Officers

Advisory Board

Eileen Estrada

Eileen Estrada is a Global Heath Safety and Environmental Advisor. She is a fellow alumna of the Bridgeport Regional Vocational Aquaculture School in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Eileen attended Massachusetts Maritime Academy, where she received a B.S. in Marine Safety and Environmental Protection. She now attends the American Military University, and has a M.S. in Emergency and Disaster Management. Eileen is currently employed at MODEC International Incorporated. Eileen is a crucial member of our advisory board. She has supplied us with books on oil spills and most of our statistical data, such as how many barrels of oil are spilt per year. Eileen has sent us a book entitled Hazardous Materials and Waste Management, otherwise known as a HAZMAT teaching tool. Eileen has taught us about the culture of Japan as well as Brazil and helped us in deciding which companies to target and how our marketing strategy must play out. Eileen and our team have had many phone conferences and we e-mail back and forth. Eileen has provided us with tons of information and helps us to research our questions concerning offloading vessels and how they operate. She has explained what kind of needs the vessels have such as the need of a strong unbreakable storage container like Plexiglas to store the product aboard the boats. Eileen is a great help and a very nice person to work with.

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Marc Zimmer

Marc Zimmer is our Green Fluorescent Protein scientist. He is the author of the highly acclaimed book “Glowing Genes” which we are reading in class and learning about GFP which is an essential part of our project. Marc is now a professor at Southern Connecticut State University and has continuously aided us with facts about GFP and on how to manipulate the glowing gene into the genome of our bacterium Pseudomonas putida. Marc answers a lot of our scientific questions and if he does not know the answer off hand he find someone who does and gets back to us with information as fast as he can.

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Carolyn Kelley

Carolyn Kelley is our CTCC Advisor. She is a part of the education connection and keeps us up to date on all upcoming events in relation to the global challenge. Carolyn Kelley met with our team to help get our project started and on track. She has given us advice about specific facts and ideas we will need to explain in depth to aid others understand our project. Overall Mrs. Kelley has provided us with a great deal of advice that helped us to develop our project to its full potential.

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Edward Veillette

Edward Veillette is an oil man that has over twenty six years of experience with working in the oil industry. He has provided us with facts about different classes of oil and unique facts about them such as toxicity levels and their physical properties. This is important to our project because different oils require different methods of cleaning. Some oils are more harmful to the environment than others. Mr. Veillette is the go-to guy when it comes to questions about oil.

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Rene Sanz

Rene Sanz is our analytical chemist he has been teaching at the Bridgeport Regional Vocational Aquaculture School for twenty four years and has a master’s degree in clinical chemistry. He has been twenty years of experience working in an actual lab. He has a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and biology; he has begun teaching medical microbiology at the University of Bridgeport and owns two medical labs. Mr. Sanz has provided us with the use of three Spectronic 20 Spectrophotometers so we could learn about the electromagnetic spectrum and the lambda max of GFP which will be important while developing our project.

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