Presenter, “Leveraging an Integrated Fish Welfare Index to drive operational decisions,” Gill Health Initiative, Oslo, October 2023.
Scene setter, “Financing Sustainable Aquaculture,” Asian Development Bank Healthy Oceans Tech and Finance Forum 2022, January 2022.
Panelist, “Forecasting Ocean Weather | The solution to protect, insure, & invest in salmon aquaculture,” Seafood Source Webinar, January 2022.
Presenter, “Framework for Translating Ocean Risk to Investment: A Salmon Aquaculture Case Study,” Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego, California, January 2022.
Guest blog contributor to Fishful Future, a collaborative initiative funded by the NOAA Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant Program to move towards a zero waste seafood industry.
Finalized content, improved layout and organization for Offshore Mussel Farming pages, added relevant resources, and created subscriber functionality for COSAP website.
Created a CA Aquaculture Dashboard for synthesizing and visualizing existing data from a variety of sources, including US Department of Agriculture and NOAA.
Read my guest blog post, “Fellowship Feature: Expanding mariculture”, on the Ocean Health Index project page!
Presenter, “Ocean Health Index Global Fellows Program Seminar”, NCEAS Roundtable Series, Santa Barbara, September 2018.
Calculated status of fisheries, mariculture, MPAs, and social progress for the 2018 OHI Global Assessment at NCEAS. Synthesized large datasets, communicated research.
The Data Exploration Dashboard I created for the OHI Project provides a quick glance into the data behind calculating global scores. Read about it in my featured article!
Organizer, “A Conversation about Aquaculture”, student-led presentation series featuring local academic and industry experts in aquaculture, Bren School, Santa Barbara, June 2018.
Investigated the feasibility of seaweed aquaculture in southern California for Santa Barbara Mariculture and the Sustainable Aquaculture Research Center.
Streamlined marine spatial planning for the CA Groundfish Collective and TNC by implementing SeaSketch as a cloud-based, planning tool.
Invited workshop participant, “Gathering Community Input on the Location of VSE Mussel Farming Lease Sites”, Ventura Shellfish Enterprise Site Selection Workshop, Ventura Harbor, July 2017.
Invited workshop participant, LMU-UCLA Seafood Traceability Forum, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, April 2017.