and manager in fisheries
and ocean programs. He is President of Ocean Associates, Inc. and is Manager
of the UN
Atlas of the Oceans (http://www.oceansatlas.org) for the UN Food and Agriculture
Organization, Rome, Italy. The Atlas is CD-ROM and Internet-based, containing
information relevant to sustainable development of the oceans and to the advancement
of ocean science. He provides consulting services on oceans and fisheries policy
and sustainability, global climate change and impacts at the global and local
level on fisheries and on oceans, including adaptation strategies. He also
owns OceansArt.US and TechnologySite,
web based businesses that provide free ocean-related photos and sell high-resolution
versions and prints. He provides, on both
sites, digital
camera tips, picture
editing tips, photo
downloading tips, and instruction on how to compare
and buy a digital camera. His Federal positions included: Senate
Commerce Committee (Ocean Policy Study) staff, Staff to NOAA Administrator,
NOAA Fisheries Dir. of Policy and Planning, Manager of Dolphin/Tuna
research, and Chief of Fisheries Development. He has chaired or co-chaired
several impact analyses (fisheries, Polar Regions, Oceans, and Coastal
Zones) by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and serves
on the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Ecosystem Indicators of
Climate Change. He recently testified in Congress about climate change
and was interviewed by a major TV network. He put the materials he
prepared on a new site called Climate
Change Facts which he hopes will provide unbiased truth about climate
change. Until recently he was Chief of the NOAA Fisheries Division
of Research. Prior to NOAA, he coordinated launches in the Apollo Program at
Cape Kennedy and was a commercial fisherman in Massachusetts. He holds a Doctorate
and Masters from Florida State U. in Business (Research Management), and a
Bachelors from the Univ. of Massachusetts in Engineering.