Christopher Hayes Email & Phone Number

Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Washington D.C. Metro Area

In addition to connecting the NOAA Administrator with congressional members, I work with NOAA leadership to identify and articulate NOAA priorities. I also coordinate development of Congressional testimony, Questions for the Record (QFRs), hearing transcripts, Legislative Referral Memorandums (LRMs), presidential proclamations, views letters, and enrolled.

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

Silver Spring, MD

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

Ushered Department priorities forward in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Inflation Reduction Act, & CHIPS and Science Act.

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

Project Manager for NOAA's Diversity & Inclusion strategic plan with detail in NOAA Office of Inclusion and Civil Rights. Separately, developing model of fishery compliance in northeast groundfish fishery.

Silver Spring, MD

• Coordinate National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Sea Grant College Program (NSGCP) planning and evaluation processeso Conduct an external performance review panel of 33 state programso Develop.
• Organize Sea Grant, academic, and NOAA social science capacity to improve leveraging opportunities
• Represent NOAA in writing portions of the inter-agency (National Ocean Policy) Strategic Action Plan by identifying National priorities
• Manage $3M Fellowship that places 52 Graduate Fellows in legislative and executive host offices in the DC Area for one year
• Manage Sea Grant’s regional and programmatic efforts as Regional Coordinator and Program Officer
• Oversee two Sea Grant Programs as Program Officer (including attending Technical Review Panels, approving annual reports, managing awards through Grants Online, and communicating priorities)

Washington, DC

• Assimilate and manage large state and federal fisheries databases
• Provide data for state and federal agencies research, stock assessments, and data workshops
• Develop new databases and expand the existing data warehouse
• Lead a Bycatch Prioritization Committee of 23 Atlantic coastal resource agencies

• Investigate the socio-economic effects of imported shrimp
• Empower fishermen to develop educational videos
• Represent NOAA Fisheries at an international seafood exposition
• Tag sharks in a two-week leg of a shark bottom-longline research cruise

Thesis topic: Stock assessment of three hammerhead shark species. Advisor: Dr. Yan Jiao.

Collect data for environmental toxicology studies.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Fishing And Fisheries Sciences And Management

Master Of Science, Fisheries Science

Bachelor Of Science, Ecology

Rotary Top 12 - top leadership prospect of the College of Environment and Design

International Honors Program - Global Ecology

Activities and Societies: Over the course of an academic year, I visited England, India, the Philippines, New Zealand, and Mexico to study.