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|May 26, 2011, 03:23 AM
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Yep. You are right of course. The AI "playing to win" makes the game not fun at all to play. The AI should be there to enhance the experience of the player, provide a decent challenge and play competently.
Your link to the video in the Denouncing!!!!!! thread was very good.
It's very clear that Soren Johnson had a key to the pulse of Civ players. He helped with Civ III and really listened to the fans with cIV. Very smart man that one. Unfortunately, he isn't an option in the future as he has fully embraced the dumbing down and streamlining of games.
Jon Shafer just tried to implement his vision of what he thought was fun.
Apparently he loved multiplayer in Civ III above all else and it showed. His AI in Civilization 5 was supposed to replicate the multiplayer experience. Rage quitting and lots of insulting.
The dumb thing is why have the AI try to act like a human (a very dumb human of course) when you can just play a human in multiplayer???
Not that multiplayer works or anything.
Just a thorough disaster. The sad thing is that Civilization 5 probably sold well enough and enough people bought the crappy DLC that they'll just turn around and do the same thing a few years from now. The future is bleak.
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|May 26, 2011, 03:50 AM
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Let's document GolbalDefines.xml!
---Now playing a far better game: EU3.
Don't tell me I can't post here just because I don't enjoy civ5. I'm allowed to express my opinion civilly, yet civ5 defenders seem to resort to insults and attack me personally. Why are they so upset?
|May 26, 2011, 05:46 AM
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I would advice everyone to try few games on Epic spd with 0 city states and at least King difficulty with Random Personalities on. On random maps.
Im hooked on my current game more than 700 turns atm, almost a week, and the war for domination is pretty tough. No loading either, other than when needed to close the PC.
The AI even captured cities that I had multiple wonders in them and burn them to he ground, while I was on the other side of the continent fighting.
It was fun when dropped my happiness to -50 (multiple spawns of modern tank barbarians every other turn isn't funny either), and my money to -190, (cut off my routes too) destroying my armies.
It set me back at least 200 years
The war continues on.
|May 26, 2011, 06:42 AM
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The AI are just are insane and ungrateful as ever. No matter what I did in my last game, it lead to everyone other than Genghis Khan (perpetually Friendly) to alternate between denouncing me and being friendly.
Playing as Rome/Emp/Cont/Large/Epic, up until halfway through the Renaissance I was engaged in a 3/4 way battle - Japan to the North and Aztecs to the East declaring war on me alternately. Songhai was in the North-East, though not attacking me, rather on the receiving end of the Japanese and Aztecs as well. As it went, I shoved the Aztec expansion out of the mainland of the continent, and took the Japanese down to one city. The Songhai by this point were wiped out, I having taken their cities from the Japanese who had killed them.
Then it's happiness and sunshine for a while, I meet the people on the other continent, etc. Alexander (on the other continent) declares war, I launch a massive naval invasion (only to find it's just one city on an island), eventually get peace. In the meantime the Aztecs and the Arabs (my continent, South East) finish off the English.
Aaaand the Aztecs decide to declare war again. This time I finish them off down to one city. I also decide to liberate the English. The bastards (who used to be a good trading partner with all the cotton) immediate go from friendly to denouncing me. The Aztecs go from brutal war and one city left to Friendly.
Aaaaaaaaand then, Greece declares war again. As they're on the other continent, this amount to me casually killing their military (largest btw) one by one with a single battleship. Japan decides to join in....but is immediately conquered and wiped out, having their canons and riflemen overwhelmed and their last two cities taken by Lhasa. Can't trust those warmongering Tibetians.
I'm probably going to win whatever way I please at this point. Though happiness is an issue (swings up and down over 0), I have a massive empire, and I'm 1750 scorewise to Bismarks 1200.
Basically it was a good game up to the Renaissance with a perpetual war for survival, but then the AI started having mood swings.
War down to one city = Friendly....then denouncing me
Liberation = Friendly for a turn, then Denounces me
Trading partner (Bismark) = Perpetually sulky and guarded
Trading partner (Khan) = Perpetually happy - maybe he likes winners.
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|May 27, 2011, 01:50 PM
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biggest let down ever.
game started off bad and quickly went down the drain for me, i have dial-up enternet access and me a steam dont get along, to well
then when i get the game the Empire wide happiness is realy limiting, the old civ4 system was much better and realistic.
the new policy replacing civics is another thing, civics were alot more realistic, and you could get access to all of them by late game, with policys your stuck with them for live and you have to be playing a culture victory to get enough culture to sue policys in later game.
Carpet-of-doom vs stack-of-doom wow you realy fix the problem firaxis.
and AI are stupid trade is messed up when one empire as 2 gold and i have 2 issence would it not be smart for us to trade, or atleast give me some more 150 gold for it. then there is diplomacy no matter what you do they hate you, i was trying to play a game as arabia maybe go i was aiming at fun merchant empire,(i never play for the victorys) i was in the middle of the pangea surronded by hostile forces, and broke. and no matter what i do the ai hate me cause my army is smaller than theirs.
nothing i did made them happy, every one attack me, it was horrible.
the classical era was over and done with before i could enjoy it, annoying logistics of moving every single unit was a pain. what happen to unhealth, religion, it was such a let down.
then to top off my day it had an update and the game refused to play without the update so i had to wait the 30 hours to play and the update caused more harm the good.
i am sticking to my civ4 mods revdcm, realism invictus, FFH2, and if i can get it install properly rise of mankind a new dawn.
p.s. kind of annoy that the mods are sweeping all the complaints under the carpet too, the game sucks get over it.
|May 27, 2011, 03:39 PM
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Last game, the "weak" germans, emperor, Standard, 10 civs... Ghandi is the runaway, he has atomic weapons, a 70,000 pile of gold, but I decide to invade his continent in a last ditch attempt to stop his running away.
I liberate half his empire (as half of it is puppets from finished Incas and Polys)... what does he do?
