Bringing indigenous, coastal communities, and scientific knowledge holders together in open, honest and safe spaces to ensure resilient, equitable and respectful context-specific kelp forest stewardship and restoration approaches and site selection
Trevyn is a restoration ecologist and postdoctoral researcher at NCEAS where he is synthesizing and evaluating various approaches to deep-sea coral restoration. Prior to joining NCEAS, Trevyn studied marine biology at Duke University before completing his Ph.D. at the University of Auckland in New Zealand and a prior postdoctoral position at North Carolina State University.
Maggie was a Projects Data Coordinator for the Arctic Data Center. Through this position, she helped researchers submit and archive their data so that their research is findable, reusable, and reproducible. Maggie is interested in utilizing data science to facilitate ecological research. Earlier in her career, she worked for California States Parks, as a biological consultant, and as a lab manager at UC Santa Barbara. Maggie holds a Master’s in Ecology from UC Santa Barbara where she studied the interaction between climate and herbivory on California plant communities.
As a Research Software Engineer Alyona focuses on advancing big data collection and discovery. Alyona is trained in astrophysics and astronomical data processing. In addition to her academic experience, she built a career as a full-stack software engineer. Alyona led critical projects improving the infrastructure and user experience of Hulu, Disney, and Airtable applications. On her YouTube channel, Dork Matter Girl (https://www.youtube.com/@dorkmattergirl), Alyona explores scientific theories of consciousness with silly cats and memes.
Robert was a Software Developer at NCEAS working on tools to help researchers more easily access and store information. He works primarily in back-end web development, creating APIs for both UI consumption and direct access for research. Robert has a strong background in academic software development and web technologies. His experience spans the full web development stack.
Mai was a Post-Doctoral Scholar conducting research with a Gulf Ecosystem Initiative working group on the impact of severe weather on fisheries. Her doctoral research focused on understanding eutrophication and its interactions with mercury cycling. Mai completed a Ph.D. in marine sciences from the University of South Alabama and an M.P.H. in public health and a B.A. in molecular and cell biology from UC Berkeley.
Marisa (she/her/hers) was a postdoctoral scholar investigating the environmental and economic costs of plastic pollution and marine debris in the United States. Prior to graduate school, she worked as a scientific diver to help manage invertebrate fisheries off the coast of California. Her doctoral work assessed Palmyra Atoll’s communities (terrestrial arthropods and parasites in marine fish) to understand how species distributions changed with scale. She also focused on using Bayesian techniques to account for imperfect detection in community surveys. Marisa completed a Ph.D.
The Conservation Aquaculture Research Team is a collaboration focused on understanding the sustainability potential for farming marine aquatic plant and animal species, or aquaculture.
Principal Investigator(s): Rachel Neugarten, Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, Lee Hannah, Christina M. Kennedy
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