Partners & Ambassadors

With over 40 years of diving and conservation experience Lad overseas the Frost Science conservation programs, vessel and diving operations.  He also continues to work in the dive industry as a captain and instructor at Quiescence Diving Services in Key Largo and volunteers as the Executive Director of WAVAlliance.

As a NAUI scuba instructor with over 12,000 dives, and the Founding Executive Director of the Reef Environmental Education Foundation, Lad is an inductee in the Scuba Diving Hall of Fame (class of 2016). Lad has served as a US Delegate on the Bi-National Commission on Marine Protected Areas with South Africa, piloted submersibles to assess fish assemblages at depths over 500’, saturated undersea for 8 days as an aquanaut, and discovered and described new species of fish in the Gulf of Mexico.  Lad has been recognized as NOAA Environmental Hero, an Oris Sea Hero, Scuba Diving Hero of the Sea and is a recipient of the Eleanor Fletcher Lifetime Achievement Award. 

Lad is world renowned authority on invasive lionfish, co-authoring over 30 peer reviewed papers. Lad’s current focus at Frost Science is on developing and implementing conservation programs to protect and restore Florida’s Coral Reef.