- Mitchell Tartt
- National Marine Sanctuary Program
Mitchell Tartt is a physical scientist for NOAA’s National Marine Sanctuary Program specializing in marine ecology. He is stationed in Silver Spring, Maryland near his home town of Washington D.C. Growing up climbing and fishing the mountains of the east coast and the Rockies, Mitchell began his college career studying terrestrial ecology, but after a single course on coral reef ecology that all changed. He completed his Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Science from the University of Colorado in 1991 and his Masters of Science in Marine Ecology from the University of Maryland in 1998. Mitchell’s focused his graduate studies on coral reef systems and specifically the impact of nutrient loading on the algal communities of those systems. Today, Mitchell is a member of the Technical Services Division at the NMSP head quarters office and supports the conservation science program. He also serves as the National Dive Coordinator for the NMSP.