Nothing. He takes his pile of gold to his grave. Not a single unit rush buy, not buying atomic weapons to obliterate my invasion army... nothing.
So yes, this Shafer AI wants to win... but does not know HOW.
A serious case of Wishful Thinking AI... good job Shafer!!!!
(Thormodr, my friend and neighbour, disagrees... one day he will see the light too... just wait for his products from Stardock, and you shall see the true quality of this "developer").
|May 27, 2011, 03:57 PM
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|May 27, 2011, 06:31 PM
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|May 27, 2011, 07:03 PM
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well, that video only proves that the previous designer at least knew what he was doing...
|May 27, 2011, 08:11 PM
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|May 28, 2011, 12:20 AM
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|May 28, 2011, 12:45 AM
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My point though is that I wonder how much of the "blame" for Civ V's inherent flaws should really lie on Shafer's shoulders? I don't believe that T2 give their respective studios a lot of freedom although I could be wrong here too. I seem to think that T2 may have said something to the effect of "we want something that is more casual than the others... Make it so" ... Shafer () oversaw their plans. If this is the case, I have to admit, he did a good job of making something someone "casual" probably could get into and enjoy. But at the same time, Firaxis have given the "finger" to their already established fan-base in the process. Hey Mods, a "middle-finger" emoticon would be a great addition!
Hmm, conjecture? Absolutely. I'm sure there are folks here that followed development quite closely. I write all this as all this time, when I've given thought about the absolute pile of that Civ V is, I've always blamed Shafer for it (as I would have Johnson if Civ IV turned out to be a pile of which thankfully it didn't), but since the acquisition, the publisher should take blame too.
After all that, I've said my piece about Civ V many times over now. I'm over it . It's been just over six months since it was released. The game has improved only slightly after countless patches. The DLC push is still going strong. I suspect I can see Firaxis'/T2's drive with Civilization V. It isn't delivering the "best" possible game to the established fans. It's about money and plundering new fans in new markets.
I do not hold my breath for Civilization VI.
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|May 28, 2011, 12:58 AM
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I have no doubt T2/littleflameaxis have a huge part on this... I'm not naive. But the guy added his bragging to it, and now he owns the pile of crap.
In any case, show goes on. Let's see what comes from him at Stardock... in the meanwhile, being one of the early/first buyers of their GalCiv series, any new buy is suspended until new orders... two shaferite products in a row is too much to bear in one century.
|May 28, 2011, 01:20 AM
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I agree with you here too. I love GalCiv. If he's working on any new project involving GalCiv, I won't be buying straight away. I'd be the first to give a to Brad Wardell, but I would retract that if a steaming pile of was to be released under the name of Galactic Civilizations. Hopefully Brad will keep any future project involving that franchise on the straight and narrow.
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|May 28, 2011, 01:42 AM
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In the end, I think the second quote in your signature explains it all...
A little off topic in appearance, but closely related to the core of this thread, so I hope the mods respect that.
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|May 28, 2011, 02:21 AM
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1. I heard 2KGreg bragging about the AI, but not Shafer. Ricardo, do you have a link? The only things I heard from Shafer about the AI is that (a) he isn't an AI programmer, so someone else was brought into the team to program the AI, and (b ) that it's not financially viable for a publisher to invest money in good AI.
2. Sadan01, Shafer was not involved in Elemental's initial failure. Shafer left Firaxis (under circumstances that haven't been revealed to the public and that have triggered a lot of speculation in all kinds of directions) and was hired by Stardock. As far as I remember, he is now part of the Elemental team, but not as a designer, his task is improve the moddability of the engine. I doubt that Stardock can afford separate teams at the moment, so if he's still at Stardock when GalCiv3 comes around, then he'll probably be a part of that team too.
3. Even if Shafer designs or co-designs games in the future, I wouldn't totally exclude the possibility that he has learned from his mistakes, even though he doesn't admit them publicly. I do agree with with the general notion in this thread that Shafer's work on Civ5 left a lot to be desired. And seeing his name on further strategy games will probably raise my skepticism. However, I'd still give them a shot if the rest of the package seems appealing.
|May 28, 2011, 03:40 AM
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RPS: So one of the bigger reasons why you were made lead designer is because you know both sides. Programming and design.
JS: Yes. Which is becoming more common, but to be proficient enough in programming to handle all the gameplay rules, you have to be fairly experienced. We had other designers at Firaxis who were senior to me, but they werent programmers or they hadnt played Civ. Its such a specialised role. Our teams are getting bigger now, so on Civilization V I didnt program all the AI. Only about half. We had a combat programmer doing combat AI, and a programmer doing the AI for the workers and explorers, but I programmed all the game rules and the diplomatic and economic AI.
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|May 28, 2011, 08:25 AM
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When you look at Civ 5, it combines all of the issues his prior contributions had. The AI is atrocious and diplomacy is irrelevant to overall gameplay. There's a big focus on war. The game looks pretty and moves slow. Serious and obvious bugs were shipped. Poor mechanics are present. Interface is poor. And while there are plenty of people at Firaxis who worked on it, Shafer ultimately is the one who called the shots and prioritized things. That he both bragged about the AI and then said in a later forum that he thought there was no point to putting effort into making decent AI is just icing on the cake.
|May 28, 2011, 01:50 PM
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Psy, any more doubts?
|May 28, 2011, 03:08 PM
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Such an awful, awful game.
We shall have to wait and see on Jon Shafer. I have Elemental and since it was such a debacle, I get the next two "expansions" for free. Jon Shafer is working with Derek Paxton (aka Kael) on Elemental: Fallen Enchantress. We'll see what comes out of that. I think Jon Shafer is working mostly on the campaign. So we'll see how good that is when it comes out. (Some time in the fall I believe)
Supposedly, Jon Shafer will be designing his own game for Stardock in the future. Then, I think we'll get a definitive answer on how good his skills are.
