Gulf of Alaska Keeper

Born in 1961 in Ketchikan, Ted is a lifelong Alaskan who has been messing about in boats since the tender age of two (or less) when his parents first took him out in the ir boat. At the time, they were living in Ketchikan Alaska. Ted’s family moved from Southeast Alaska to Anchorage in 1968 and he lives there to this day. Ted’s interests include photography, dogs, the sea, boating, fishing, computers, and running. This combination of interests has meshed perfectly with his position as the cleanup field manager for GoAK. Ted’s duties include leading the crew and boats down the coastline, planning the attack, documenting the effort with photos and video, and getting the images online for the world to see. Here is a sterile but necessary list of some of his history:

• Co-founder of Prince William Sound Keeper
• Co-founder of Gulf of Alaska Keeper
• Gulf of Alaska Keeper MD Remediation beach cleanup field manager 2006 to present
• Co-founder of the Prince William Sound Volunteer Beach Cleanup
• Owner/Operator of Alaska Walkabout Charters in Whittier Alaska, from 1993 to 2006. He specialized in fishing charters, water taxi services, and tours
• Commercial fisherman 1980-1993
• Licensed boat captain from 1993 to present
• Studied Computer technology at Charter College in Anchorage Alaska from 2004 to 2006

The dog in the photo is named Bryn. He has been guarding the crew from all manner of dangers for the past three seasons and shares many of Ted’s interests.

  Paul is one of our board members and Co founders. His interests include hunting, fishing, boating, snowshoeing, skiing, biking, snowmobiling, and more. Paul has been involved with many types of careers including: carpentry, surveying, and backcountry guiding.

• Co-founder Prince William Sound Keeper

• Co-founder Gulf of Alaska Keeper

• 24 years Prince William Sound boating experience

• PWS Volunteer Beach Cleanup participant

• Co-owner Alaska River and Ski Tours

• Member Whittier Coast Guard Auxiliary

• Federal Express 1985 to present

Gerry has called Alaska home since 1975 when he moved here from
Seattle with his family to work for the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Three of his four grown children and their families including four of his five grandsons and a great-granddaughter are Alaskans. Gerry has been a year-round resident of Whittier since 1995.

Since first visiting the Sound on a family boating trip in 1980, Gerry has been enraptured with the Sound’s natural beauty and wildlife. This led him to quit his career with the USFWS and start a charter business in 1987 which is now in its 21st year. All totaled, Gerry has enjoyed exploring the Sound for 29 years while logging over 100,000 boating miles that included skippering over 3,000 charter boat trips. In the years following the EVOS, Gerry interrupted his business to work on spill related projects for the City of Whittier, the USFWS and the US Forest Service.

Gerry’s education includes a BS in Fisheries Biology from Humboldt
State University and a year of post-graduate oceanography and biology
courses at the University of Washington. His varied career in
oceanography and marine biology included tours with the UW
Oceanography Department, the Smithsonian Institution, and the
National Marine Fisheries Service, where he supervised or
participated in projects on seabirds, oceanography, plankton, and
marine mammals.

He recently served on the Public Advisory Committee of the Exxon
Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council and on the boards of the Alaska
Wilderness Recreation and Tourism Association and Prince William
Soundkeeper. He currently is a member of the Whittier Watershed
Council and the Resource Advisory Committee for Chugach National
Forest. Gerry enjoys photography, hiking, cross-country skiing,
bicycling, reading, writing, Celtic folk music, spiritual growth and
Bible study.

Gerry Sanger
Sound Eco Adventures
PO Box 707
Whittier, AK 99693 USA
Toll-Free: 888-471-2312
Cell: 907-242-0637
Local Phone/Fax: 907-472-2312
http://www.soundecoadventure.com

• Owner, Symbiotes, Inc., computer specialist, software consultant

• Trustee, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Recreational Plaintiff Fish and Wildlife Habitat Enhancement Trust Fund

• 25 years of Prince William Sound experience

• 4-year participant in PWS Beach Volunteer Cleanup