J. Michael Hemsley, Deputy Director for Coastal Operations
Ocean.US

Mike Hemsley works for the University of Southern Mississippi Department of Marine Science and is currently funded by NOAA to serve as the Deputy Director for Coastal Operations for Ocean.US. After graduating from The Johns Hopkins University with a degree in geophysical fluid mechanics, Mr. Hemsley served as an officer in the US Army Corps of Engineers, eventually retiring from the US Army Reserve. During his military service, he received a MS in coastal engineering from The George Washington University. Beginning in 1980, he was a Federal civilian employee, first at the Corps of Engineers’ Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERC) then at NOAA’s National Data Buoy Center (NDBC), until his retirement from Federal service.