Meanwhile, I'm fooling around with the demo for Pride of Nations. It's pretty fun and it's certainly deep and complex. No casual, mass market crap here.
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Kuorilehto T, Nissinen M, Koivunen J, Benson MD, Peltonen J. NF1 tumor suppressor protein and mRNA in skeletal tissues of developing and adult normal mouse and NF-1 deficient embryos. J Bone Miner Res 19:983-989, 2004.
Benson MD, Romero MI, Lush ME, Lu QR, Henkemeyer M, Parada LF. Ephrin-B3 is a myelin-based inhibitor of neurite outgrowth. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 102(430): 10694-9, 2005.
Elefteriou F*, Benson MD*, Sowa H*, Starbuck M, Liu J, Ron D, Parada LF, Karsenty G. ATF4 mediation of NF1 pathology in bone reveals a nutritional basis for congenital skeletal dysplasias. Cell Metab 4(6):441-451, 2006 (cover article). *co-first authors
Benson MD, Opperman LA. Regulation of calvarial bone growth by molecules involved in craniosynostoses. Monographs in Human Genetics. Volume 19, Craniosynostoses: Molecular Genetics, Principles of Diagnosis and Treatment. Muenke M, Kress W, Collmann H, Solomon BD, eds., S. Karger, A.G., 2011.
San Miguel S, Serrano MJ, Sachar A, Henkemeyer M, Svoboda KK, Benson MD. Ephrin reverse signaling controls palate fusion via a Pl3 kinase-dependent mechanism. Dev Dyn 240:357-364, 2011.
Benson MD, Serrano MJ. Ephrin regulation of palate development. Front Physiol 3:376, 2012.
Sachar A, Strom TA, Serrano MJ, Benson MD, Opperman LA, Svoboda KK, Liu X. Osteoblasts responses to three-dimensional nanofibrous gelatin scaffolds. J Biomed Mater Res A 100:3029-41, 2012.
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FABONGRASSS FABONGRASSS Oct 31, 2008 03:17 Flag
Derby day came upon us again, 29th october, 2008, the yiddish faithful squeezed into a small corner of the huge, beautiful creation they call the emirates, hoping for revival and revenge as they hadnt beaten arsenals big boys since, well forever it semed, harry redknapp, the human potato had brought a smile back to the yiddos faces, will it continue in an upturned nature???................................................................
well, they took the pitch and fer once the yiddos were putting effort in and trying to make a game of it and dare i say it, playing football, with real tackles, passes and stuff, 10mins or so into the game that little bugger, bentboy, went and scored a goal the likes of which we may never see again, oh bollocks, thought the mighty arsenal boys, he,s not meant to do that!! so the spurs sang, well at least until flappy, the flappiest keeper in flapland, flapped like a very flappy thing and silvestre nodded home off his shiny head! 1-1....thats more like it! the arsenal crew cheered up and tried to forget bentboy, the arsenal players settled into thier usual role of dominance and very fast feet!
second half began, the crowd were eager, had been a great game so far ...........
arsenal took the lead (obviously, you really shouldnt annoy them you kow) from another set piece and a header from the captain and fellow shiny head gallas!
it was spurs turn to hush up, and think "oh bollox" , the game continued at the fastest pace known to man, both teams giving thier all and after a stunning little move adebayor banged in another... 3-1!! game over??? same old same old, everybody thought,however spurs thought different and the cheeky buggers scored again, fuck you said arsenal, yer asking for it now and zoomed straight up the other end and slammed in a humdinger of a van persie goal, "GAME OVER yer hear??" there faces said to the yiddo upstarts........big mistake, the gas was taken off just a touch, the gear lever was shifted down a notch and you just dont go doing that in a derby game now do you?? the yiddos nipped in with two late late goals, brought on by a cliche slip and a good bit of jenas play (unusual) and then in the fourth minute of time added on when the air was electric, sparks flying from the roof of the emirates, screams of "blow the poxy whistle you cunt" and "where the fuck did the 4 mins come from" were echoing round the stadium and in pubs and homes abuse was being directed at screens in one form or another, modric, the little shite, shot a shot, which both dipped and curved towards the arsenal goal hitting the post.....bouncing out into play again.......and that little shite lennon zipped in and stuck it in the arsenal net!!!! oh dear, gutted, well, sort of, the spurs fans went doolally and who could blame em, the arsenal fans applauded, well they should of in my mind, and old potato head rolled an eye one way, the other eye in a totally different direction and jumped up and down in a very happy potatoey way and whose to blame him?
all in all........a GREAT game, what do we take from it??? a lesson, never take yer foot off the pedal when the game is won, go stick another one in the yiddish net and another and another, just in case.
STILL unbeaten in the league, where the BIG boys play.
roll on the next derby day drama.
much love.
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Evil Bread Man Evil Bread Man Oct 31, 2008 17:24 Flag
I'm getting a little worried about you fabongrass. You mention BIG boys BENTBOYand MUCH LOVE n all that.
Is this really your VIEW from the terrace?
FABONGRASSS FABONGRASSS Oct 20, 2008 05:14 Flag
on the 19th 0f october, 2008, the yiddish faithful travelled to stoke, unfortunately we were bottom of the league, a minor blipp and this was our first step on the ladder of success and world domination.
stoke sat one position above us in the league and this was our chance to climb up a little, it would be a peace of cake, stoke have just come up from the lower league and have no idea how it is in the premiership," we,ll destroy em" shouted the spurs boys "easy" ......
well, you guessed it, we lost 2-1 and were bloody lucky it wasnt more, we,ll sleep bad tonight and all season by the looks of it, until we drop like a stone i guess, what do we do? sack ramos??? but its not his fault surely!!! we sold our strikers after all, SO WHAT DO WE DO???? .....erm.......sink......like the titanic.
oh to be an arsenal fan, do you think we could swap teams without too much fuss from our yiddish friends????? heck, its gotta be worth it huh! lol
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I'm only putting this up to get rid of Flabbongrass's last message. No I am not going to get into what a disliked pratt he is or how even his fellow gooner supporters think he is pathetic (read the Gooners message board if you don't belive me).
