ADM (ret) Paul G. Gaffney, II, was the seventh president of Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey, before becoming president emeritus. Admiral Gaffney was the Chief of Naval Research with responsibility for science and technology investment for the Navy and Marine Corps then Commander of Naval Oceanography and Meteorology; he commanded the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and was appointed by President George W. Bush to the United States Commission on Ocean Policy, and served through the full term of the Commission.