Erica Rule
Erica Rule
Erica Rule is the chief of staff at NOAA's Southeast Fisheries Science Center. In this role she serves as a strategic advisor and counselor to the center director and senior leadership team leading the day-to-day operations, budget execution, and information flow for the center's directorate. Erica also leads the center’s congressional engagement.
Prior to working in NOAA Fisheries, Erica worked as the communications director at NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory. In this capacity she led strategic communications, congressional affairs, public affairs, digital communications and website design, science planning and evaluation, and strategic planning. Erica also established an internship program for science communications and served on NOAA’s Regional Collaboration teams in the Northeast, Southeast, and Caribbean. Erica is a graduate of NOAA's Leadership Competency Development Program where she completed details in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (deputy superintendent) and with the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System Program Office (deputy director). Erica earned a Bachelor of Science in biology at the University of Mary Washington in 1997, then came to the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science to study marine affairs and policy. She graduated in 1999 with a Master of Arts and began her career at the NOAA in Miami.