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Staff

Meg Caldwell

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

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.

Adina Abeles

As the director of education and training for the Center for Ocean Solutions, Adina works to provide decision-maker education, workshop and training opportunities, and to enhance graduate marine programs in the Monterey Bay region.

Nora Deans

As communications manager, Nora oversees the Center for Ocean Solutions communications program. Prior to joining the COS team, Nora directed communications and outreach for the North Pacific Research Board (NPRB) in Alaska, helping to build a clear understanding of the Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea and North Pacific ecosystems.

Masako Esparragoza

Masako Esparragoza is the office manager at the Center for Ocean Solutions. Masako has worked at Stanford University for over nine years in the capacities of office manager, project coordinator and executive assistant.

Kimberly Gordon

In her role as program manager of the Fisheries Leadership & Sustainability Forum, Kimberly strives to promote healthy oceans and fisheries through supporting the US fishery management process and building capacity among decision makers.

Eric Hartge

Eric is a research analyst with the Center for Ocean Solutions (COS) focusing on coastal climate change adaptation planning. He joined COS as a research and curriculum development intern in November 2010.

Lucie Hazen

Lucie Hazen joined COS in February 2011 as a research analyst where she works with Science Director Larry Crowder to build COS’s science vision. To date, she has focused on coordinating COS interdisciplinary working groups and co-organized the COS Ocean Policy course in summer 2011.

John Henderschedt

John Henderschedt is the executive director of the Fisheries Leadership and Sustainability Forum.

Elodie Le Cornu

Elodie Le Cornu is a research analyst at COS, where she works on the Human Dimensions of Ocean Planning (HDOP) aspects of our Ecosystem Health focal area.

Rebecca G. Martone

Rebecca Martone is the program lead for COS's Ecosystem Health focal area where she works to integrate natural and social science with policy and management to inform solutions supporting healthy and resilient coastal and marine ecosystems. An empirical ecologist, Rebecca's work has focused on ecosystem-based management and ecosystem services research.

Karen Marvin

Karen provides communications consulting to the Center for Ocean Solutions. She helps this young organization build its communications programs and brand including media relations, web development and publications.

Tom Van Maele

As COS finance and operations manager, Tom leads and coordinates our financial and administration activities.

Fellows

Rod Fujita

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.

Elliott Hazen

A visiting fellow at the Center for Ocean Solutions, Elliott Hazen is involved in programs assessing ocean and climate effects on marine ecosystems.

Ryan Kelly

Ryan Kelly is a visiting fellow with Stanford University's Center for Ocean Solutions. Ryan's role is to bridge the divide between hard scientific data and policymakers' use of those data, bringing both technical and legal analysis to bear on issues affecting the coastal ocean.

Jane Lubchenco

Jane Lubchenco, former administrator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under President Obama, is a visiting fellow at the Center for Ocean Solutions. She is working in an advisory capacity with the Center’s executive director, Meg Caldwell, and the Center’s science director, Larry Crowder, from April through June 2013.

S. Hoyt Peckham

Hoyt Peckham is a visiting fellow with COS and director of Fisheries Science with the Grupo Tortuguero de las Californias, AC, in La Paz, Mexico.

Meredith Bennett

Meredith Bennett is an early career law and policy fellow working on our Ecosystem Health focal area. She joined COS after working as a law clerk for the Indiana Court of Appeals.

Myriah Cornwell

Myriah is a Stanford Woods-Packard Fellow working with COS and the Packard Foundation on projects on the eradication of invasive species that threaten seabird populations of the Pacific Ocean, the mitigation of albatross and petrel bycatch, and the conservation of shorebird habitat along the Pacific Flyway.

Jamie Dunckley

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

Ashley Erickson

Ashley Erickson joined the Center for Ocean Solutions as an early career law and policy fellow in September 2011. At COS, she combines her national policy experience with her legal background in her work on COS’s coastal and marine spatial planning and climate change adaptation initiatives.

John N. ("Jack") Kittinger

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.

Megan Mach

Megan Mach is an early career fellow working in COS's Ecosystem Health focal area with a focus on integrating science and management in the oversight of marine systems.

Jesse Port

Jesse Port joined the Center for Ocean Solutions as an early career science and policy fellow in January 2013. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Washington School of Public Health, where he was an investigator within the Pacific Northwest Center for Human Health and Ocean Studies.

Erin Prahler

Erin Prahler is an early career policy Fellow with the Center for Ocean Solutions (COS), where she focuses on marine spatial planning and the regulation of coastal and marine resources.

Kevan Yamahara

Kevan is a science early career fellow working with the Center for Ocean Solutions’ (COS) Land-Sea Interactions focal area. He completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Stanford University on coastal water quality research with Professor Alexandria Boehm. In partnership with MBARI, this research is the focus of his fellowship with COS.

Interns

Willow Battista

Willow joined COS as a research intern in January 2013. She works with COS Visiting Fellow Rod Fujita, Ph.D., on governance and policy design in threshold-based ecosystems.

Kara Fisher

Kara Fisher joined COS as a research intern in September 2012. Her primary focus at COS is taking a policy and legal approach in researching dynamic ocean management and marine protected areas.

Michael Fox

Mike joined the Center for Ocean Solutions as a research intern in November 2009. He works primarily on the COS Climate Change focal area, helping to synthesize climate science for local decision-makers around the Monterey Bay area.

Liz Hambleton

Liz joined COS as a research intern in July 2012. Her primary responsibility is assisting a COS research analyst with projects related to COS’s working groups. She also teams with COS staff members working on special projects and helps plan and execute workshops.

J. Zachary Koehn

Zach started as a research intern with COS in April, 2011 with a project investigating the effects of coastal armoring on waterfront and non-waterfront properties. Currently he utilizes his interest in socio-ecological systems in his on-going research with COS.

Corina Marks

Corina Marks joined COS as a research intern in June 2012. She works on a project ground-truthing a cumulative impacts model (Halpern, et. al.2009) that addresses multiple human activities such as fishing and dredging on near-shore ecosystems within the California Current. She is also a geographic information systems (GIS) specialist.

Lindley Mease

Lindley joined COS as a research assistant in September 2012. She works with two COS early career fellows who are researching the use of ecological thresholds in management strategies.

David Weiskopf

David joined the Center for Ocean Solutions as a legal research assistant in spring 2011. He is a J.D. student at Stanford Law School ('13) and an M.S. student in Stanford University's Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources ('13).

Sara Worden

Sara joined Center for Ocean Solutions as the science communications intern in May 2012. She writes content for the COS website, informational publications and press releases.