Porter Hoagland

Porter Hoagland is a research specialist at WHOI’s Marine Policy Center (MPC), where he has been analyzing economic and policy questions associated with the human use of the oceans for over 20 years. He has worked in a number of areas, including fisheries management, aquaculture in the oceans, the impacts of red tides, and the management of underwater cultural resources. As a recreational sailor, he has a special interest in relying upon ocean wind as a source of energy. In collaboration with his MPC colleagues, Hauke Kite-Powell and Mary Schumacher, Porter helped organize WHOI’s “National Workshop on the Siting of Wind Power in the Coastal Ocean” last October.