Dr. Kumar Mahadevan, President
Mote Marine Laboratory

Kumar Mahadevan is President and CEO of Mote Marine Laboratory, an independent nonprofit marine research and education organization that includes a public aquarium. He manages a staff of 230 and 1,500 volunteers. He serves on the Board of Directors for the JASON Foundation for Education and the Florida Ocean Alliance, and is a member of the Explorers Club. He is a Benthic Ecologist by training, with specific research interests in the investigation of man-induced ecological disturbances. Dr. Mahadevan's studies have addressed a diverse array of topics, such as the effects of deep-water munitions dumps in the North Atlantic abyssal plain, the effect of power generation facilities in Southwest Florida waters, the effects of oil refinery effluents, and physiological studies of arctic (Point Barrow) benthic fauna.