Ed Levine retired from NOAA as the Response Operations Supervisor – East for the Office of Response & Restoration’ s Emergency Response Division. As such, he supervised the Scientific Support Coordinators from Maine to Louisiana. Prior to this assignment, he was the Scientific Support Coordinator in NYC, covering the area from Connecticut to Delaware for 28 years. 

He has participated in hundreds of incidents involving oil spills, chemical releases, and other emergency responses, locally, nationally, and internationally. Additionally, he has taught, reviewed, written, collaborated, participated, and presented at numerous trainings, exercises, drills, conferences, meetings, and classes. 

Most recently, he served as the Vice Chair of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine publication “Oil in the Sea IV: Inputs, Fates, and Effects” (2022) and as chair of the Gulf-Alaska Knowledge Exchange workshop series (2025). 

In 2024, he served as the Environmental Unit Leader for the incident involving the MV Dali’s collision with the Key Bridge and the subsequent collapse. He currently operates his own consulting company. Ed earned a Master’s degree in Marine Sciences from the University of Puerto Rico.

You can contribute to Ed’s GoFundMe project here – https://www.gofundme.com/f/permanent-memorial-for-morro-castle-victims