Leadership
CMR Leadership
Interim Director
Dana Yoerger
Senior Scientist and Co-Director
Deep Submergence Laboratory
508 289-2608 | dyoerger@whoi.edu
Institutional Relations
Laurence Madin, Ph.D.
Executive Vice President and Director of Research
508 289-2515 | lmadin@whoi.edu
CMR Advisory Board
Gary Roughead (Chairman)
WHOI Trustee, former Chief of Naval Operations
James Cameron
Academy Award winning screen writer, director and producer, and deep sea expedition leader.
Larry Clark
WHOI Corporation Member, President, Deerbrook Charitable Trust, former Director of Division of Ocean Sciences, NSF
David Mindel
Professor Aeronautics and Astronautics, Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing, Director Laboratory for Automation Robotics and Society, MIT
Hagen Schempf
Principal Systems Scientist, Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute, and Director of Hazardous Environments Robotics Lab.
Jean Tempel
WHOI Trustee, Managing Director, First Light Capital, Director, Sonesta International Hotels and Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Chuck Thorpe
Provost, Clarkson University, former Assistant Director, Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, OSTP, former Director of Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute and dean CMU, Qatar
John Tylko
Vice President of Business Development, Aurora Flight Sciences