Contact Us

To contact the Research Board, please email:

griquestions@aibs.org

For administrative inquiries about GoMRI, please contact:

Dr. Michael (Mike) Carron
Program Director
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative
Office Phone: 228-688-2687
Email: michael.carron@gomri.org

Kevin Shaw
Program Manager
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative
Office Phone: 251-223-2080
Email: kevin.shaw@gomri.org

Kristen Yarincik
Program Management Lead, RFP-I
Office Phone: 202-448-1237
Email: kyarincik@oceanleadership.org 

For questions regarding proposal review, please contact:

Leigh Zimmermann 
Program Management Lead, RFP-II 
Email: lzimmermann@oceanleadership.org
Office Phone: 202-448-1225

For questions regarding data management, please contact:

Jim Gibeaut
Director, Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information and Data Cooperative 
Email: james.gibeaut@gomri.org
Office Phone: 361-825-2060

For grant management inquiries, please contact:

Derek Herr
Financial Reporting Lead
Email: dherr@oceanleadership.org
Office Phone: 202-787-1626

Jeanine Hubler 
Research Agreement Lead
Email: jhubler@oceanleadership.org
Office Phone: 202-787-1631

For other media inquiries, please contact:

Kevin Wheeler

Email: kwheeler@oceanleadership.org
Phone: 202-448-1219

For all GoMRI Website-Related Issues, please contact:

Will Ramos
Email wramos@oceanleadership.org