Regional Directorate Team

The Regional Directorate Team manages U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service activities in the 13-state Northeast Region, from Maine to Virginia and West Virginia. Team members are based in the Hadley, Mass., regional office, where approximately 200 employees work. Another 700 employees work in field stations from Aroostook National Wildlife Refuge in northern Maine to the Southwestern Virginia Field Office in Abingdon.

Credit: USFWS/Heather Bell Marvin E. Moriarty, Regional Director

Marvin Moriarty began working for the Service in 1972 on wetland and water quality restoration in the Delaware and Chesapeake bays. He worked in Service field offices in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia.

In 1978, Moriarty began working for ecological services in Washington, D.C., where he was coastal zone management coordinator, then program coordinator for program development staff, and finally branch chief of permits and licenses. He went to Atlanta, Ga., as the assistant regional director for enhancement, but he returned to Washington the following year to become division chief of ecological services. Moriarty became chief of endangered species in Washington, followed by a year as deputy assistant director of fish and wildlife enhancement.

In 1988 he moved to Minneapolis to be deputy regional director for the Midwest Region, a position he held until he became regional director for the Northeast Region in 2003.

Moriarty served in the U.S. Marine Corps and the Marine Corps Reserve. He holds a bachelor's degree in biology from St. Joseph's College.

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Credit: USFWS/Heather Bell Wendi Weber, Deputy Regional Director

Wendi Weber came to the Northeast Region from the Midwest Region, based in Minneapolis, where she was assistant regional director for ecological services. She managed that region’s programs for endangered species, national wetlands inventory, environmental contaminants, natural resource damage assessment, coastal conservation and review of federal projects.

Weber’s previous job was chief of endangered species in the Service’s Northwest Region based in Portland, Ore. She also worked for the Service’s endangered species and international affairs programs in Washington, D.C., for three years.

Prior to working for the Service, Weber worked for the states of Florida and Georgia as a field biologist. She has been deputy regional director for the Northeast Region since 2007.

Weber has a bachelor’s degree in zoology from the University of Rhode Island and a master’s degree in fisheries from the University of Georgia.

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Credit: USFWS/Heather Bell Richard O. Bennett, Ph.D., Regional Scientist

Rick Bennett began working for the Service as chief of the contaminants program at the Annapolis, Md., field office in 1989. He then worked for the Washington, D.C., office in fish and wildlife management assistance until he was selected as the deputy assistant regional director for fisheries in the Northeast Region. He subsequently served as the assistant regional director for migratory birds and state programs, and then as one of two geographic assistant regional directors, working closely with all Service programs in six states. Bennett served the region’s deputy regional director for five years until he was named regional scientist in 2007.

As regional scientist, Bennett guides the region's efforts on topics such as strategic habitat conservation, climate change, and national initiatives including amphibian and reptile conservation, ocean science inititives, and science coordination across programs and agencies. He has been with the Service's Northeast Region since 1993.

Prior to working for the Service, Bennett was a member of the faculty at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, in Baltimore.

Bennett has a bachelor’s degree in marine biology from Farleigh Dickinson University, a master’s degree in biology from Adelphi University, and a doctorate in aquatic pathology from the University of Rhode Island.

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Credit: USFWS/Heather Bell James G. Geiger, Ph.D., Assistant Regional Director - Fisheries

Jamie Geiger began his career with the Service in 1978 as a fisheries research biologist at the Southeastern Fish Cultural Laboratory in Marion, Ala. Then he worked for Texas Parks and Wildlife Department as assistant chief of hatcheries on an intergovernmental assignment. He went on to be scientific director of the Service's Fish Culture Research Laboratory in West Virginia and then moved to Washington, D.C., to be division chief for fish and wildlife management assistance.

Geiger came to the Northeast Region as assistant regional director for fisheries and federal aid in 1993. The region's fisheries program has 27 national fish hatcheries, fisheries management offices, and a fishery center focusing on fish health and technology.

Geiger has a bachelor's degree in biology from Tulane University, a master's degree specializing in insect physiology/biochemistry from Virginia Commonwealth University, and a doctorate in zoology from Virginia Tech.

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