Advisors

Dr. Victor Lyatkher has completed seventeen design projects as a consultant to Natural Currents projects. Dr. Lyatkher has directed the Environmental and Clean Energy Initiative of the USSR Academy of Science. He has designed and constructed new floating hydropower and wind power systems. He has published 13 technical books, more than 200 articles and has developed over 50 related patents.

Dr. Peter Henderson has 30 years of experience in applied ecological research and lectures on population ecology and ecological methods at the University of Oxford. He is a specialist in population dynamics and tropical an temperate crustacean and fish ecology. Peter has worked extensively on the conservation of wetlands and is an experienced population modeller.

George G. Sharp, INC. Over 91 years after its founding, SHARP remains dedicated to the professional design of economic, cost-effective ships, ship systems and other marine structures for both commercial and military purposes.  The only significant changes in the picture have been in the technology, types of vessels and techniques of analysis.

Dr. Thomas Goreau is President of the Global Coral Reef Alliance, a non-profit organization for coral reef protection and sustainable management, and Coordinator of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development Partnership in New Technologies for Small Island Developing States. He has dived longer and in more coral reefs around the world than any coral scientist. His father was the world’s first diving marine scientist, and he grew up swimming in coral reefs as soon as he could walk.