Meet the people that make SWOT possible.
Founders & Directors
The SWOT Program was founded in 2003 by Roderic Mast and Brian Hutchinson, who continue to lead the effort today.
Roderic B. Mast
Oceanic Society & IUCN-SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group
Brian J. Hutchinson
Oceanic Society & IUCN-SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group
SWOT Report Team
Producing the annual State of the World’s Sea Turtles (SWOT) Report is a team effort involving design, cartography, writing, editing, data management, and more.
Editorial Team
Roderic B. Mast (Chief Editor)
Brian J. Hutchinson
Ashleigh Bandimere
Patricia Elena Villegas
Graphic Design
Miya Su Rowe
Maps & Data
Ashleigh Bandimere
Connie Kot
Andrew DiMatteo
Ei Fujioka
Science Advisor
Bryan Wallace
Science Advisory Board
SWOT’s science advisory board helped develop our data protection protocols, mapping standards, and minimum data standards for nesting beach monitoring.
Bryan Wallace (Chair)
Ecolibrium, Inc., Duke University Marine Lab, & IUCN-SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group
Milani Chaloupka
Ecological Modelling, Inc.
Michael Coyne
SEATURTLE.ORG
Scott Eckert
WIDECAST (Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network
Marc Girondot
Université Paris-Sud
Brendan Godley
Marine Turtle Research Group
Connie Kot
Duke University
Colin Limpus
Queensland Environmental Protection Agency
Neca Marcovaldi
Projeto TAMAR
Nicolas J. Pilcher
Marine Research Foundation
Jeffrey Seminoff
National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center