Our Team

Ocean Exchange Team

Liesl Hotaling

President of Eidos Education

Liesl Hotaling is President of Eidos Education and is a Senior Research Engineering with the College of Marine Sciences, University of South Florida. She holds a B.S. in Marine Science, a M.A.T. in Science Teaching, and a M.S. in Maritime Systems (ocean engineering). She serves as the Vice President for Communications and Publications for the Marine Technology Society, serves as the Project Manager of the Student Enabled Network of Sensors for the Environment using Innovative Technology (SENSE IT) and specializes in real time data education projects and hands-on STEM educational projects supporting environmental observing networks.

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Testimonials

“The delegates are a very strategically chosen body of individuals. Virtually everyone who attends Ocean Exchange has the capacity to open doors.”

“When you bring an eclectic mix of highly intelligent, passionate people together, that’s when lightning strikes.”

“Ocean Exchange is entirely different from any of the other organizations that I’m involved in. It is about sustainable innovation. I think it’s also very different in the extremely broad range of stakeholders that it involves.”