I would not stoop that low so I will leave that to others to say.
A Yahoo! User Sep 4, 2008 22:41 Flag
Love the club?? not this dump. fuck off mate
whats the point. theres fuck all to see on the pitch so a view from the terraces is better used as a view of a household recycling dump. At least it smells better too
FABONGRASSS FABONGRASSS Sep 3, 2008 04:51 Flag
Another memory fer yer ter peruse.....
It all came about in the year of our lord 2004.
Arsenal, our mighty rivals( i use the word rival here loosely as we,ve never given em much trouble) came once again on d-day to white hart lane with a view to clinching the title on our sacred turf!
"over our dead bodies" shouted the spurs faithful......
well.......you guessed it huh??
by the third minute, they colossus of a midfielder had made it 0-1, the bugger! we picked the ball out the net and strove with all our hearts to stop this tidle wave which was pouring down on us.....
unfortunately we didnt have it in us (have we really ever) and they scored again in the 35th, that dancing genius they call pires!
the second half came about and the arsenal boys decided to sit down and enjoy a cup of tea and some croissants, whilst they were otherwise engaged we got one back via redknapp (crikey, did he really manage a goal?) anyway on with the story, we struggled on and in the 90th minute our robbie tripped over a croissant eating arsenal leg or summin like that and we drew level, unfortunately the arsenal boys wernt on the pitch, they were dancing about with the premier league trophy. tutt.
oh the glory (just wish it was ours)
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these arsenobs are as welcome as a thistle on the hoop. get 2 f***.
How sad. Argue amongst yourselves like bendtnob and adegayor did during your thrashing.
FABONGRASSS FABONGRASSS Sep 3, 2008 04:12 Flag
one of my fondest memories came about in 1971, arsenal (spurs hated rivals) came to the lane needing to win to clinch the title, "over our dead bodies" the yiddish army shouted!
well, it toughened the spurs boys up if nowt else lad, they wiped thier red and white butts with us, twas a shame but hell we,re used to it now.
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FABONGRASSS FABONGRASSS Sep 3, 2008 05:05 Flag
i,m sorry, the facts became distorted with time and so i had a go further down with something a little fresher.
my apologies, but year after blessed year of us getting beaten by arsenal does that to ones brain, dont you find??
So are you referring to the May 3rd game when the gooners beat us 1-0 (hardly wiping ar$e), because it couldn't have been the 1-1 draw on 24th November, or when we beat you 2-0 at Highbury on 11th May 1972. Go back to Holloway you Pikey!
Evil Bread Man Evil Bread Man Aug 7, 2008 07:27 Flag
Dont you find that the view from the terraces coincides with sods law as you always seem to have the seat with the structural post in the way at the match you REALLY wanted to see
Bring back standing up, always a better view
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Kentish Maid Kentish Maid Aug 30, 2008 04:06 Flag
Sadly being only just a shade over 5ft tall standing at matches isn't my preferred option :-(
I do remember being at the Lane to watch the UEFA Cup Final 2nd leg v Anderlecht in 1984 when we won it (in the days before the final was played on a neutral ground). Having started off relatively near the front I was gradually pushed further back as the game went on. I managed to see Tony Parkes save the penalty though (on his 21st birthday I believe) and wouldn't have missed it for the world.


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|Freeman, Rachel
|B.A., International Studies: Political Science, Southwestern University
Through years of research and work in Latin America, Rachel developed an interest in water issues both from a policy standpoint and out of concern for the real effects they had on the environment and people's lives. From deteriorating aqueduct systems in Panama, to frightening levels of water toxicity and scarcity in Ecuador, she quickly realized the need to go beyond analyzing the infrastructures that continued to fail those they were intended to serve, to finding real solutions, thus propelling her into pursuing a degree through SMEA. She recently completed three years of service as a bilingual teacher with Teach For America, and hopes to find a hands-on career working on water quality and marine conservation issues.
|Giordano, Christopher
|B.S., Marine Science and B.A., Spanish, Eckerd College
Witnessing the economic collapse and the upset anglers experienced during the BP oil spill as an intern spurred Chris towards the sustainable livelihoods approach of fisheries management. Since then he has researched the practicality of applying those methods to different maritime Hispanic communities, especially Cuba. Most recently, he interned with the California Collaborative Fisheries Research Program creating a social survey and strengthening the relationship between local anglers and scientists.
|Gordon, Lindsay
|B.A., Marine Affairs & Policy, Economics, University of Miami
Lindsay has conducted research in the Galapagos Islands while participating in socio-ecological and marine conservation projects, as well as a community outreach program. She also worked for NOAA Fisheries analyzing the ecological and economic health of the shrimp fishery and has contributed to Earth Island Institute's Dolphin Project. Lindsay enjoys working at the interface of natural and social sciences to support optimal environmental management and conservation decisions. Her greatest interest lies in improving the management of marine protected areas.
|Greene, Angelica
|B.A., Psychology and English, University of Arizona
Angelica's background is in social work and family services. Her most recent experience has been in direct practice home visiting for a nationally accredited child abuse prevention and parent education program. Her interests are in social change and the assessment of environmental value in coastal communities. Angelica is also interested in conservation policy and environmental education.
|Greiner, Courtney
|B.S., Environmental Science with an emphasis in marine ecology and minor in geography, Western Washington University
Courtney currently works as a shellfish biologist for the Swinomish Tribe where her primary task includes conducting intertidal and subtidal bivalve biomass surveys to determine harvest quotas. She also implements projects to restore native species and assess climate change impacts on tribally-important shellfish resources. Courtney is attending SMEA to strengthen her ability to conduct research that examines climate change and ocean acidification impacts on shellfish. Her main interest is assessing the effectiveness of mitigation and adaptation strategies in order to better inform management and policy development.
