Dr. William A. Karp
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Title: |
Deputy Science & Research Director, Alaska Region |
| Division: |
Office of the Center Director |
| Email: |
Bill.Karp@noaa.gov |
| Address: |
Alaska Fisheries Science Center
NMFS/NOAA/DOC
7600 Sand Point Way N.E., Building 4
Seattle, Washington 98115
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Current Activities
Bill Karp was appointed AFSC Deputy Director on 4 January 2008. As AFSC Deputy, Bill provides the services of chief operating officer for the Center, guiding program planning and development, workforce development, administration, fiscal management, facilities oversight, IT systems oversight, and safety and environmental compliance actions.
Bill also is active in the ICES (International Council for Exploration of the Sea) community and is the AFSC lead for the Center’s cooperative agreement with the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research. He is a Senior Fellow of the Council for Excellence in Government.
Background
Bill served as Director of the Fisheries Monitoring and Analysis Division from 2003 until his appointment as AFSC Deputy Director and as the Program Manager for the North Pacific Groundfish Observer Program for a six-year period before FMA was established as a separate division. He managed the Midwater Assessment and Conservation Engineering (MACE) Program between 1999 and 2003 and has more than 15 years of public- and private-sector experience in the field of fisheries acoustics. Bill worked closely with the North Pacific Fishery Management Council and the NMFS Alaska Regional Office on fishery monitoring and catch estimation issues. He was the regional representative on the National Observer Program Advisory Team and chaired the steering committee for the NMFS National Bycatch Report Initiative.
Bill was awarded a B.Sc. in Applied Biology by Liverpool John Moores University (UK) in 1972 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Fisheries by the University of Washington in 1975 and 1982. He worked in the private sector before coming to AFSC in 1985 as a fishery research biologist with the Midwater Assessment and Conservation Engineering (MACE) Program of the Center’s RACE Division.
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