New Marine Institute CEO Looks Forward to Realising Opportunities The Oceans Present

8th January 2024

Afloat.ie Team

Dr Rick Officer is the new Chief Executive of the Marine Institute, the State's marine research agency

The new Chief Executive of the State marine research agency, Dr Rick Officer, takes up duty this morning, (Monday, January 8).

He has been Vice-President for Research and Innovation at the Atlantic Technological University, established in April 2022 when three Institutes of Technology – Galway/Mayo, Sligo and Letterkenny, with over 20,000 students - were merged.

He is looking forward to embracing the challenges and realising opportunities that the oceans present.

In this podcast interview, he tells me that he is looking forward to embracing the challenges and realising opportunities that the oceans present. “There are huge economic imperatives and opportunities that will require an enormous amount of greater knowledge to navigate towards achieving these possibilities.”

Dr Officer previously worked with the Marine Institute eighteen years ago. He says that demand for its services is expanding.

Listen to the Podcast below

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