|Hamlin, Haley
|B.S., Environmental Science, Baylor
Fresh out of her undergraduate schooling, Haley is an avid scuba diver and has traveled to over ten countries. She has extensive training in the field of geographic information systems and has worked previously as a veterinary technician at a local animal hospital. She is interested in pursuing a doctorate degree in marine biology to work in the field of marine conservation, specifically the trade industry of marine organisms and the impact of international policy on the management of migratory marine species.
|Hart, Chris
|B.S., Biology, Univ. of Washington
Chris interned with Oceans Research performing marine conservation research projects primarily focused on white sharks in South Africa. While there, Chris helped analyze biological data regarding monitoring of white shark population dynamics, documenting behavioral ecology relating to trophic interactions in Mossel Bay and promoted marine conservation and education out of the Ocean's Research operated public aquarium. He is interested in effective management of marine protected areas, and how public education and outreach can increase the effectiveness of these areas. Chris is also interested in the management of conservation strategies and how these will adapt in the face of increasing climate change.
Hernandez, Jessica
(Tribal affiliations: Maya/Zapotec)
|B.A., Marine Science & Italian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Jessica Hernandez's double major in Marine Science and Italian Studies allowed her to expand her passion for marine affairs with courses, internships and international research. As a Berkeley alumna, Jessica worked in the Coastal Waters Consortium transforming research from multi-disciplinary projects that analyzed the effects of the Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill on the Gulf of Mexico and Terrebonne Bay. She is the founder of Kaknab and co-founder of the Jaws and Paws Foundation, two conservation and educational nonprofits focusing on the oceans and endangered species. Jessica hopes to continue expanding her horizons and professional skill sets at the University of Washington to help implement community-based solutions that will mitigate the harmful impacts environmental problems have on the ocean and the coastal indigenous cultures it sustains. Her long-term goal is to take her educational experiences back to her tribal land and help the Water People manage their environmental resources.
|Hillier, Annie
|B.A., Biology, The Colorado College
Annie strengthened her desire to advocate for healthy oceans while working as a Marine Naturalist aboard tour vessels in Maui. During these four years she came to understand the importance and potential of increased public awareness of the many challenges that the marine environment faces, and worked to empower individuals to become stewards of the environment. She is interested in public outreach as well as designing and implementing whole-systems approaches to managing the sustainability of the oceans.
|Holstein, Danielle
|B.A., Philosophy, Pomona College
Danielle currently works for Seattle Public Utilities, creating educational videos for Seattle residents addressing environmental behavior changes. In addition, she works as a research assistant for Professor Nives Dolsak on a project relating to indicators of well-being in coastal communities. As an undergraduate, Danielle enjoyed research projects from other fields including philosophy, politics, and social psychology. Her interests include behavior change and decision-making, grant writing, and most recently, fisheries.
|Jensen, Kaitlyn
|B.A., Marine Affairs, University of Miami
Since graduating from University of Miami, Kaitlyn has relocated to Seattle where she was an intern at the Port of Seattle in the Travel and Recreation Division. Kaitlyn worked at the Port's recreational facilities, supervising community events and working in everyday marina operations. She is interested in international policy related to marine industries and the environment and practical and realistic application and implementation of those policies.
|Kanayurak, Nicole
|B.A., Environmental Studies, Dartmouth College
Nicole interned with the North Slope Borough Department of Wildlife Management where she reviewed natural resource development projects occurring in the Arctic, participated in marine mammal co-management meetings, and worked on subsistence issues in Alaska. Nicole assisted in conducting coastal beach surveys and collecting data on marine resources. As an undergraduate Nicole was a research assistant who analyzed tundra samples important to climate change research. Nicole is a youth representative to the Inuit Circumpolar Council Food Security Advisory Council and enjoys participating in subsistence activities. She is interested in Arctic policy and co-management particularly as it relates to Indigenous communities.
|Kennard, Haley
|B.A., Global and International Studies, University of California Santa Barbara
Haley lived in Brazil after graduation and worked on a project mapping environmental health risks in coastal slum communities. She then worked in the health non-profit sector and is interested in the interaction between health, poverty, and the environment. She grew up in Hawaii and on the California coast and wants to learn about how those (and other) marine environments and their ecosystems can be protected and their resources managed sustainably and effectively.
|Kralj, James
|B.S., Microbiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
As an undergraduate, James took advantage of numerous research opportunities, both on and off campus. Beginning his sophomore year he used biogeochemical computer models to investigate the impacts of invasive quagga mussels on the ecology of Lake Michigan. James also worked as an Oregon Sea Grant Summer Scholar with the Environmental Protection Agency at the Hatfield Marine Science Center to study the effects of algae on rates of sediment oxidation in several estuaries along the Oregon coast. James was also fortunate to have studied abroad in Ecuador where he learned about and researched the ecology of the Andes Mountains, the Amazon rainforest, and the Galápagos Islands. Additionally, James completed a summer internship at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand where he worked to clone fungal genes into bacteria for drug production. As a student at SMEA, James is greatly looking forward to enhancing his scientific background while simultaneously learning about the social and political aspects of the marine environment.
|Lee, Timothy
|B.A., Environmental Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
As an undergraduate, Tim has interned at NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service here in Seattle, WA, and at National Fisheries Research & Development Institute in South Korea shortly after graduating. In the past few years he has collaborated in interdisciplinary marine science projects and participated in various research cruises with different foci (stock assessment, benthic ecology, and plankton ecology just to name a few) in different parts of the world, including Sea of Japan, Gulf of Mexico, and the Pacific Northwest. He is interested in building management strategies to ensure marine ecosystems' resilience under climate change and other anthropogenic stresses.
