NOAA names Sarah Fangman and Lisa Symons to key posts at Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
July 1, 2017
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Sarah Fangman,
new FKNMS Superintendent.
Lisa Symons,
new FKNMS Deputy Superintendent.
NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries is pleased to announce that Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary Superintendent, Sarah Fangman, has been selected as the new superintendent of Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and Lisa Symons has been tapped as deputy superintendent of the sanctuary. The effective date for these changes is July 23, 2017.
Sarah Fangman is currently the superintendent of Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary in Georgia and has been with the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries since 1998. Fangman previously served at Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary in Santa Barbara, California.
Lisa Symons is currently serving as Acting Deputy Superintendent of Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Symons joined NOAA in 1991 and began working as the Damage Assessment and Resource Protection Coordinator for NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries in 1998.
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary protects 2,900 square nautical miles of critical marine habitat, including coral reef, hard bottom, sea grass meadows, mangrove communities and sand flats, as well as shipwrecks and maritime heritage resources. NOAA and the state of Florida manage the sanctuary. Visit us at http://floridakeys.noaa.gov, find us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
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