New York Sea Grant Institute names Bunting-Howarth interim director

ITHACA, N.Y. — The New York Sea Grant (NYSG) board of governors and Stony Brook University Provost Michael Bernstein have approved the appointment of Katherine Bunting-Howarth as interim director of the NYSG Institute.

She succeeds William Wise, who retired as director of New York Sea Grant in late June after a more than 40-year career in marine and environmental sciences.

Bunting-Howarth has served as an associate director of New York Sea Grant since 2011 and will maintain that title. She will also continue as assistant director of Cornell University Cooperative Extension where NYSG maintains an office, the organization said in a news release.

“I am honored by this interim appointment and the opportunity to provide leadership at the helm of the New York Sea Grant program. Together, as a team, the staff of New York Sea Grant will continue to excel at ‘Bringing Science to the Shore’ to serve New York State’s marine and freshwater communities,” Bunting-Howarth said in the release.

Bunting-Howarth holds a Ph.D. in marine studies with a concentration in marine policy from the University of Delaware and a law degree with a certificate in environmental and natural-resource law from the University of Oregon.

Bunting-Howarth will maintain an office at 112 Rice Hall at Cornell University in Ithaca and will also work from 125 Nassau Hall on the Stony Brook campus on Long Island.

New York Sea Grant, a cooperative program of Cornell University and SUNY, is one of 33 university-based programs under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s national Sea Grant college program.

Contact Reinhardt at ereinhardt@cnybj.com

Photo credit: R.J. Anderson, New York Sea Grant website