|Li, Yunzhou
|Bachelor of Agriculture, Marine Fishery Science and Technology, Ocean University of China
As an undergraduate, Yunzhou worked as a lab assistant and started her own research project at Ocean Univ. of China Student Research Development Program. She also led a team that established a simulated company to promote a biological filter for circulating water cultivation. She is interested in effective management of marine resources and is determined to be an active member in transforming the industry into a more ecologically sustainable and socially responsible one.
|Lyles, Jillian
|B.S., Science of Earth Systems, Cornell University
In the past, Jillian has researched the impacts of physiological stressors and disease on Caribbean Sea fans at Cornell University and the effect of acidification and nutrient availability on Atlantic surf clams at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Most recently, she worked on the Big Island of Hawaii as a teaching/program assistant for Cornell University's Earth & Environmental Science Sustainability Field Semester program. She holds strong interests in implementing traditional/local ecological knowledge (TEK/LEK) with western science, specifically in coupling ecosystem-based management approaches with TEK/LEK to better inform marine resource management decisions.
|Macks, Samantha
|B.S., Marine Science and Biology, University of Tampa
Samantha has been a teaching assistant in a variety of classes at the University of Tampa including Marine Ecology, Marine Botany, Biological Diversity and Biology. She's also assisted in research on seahorses and pipefishes in Tampa Bay. She's interested in understanding the socio-economic issues that surround the management of critical coastal ecosystems. Samantha would eventually like to pursue a career in academia as a professor or researcher.
|McGrew, Scott
|B.S., Management, Excelsior College
LT McGrew has been in the United States Coast Guard for 17 years. He has served at coastal stations on both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts, as well as the Great Lakes. Most recently he served as the Commanding Officer of Station Cape Disappointment in Ilwaco, WA. His unit was responsible for search and rescue, maritime law enforcement, and homeland security at the mouth of the Columbia River, the most dangerous river bar in America. McGrew's station and its 82 personnel ensured the safe passage of over 2 billion dollars in commerce, and thousands of commercial fishing vessels each year. In addition to being a recognized search and rescue professional, McGrew has extensive experience in fisheries law enforcement. The Coast Guard's Living Marine Resource program is sponsoring McGrew's studies at UW. He hopes to gain a greater understanding of coastal and ocean law, public policy, and the science behind fisheries management regimes. His primary area of interest is the sustainment of living marine resources, while balancing the economic impacts of policy and technology changes on small coastal fishing communities.
|McMillin, Neal
|B.A., Economics & B.A., Southern Studies, University of Mississippi
During his undergraduate studies Neal spent a summer backpacking through Scotland and Northern Ireland where he researched the socio-economic and environmental impacts of the emerging wave and tidal energy industry for his undergraduate thesis. This sparked his interest in the transfer of the new renewables sector to U.S. waters.
|McTiernan, Kaylie
|B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Northeastern University
Kaylie graduated from Northeastern University in 2014 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. She loves to travel and spent a year living and working in New Zealand. Focusing on renewable energy, she worked at an ocean wave energy company and completed a wind turbine capstone project. She now hopes to understand how tidal energy can be sustainable taking into account technical, economic, environmental, and human dimensions.
|Mossler, Max
|B.S., Biological Sciences: ecology & evolution, Arizona State University
Finding joy in helping others understand the wonder in science, Max has mostly worked as an educator. Science demonstrations in elementary school classrooms gave way to teaching as an instructor at the Phoenix Zoo; eventually pushing him to pursue an REU grant for education research at the Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies. He is interested in furthering peoples' understanding of environmental issues in hopes of improving overall effectiveness of marine protected areas and other conservation measures.
|Murray, Erin
|B.A., Environmental Studies, Western Washington University
Erin has worked with a variety of governmental agencies and global enterprises and hopes to bring her experiences into her graduate research in order to find innovative solutions to complex aquatic resource management challenges. As a Seattle native, Erin can usually be found identifying resident orcas or local plant and bird species throughout the Northwest. In her undergraduate studies, Erin specialized in Environmental Policy which she utilized while interning with state and local agencies. At the Port of Seattle, Erin worked with their seaport division on superfund remediation and water quality projects. During her work with the Washington Department of Transportation, she identified native species to monitor regrowth of mitigation wetlands. After these internships, Erin worked as content developer at Microsoft where she worked with stakeholders to dictate product narratives for large enterprise customers.
|Naylor-Leyland, Nicholas
|B.A., Liberal Studies, SUNY Purchase
A lifelong fisherman, Nicholas is pleased to be surrounded by water in his new "hometown." Prior to this new phase of life he's worked as a musician/songwriter, a yoga teacher, and as a grants evaluator/facilitator. He just received a SUP instructor certification (and is happy to give lessons to fellow SMEA folks). He's interested in ecosystem-based management, MPAs, fisheries concerns, and the people that have them. He's love to do more fly fishing while living here, in both salt and fresh water.
|Nixon, Marisa
|B.S., Resource Economics and Commerce, University of Rhode Island
During her undergraduate career, Marisa spent a significant amount of time with the Rhode Island Sea Grant Climate Change Collaborative, creating behavior change models and outreach tools to make climate change science more accessible to the public. Post college, she spent two years with a Seattle based non-profit engaging in environmental restoration with volunteers from around the world. Most recently, she has worked for several different organizations that teach marine science aboard sailboats, in the Salish Sea and Caribbean. Marisa is passionate about actively engaging communities in the management of natural resources, and proactively creating policies surrounding the impacts of global climate change.
|Polis, Hilary
|B.S., Oregon State University, Environmental Economics, Policy, and Management and Oceanography
Hilary previously worked for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, where she conducted human dimensions research to help determine the socioeconomic impacts associated with new marine reserves and marine protected areas along the Oregon Coast. She also investigated the ecological impacts of marine reserves on the Great Barrier Reef for her undergraduate thesis. Hilary most recently spent time working with a marine veterinarian and conducting fieldwork off of the coast of Cape Town, South Africa. She seeks to combine her interests in oceanography, social science, and economics at SMEA, where she will study the human dimensions of tidal energy.
