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Stan Rogers is the Superintendent of Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary located off the coast of Georgia. Superintendent Rogers will provide a presentation on the ecological and cultural connections across the South Atlantic Bight highlighting decades of monitoring and scientific research conducted by Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary and partners. The presentation will also provide an overview of current management activities and a look-ahead at upcoming management plan review, 30X30 initiatives, and how you can get involved.

As Superintendent of Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary, Stan directs resource protection, scientific research and monitoring, education and outreach, and marine operations including two research vessels and Scuba diving activities. Prior to joining the Sanctuary in 2019, he led policy, planning, and communications efforts for the NOAA Restoration Center in NOAA Fisheries’ Office of Habitat Conservation, and led Endangered Species Act consultations on word-wide U.S. Navy Training and Testing Activities. Prior to working at NOAA, Stan was a natural and cultural resources program manager for the Department of the Air Force overseeing these programs at 26 military installations across the Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawai’i, Greenland, Ascension Island, and Antigua and leading conservation law enforcement program agency-wide. Stan is a native of the Lowcountry and a Clemson grad. Go Tigers!