Topic: Coastal and Nearshore Environment

Jim Barry serves as a member of the Fellowship & Curriculum Committee at the Center for Ocean Solutions.  He is a benthic ecologist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) studying several aspects of the biology and ecology of marine organisms and communities.

Alexandria is working with other researchers to shape the COS Land-Sea Initiative. She is an associate professor in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University.

Meg Caldwell serves as the executive director for the Center for Ocean Solutions.  She also directs the Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Program at Stanford Law School, where her research and teaching focuses on the use of science in environmental and marine resource policy development and implementation as well as private and public incentives for natural resource conservation.

Larry Crowder is the science director at the Center for Ocean Solutions (COS). He is also a professor of biology at Hopkins Marine Station and a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, both part of Stanford University. Previously, he was the Stephen Toth Professor of Marine Biology at Duke University. 

Mark W. Denny is a member of the Center for Ocean Solutions Fellowship & Curriculum Committee. He is also the John B. Jean DeNault Professor in Marine Sciences at Hopkins Marine Station. 

Jamie Dunckley is an early career fellow working on the Kelp Forest Observatory, a device located in Monterey Bay that monitors oceanographic data.

Rod Fujita is a visiting fellow with the Center for Ocean Solutions, working on Marine Spatial Planning, managing for ecosystem resilience, characterization and control of cumulative impacts, and the development of markets for unpriced ecosystem services. 

Dr. Chris Harrold is Director of Conservation Research at the Monterey Bay Aquarium where he has worked since 1985. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Stanford University and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz. The focus of Chris' research has been marine ecology of nearshore and deep-sea marine ecosystems.

Tegan C. Hoffmann, Ph.D, leads the firm Blue Earth Consultants, LLC, which has collaborated on a number of key strategic efforts with The Center for Ocean Solutions (COS), most notably with its Pacific Ocean Initiative (POI).  Blue Earth Consultants was instrumental in facilitating every stage of this seminal project’s conceptualization, organization and implementation. 

John N. (“Jack”) Kittinger is an early career fellow with a background as a human geographer and coastal ecologist with broad interests in understanding and advancing solutions to complex problems that face society and the ocean environment.