|Pucylowski, Teressa
|B.S., Conservation Biology, SUNY – College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Teressa has worked as research assistant for Allied Whale photo identifying humpback whales and gathering data for population studies. She currently works as a whale watching naturalist in Monterey, CA and volunteers Tuna Research and Conservation Center where she is involved in research on the energetics of tuna. She is interested in the effects of climate change, particularly on fishing communities. She would like to focus on marine policy that encompasses both the human aspects of fisheries as wells as the health of the marine populations.
|Rivera, David
|B.S., Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz
David has spent the last five years working for the Joint Institute of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO) a cooperative institute run by UW and NOAA, where he supports a variety of collaborative field research projects at the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL). His interests lie in oceanographic data collection and remote sensing through marine technology and the impact that this technology has on the research community's ability to create policy.
|Rosewall, Sara
|B.S., Marine Science, The Evergreen State College
Sara rediscovered her passion for marine life while completing her undergrad at Evergreen. After graduation, she moved to Seattle and fell in love city, spending time volunteering at the Seattle Aquarium in outreach and conservation. Most recently, Sara has spent the past year and a half working for the Smithsonian Marine Station in Florida, studying benthic and fouling communities throughout the Indian River Lagoon and working for the IMPACT program, helping establish sustainable fisheries throughout the Caribbean. While at SMEA, she is interested in exploring sustainable and responsible management of marine resources while addressing local socio-economic issues to create sustainable and profitable fisheries. Sara's goal is to bridge the gap between developing science and marine policy, at a local and global level.
|Rogier, Thea
|B.A., Biology, UCSB
Thea has worked with the Barbados Sea Turtle Project since 2012 tagging nesting females and in-water juveniles. Her work also involved educational outreach through organized public hatchling releases and fundraising. She has taught a UCSB class on environmental issues including renewable energy and sustainable living. Thea is interested in improving the connection between marine research and local communities that it may benefit.
|Russell, Hannah
|B.S., Conservation and Resource Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Hannah's self-designed major, titled "Environmental Alienation," focused on the deconstruction of the nature-culture dichotomy. She interned at Environmental Defense Fund in the Oceans Innovations program, where she co-authored the paper Cooperative strategies in fisheries management: integrating across scales (Fujita et. al.). She is interested in the application of stewardship theory to the management of small-scale fisheries, the protection of indigenous fishing cultures, the allocation of fishing rights, and the facilitation of mutually beneficial relationships between fisher people and fish conservation scientists.
|Ryan-Penuela, Erin
|B.A., International Communications, Concentration on environmental communication, Franklin University Switzerland
Most recently, Erin co-instructed a series of field based service learning courses in Human Ecology with the Edmonds Community College LEAF School. Previously, she worked with National Geographic Natural History Unit in Washington DC where she worked on films including: Mysteries of the Moose, the Great Inca Rebellion, Sylvia Early Biography, Great Migrations and the Kingdom of the Blue Whale. At SMEA her work focuses on the role of traditional ecological knowledge and indigenous communities in coastal management and near-shore climate change vulnerabilities and mitigation.
|Sayre, Colin
|B.S., Marine Biology, California State University: Long Beach
Colin has worked as a Northwest Pacific Groundfish Observer in Alaska living on board commercial fishing vessels to support ongoing management with the National Marine Fisheries Service. He has also had the opportunity to participate in several survey cruises with CalCOFI and NOAA's RACE division, as well as interning with the Communications and Outreach Department at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center. Most recently he has worked with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife as a Recreational Fisheries Sampler, interacting with the public to collect ocean fisheries and angler demographic data. Colin is interested in introducing ecosystem based management principles into the commercial Bering Sea/Aleutian Island and Gulf of Alaska Groundfish fisheries, effectively communicating the need for such strategies to industry and the public.
|Schmaus, Carrie
|B.S., Biology, Minor in Marine Sciences, Wittenberg University
During her time at Wittenberg University, Schmaus was the president of PoWER (Parliament of Wittenberg's Environmental Revolution), as well as being involved in other campus activities. During her sophomore year, she went abroad and studied at the Duke University Marine Lab, during which she participated in a month-long research cruise to study the abundances of phytoplankton. She also traveled to Singapore to study how a densely populated island has approached environmental issues, from an ecological and political standpoint. She is interested in translating scientific data into effective policy to mitigate the effects of climate change in a way that considers both the human and ecological needs of the area.
|Sivinski, Seth
|B.A., Political Science, University Honors Program, Univ. of Wyoming
Seth focused mostly on international relations and intergovernmental politics in his undergraduate studies. He completed a thesis on environmental ethics dealing with how people rationalize poor environmental stewardship. He hopes to meld these two areas into developing a better way to understand and protect Arctic and northern marine areas and their inhabitants. He has been interested in protecting these areas ever since he flew over the Coast Range and took a ferry to Haines on the way to Alaska's Chilkat mountain range where he was training to be a mountain guide.
|Snouffer, Brian
|B.S., Computer Science, University of Wisconsin
Brian spent 2 years as a software developer for Epic before deciding to quit to pursue marine conservation. He's spent the last year in various internships and volunteer positions around the world while traveling in between. This includes 3 weeks aboard a NOAA research vessel off the coast of California. He also spent 2 months in the Philippines working to make the dive industry more sustainable as well as collaborating with the local marine enforcement to create an education program for fisherman explaining the environmental reason of laws and MPAs. He most recently spent 3 months in Malaysia completing his dive master cert and working as the project coordinator of a newly established turtle conservation group. He is most interested in ecosystem based management practices, especially those using a bottom up approach. He is also interested in utilizing his software development skills and exploring the possibility of data collection through citizen science.
