M. Richard (Rick) DeVoe

Rick DeVoe is Executive Director of the S.C. Sea Grant Consortium, a position he has held since 1997. Rick also is a Research Associate of the Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine Biology and Coastal Research at the University of South Carolina, and Associate Faculty Member of the Graduate Program in Marine Biology and Adjunct Faculty Member with the Marine Environmental Studies Graduate Program at the College of Charleston (SC). He earned degrees from Fairleigh Dickinson University, CUNY/City College of New York, and the University of Rhode Island.

Rick currently serves as program manager and Principal Investigator for the NOAA CSC planning grant for the development of the Southeast Coastal Ocean Observations Regional Association (SECOORA). In that position, he served as co-Vice Chair of the National Federation of Regional Associations (NFRA) prior to its formal incorporation. Rick was elected as treasurer of NFRA upon its incorporation, and currently serves on the NFRA Executive Committee. He also served as a member of the Southeast Atlantic Coastal Ocean Observing System (SEACOOS) Board of Directors.

Nationally, Rick is a member of the Executive Committee of the NASULGC Board on Oceans and Atmosphere, the Federal-State Task Team of the NSTC Subcommittee on Integrated Management of Ocean Resources (SIMOR), and the External Linkages Advisory Committee of the Oceans and Human Health Center at NOAA Hollings Marine Laboratory. Rick is Past-President of the Sea Grant Association (SGA), and currently serves as chair of the SGA External Relations Committee. He co-chairs the SGA Coastal Hazards program planning committee, serves on the SGA Marine Aquaculture program planning committee, and has previously served as the Education Delegate for SGA’s Program Mission Committee.

Regionally, Rick serves on the Boards of Directors of the Low Country Institute (Spring Island, SC), the Deedee Paschal Barrier Island Trust (Dewees Island, SC), the Slocum-Lunz Foundation, and the Noisette Foundation (North Charleston, SC); the S.C. Water Resources Center Advisory Board, and the North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Advisory Committee. He serves as vice president of the 113 Calhoun Street Foundation Board of Directors, and chairs the South Carolina Task Group on Harmful Algae.