Leigh Zimmermann: National Oceanographic Partnership Program Coordinator, CORE Research Division

Tel: (202) 448-1225
Email: lzimmermann@oceanleadership.org

Leigh joined the Consortium for Ocean Leadership in early 2008 as the Program Coordinator for the National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP). As Program Coordinator, she facilitates and supports meetings of NOPP committees, organizes NOPP funding announcements and reviews, and ensures that NOPP continues to provide a forum for inter-agency partnerships. Prior to joining Ocean Leadership, Leigh worked as an Outreach Coordinator for START, a non-profit organization aimed at raising public awareness of harmful algal blooms in southwest Florida, and as a Sea Grant Fellow with NOAA’s Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research in Silver Spring, MD.

Leigh received her B.S. in Environmental Studies from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She loved living in a beach town so much that she decided to stay and complete her M.S. in Marine Science, where she researched phytoplankton ecology. Although she no longer wears flip flops year round, Leigh still tries to be in or on the water (ocean, river, lake, pool…puddle) as much as possible.