|Sun, Christina
|B.A., Anthropology, Brown University
With family rooted in the shipping industries of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Christina has always been fascinated by the interface of marine environments and human development. After an early start volunteering at Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, Christina has since interned with Save the Bay (Narragansett Bay) and served as an AmeriCorps volunteer in Greater Boston. Her previous projects include educating local fishers about toxic bio-accumulation, documenting cultural landscape changes on the Hawaiian Islands, and researching local understandings of climate change and water resource management policies in Kiribati and its Phoenix Islands Protected Area.
|Szymanowicz, Matthew
|B.Sci., Environmental Science – Ecosystem Studies, University of New Hampshire
Matt has devoted his early career to marine tourism operations. This has included managing an eco-resort at a marine reserve in Belize, developing marine naturalist programs in Alaska and Mexico, and leading sea kayak adventures in the San Juan Islands. He now intends to advance his career in the tourism industry as a leader in sustainable coastal resource management.
|Tanz, Alex
|B.A., Political Studies and Environmental Studies, Pitzer College; J.D., DePaul University College of Law
Alex is an experienced dive instructor and underwater photographer; having made a living out of each in the US and the Bahamas. He's also worked as a Marine Science Interpreter at the Seattle Aquarium, and volunteered as both a diver and an interpreter. During his third year of law school he served as the president of the Environmental Law Society, and spent time in Eastern Kentucky addressing local environmental issues. Alex is particularly interested in Marine Protected Areas, and methods of balancing commercial and recreational uses of marine resources. He would like to use his legal background to craft policy based on scientific approaches to resource management.
|Thomas, Jeffrey
|B.S., Pre-Med, Univ. of Washington; Certificate for Community Health Advocate, North Seattle Comm. College
Since 1989, Jeffrey has been a Senior Fisheries Biologist for the Puyallup Tribe of Indians – Timber, Fish & Wildlife Program Director, where he specializes in serving as a forests and fish endangered species recovery specialist, and as a forest cultural resources protection advisor. He has nearly 30 years work experience with the freshwater aspects of salmonid ecosystems. He wants to continue to work closely with local tribes to integrate cultural resource protection values and local ecosystem-based management, and integrate human/non-human global change responses with the needs of local tribal communities and governments.
|Thorsell, Devon
|B.A., International Affairs, Lafayette College
Devon is a Seattle native and a vocal proponent of west coast living. She spent her undergrad years at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania where she met Tony Blair, had dinner with Jimmy Carter, and traveled to ten countries and four continents. She is pursuing a concurrent degree in Marine Affairs and International studies and is particularly interested in international maritime policy including maritime migration, law, and diplomacy.
|Thuesen, Gretchen
|B.S., Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, Univ. of Washington
Gretchen has spent a considerable amount of her career collecting data in the field, participating in research cruises and field collections in remote locations during undergraduate internships, spending time in Alaska as a NOAA fisheries observer, and working as a Divemaster intern in Panama. Most recently she worked in a lab within the UW Department of Oceanography where she helped maintain an autonomous moored profiling system and time series database focused on monitoring water quality in Puget Sound. She is interested in bridging the divide between hard scientific data and policymakers' use of those data.
|Tracey, Brian
|B.A., Life Sciences, Rutgers Univ.
Brian has worked with the Alaska Observers as a biologist, collecting information aboard commercial fishing vessels and determining species composition of catches. He believes that part of a scientist's duty is to empower the general public with new knowledge and understanding. His goal is for his work to influence public policy, safeguarding priceless and irreplaceable resources for future generations.
|White, Nicole
|B.S., Biology with a Marine Emphasis, Western Washington Univ.
Nicole developed a passion for biological anthropology while studying abroad in Indonesia. While there she participated in several projects that included interviewing maritime Bajau people to discuss the sustainability of their village and their response to resource change over time. She hopes to continue to examine this social/technical response in the future. In addition to this, she has spent the last year conducting LA-ICP-MS on several fish species' otoliths.
|Whiteaker, William
|B.S., Oceanography, Univ. of Washington
Most recently, William has worked for Pacific Physicians Laboratory, and also has a background in all phases of construction. He would like to combine his educational background in oceanography, and his expertise in construction, with the knowledge gained while at SMEA and develop a career working with policy, planning, and overall advising in the area of coastal construction.
|Williams, Trevor
|B.A., Environmental Studies (Specialization in Politics, Public Policy, and Justice), Seattle University
Trevor attended Seattle University for his undergraduate degree, and completed his four years with a B.A. in Environmental Studies, specializing in Politics, Public Policy, and Justice. While attending his undergraduate school, he completed a study abroad in the Turks and Caicos Islands during the summer of 2014. The program studied Marine Protected Area (MPA) policy within the region, and the struggles to sustain the subsistence fishing economy versus the protection of a declining marine species population. He is interested in International Ocean Governance, as well as management of marine resources in an environment that requires a balance between growth needed to sustain a population, and protection of the marine environment. Trevor has enjoyed policy research, field data collection, and analysis related to marine resource protection.
|Wippel, Bryanda
|B.A., Environmental studies, Minors in: Marine Biology, Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences, Univ. of Washington
Bryanda has been working as a laboratory technician at UW's School of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences. She has built ocean acidification experimental systems at Friday Harbor Laboratories and NOAA Mukilteo testing generational effects of ocean acidification on Olympic Oyster and Geoduck larvae. She has also worked with abalone withering syndrome both at UW and most recently building a lab at UCSB; starting a new experiment involving deployment of caged abalone off the coast of Santa Barbra and Los Angeles. Bryanda is interested in using scientific research to educate aquaculture fisheries of how to best combat issues of disease.
|Ziff, Dani
|B.S., Aquatic Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Dani has worked with the Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission conducting field and lab work and completed an internship with the biological resources division of an environmental consulting firm that included biological resource surveys in support of documentation on regulatory compliance. She has also devoted nearly six years in helping lead and build a successful environmental education nonprofit, Sprout Up, which partners university and primary school students to instill an ethic of sustainability in communities. Her interests lie in the creation and implementation of successful policy based in sound science to help promote sustainable management of coastal and marine resources.