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Distinguished Scripps alumni congratulate the class of 2020.

RDML Timothy Gallaudet, MS '91, PhD '01
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and Deputy NOAA Administrator

Jessica U. Meir, PhD '09
NASA astronaut, marine biologist, physiologist

Noelle Bowlin `02, MS `11, PhD `16
CalCOFI Program Leader
NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center

VADM Brian Brown, MS '87
Commander, Naval Information Forces

Jeffrey Stein, PhD '91
President and Chief Executive Officer
Cidara Therapeutics

Octavio Aburto-Orpeza, PhD '09
Associate Professor, Marine Biology Division
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego

Susan Roberts, PhD '86
Director, Ocean Studies Board
The National Academies

James Cairns, PhD '74
Owner, Abyssal Systems; Executive Director, Cairns Foundation, Inc.; Founder, inventor, Ocean Design, Inc.

Miriam Goldstein, MS '08, PhD '12
Managing Director for Energy & Environmental Policy
Director of Ocean Policy, Center for American Progress

Kim Cobb, PhD '02
ADVANCE Professor & Georgia Power Faculty Scholar
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology