Coastal Resilience

Coastal Resilience

Coastal Resilience

Collaborating Partners

Coastal Resilience

Coastal Resilience

Coastal Resilience

Collaborating Partners

The strength of this project comes from the unique partnerships and cross-institution collaboration that define it.


Sitka Sound Science Center

Lauren Bell

Research Biologist

Lead diver & scientist on abalone project; USCGA cadet mentor and lead scientist on kelp project

Victoria O'Connell

Research Director

Primary Investigator, Coastal Resilience project


Alaska Department of Fish and Game

Mike Donnellan

Dive Fisheries Research

Lead author for study methodology and dive support on abalone project; lead scientist on NMFS-funded ADF&G abalone surveys in southern Southeast Alaska

Kyle Herbert

Dive Fisheries Research

Scientific and dive support on abalone project


University of California Santa Cruz

Taylor White

Graduate Researcher, Past SSSC Aquarium Manager

Lead diver & scientist on abalone project; expanding from this project into her own PhD research on pinto abalone in Southeast AK

Peter Raimondi

Professor, Chair of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Dept.

Scientific support on abalone project


United States Coast Guard Academy

Lucy Vlietstra

Professor of Marine Science

Designed and implemented science internship opportunity for USCGA cadets in Sitka as partnership between SSSC & Air Station Sitka