Timothy Gallaudet
Timothy Gallaudet | |
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Gallaudet in 2017 | |
| Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere | |
| In office October 25, 2017 – January 20, 2021 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Mark E. Schaefer |
| Succeeded by | Benjamin Friedman (acting) |
| Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and Administrator of NOAA | |
| In office October 25, 2017 – February 24, 2019 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Benjamin Friedman (acting) |
| Succeeded by | Neil Jacobs (acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 18, 1967 Hollywood, California, U.S. |
| Education | United States Naval Academy (BS) Scripps Institution of Oceanography (MS, PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Oceanography |
| Institutions | U.S. Navy |
| Thesis | Shallow water acoustic backscatter and reverberation measurements using a 68-kHz cylindrical array (2001) |
| Doctoral advisor | Christian de Moustier |
| Military career | |
| Allegiance | United States |
| Branch | United States Navy |
| Years of service | 1985–2017 |
| Rank | Rear admiral |
| Commands | Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command |
Timothy Cole Gallaudet is an American oceanographer and retired Rear Admiral in the United States Navy. Gallaudet worked for the U.S. Department of Commerce as the Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and Acting Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). As of 2024 he is the CEO of Ocean STL Consulting, LLC., and hosts The American Blue Economy Podcast.
Gallaudet is a prominent member of the UFO community. He says he has seen footage of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) and unidentified submerged objects (USO) while on active duty in the U.S. Navy, and has expressed support for David Grusch's whistleblower claims in US Congress, calling for the "de-stigmatization" of the subject across science, the military and the general public. He is on the advisory board of Americans for Safe Aerospace, which describes itself as a "military pilot-led nonprofit organization focused on UAP". He is a research affiliate with Avi Loeb's The Galileo Project that searches for evidence of extraterrestrial technological artifacts.