Naomi McIntosh, USA, Chair & Corresponding Officer, NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries Pacific Islands Region

Tundi Agardy, USA, Sound Seas

Brad Barr, USA, NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries

Arne Bjorge, Norway, Institute of Marine Research

Douglas DeMaster, USA, NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center

Mike Donoghue, Samoa, Conservation International

Scott Gende, USA, National Park Service

Erich Hoyt, UK, Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society

Miguel Iñíguez, Argentina, IWC Scientific Committee

Michiko Martin, USA, NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries

David Mattila, USA, NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale NMS and Technical Advisor to IWC Secretariat

Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara, Italy, Tethys Research Institute

José Truda Palazzo, Jr., Brazil, Truda Palazzo & Associates

Oscar Ramirez, Mexico, Comision Nacional de Areas Naturales Protegidas

Vincent Ridoux, France, University of La Rochelle

Philipe Robert, France, Agence des Aires Marine Protegees

Lorenzo Rojas Bracho, Mexico, Instituto Nacional de Ecología