PROJECTS
CORE PROJECTS
Policy think tank: Urban Ocean Lab, co-founder
Book: What If We Get It Right? (Penguin Random House)
Board member: Patagonia and Greenwave
The All We Can Save Project, co-founder & advisor, 2020-present
RECENT PROJECTS
Science & Society event series with Pioneer Works (curator and host), 2018-present
Climate Futurism art exhibition @ Pioneer Works (curator), 2023
Best of American Science and Nature Writing 2022 (editor), 2022
How to Save a Planet, Gimlet/Spotify podcast (co-creator and co-host), 2020-2021
Nike – Talking Trash (advisor, speaker, writer), 2021
Blue New Deal plan (policy advisor, Warren campaign), 2019
PAST PROJECTS
NYU seminar course on Urban Ocean Conservation (adjunct professor), 2016-2019
Community building for #WomenLeadClimate (convener and facilitator), 2019
Global strategy for TBA21-Academy on ocean art and policy (project lead), 2018-2019
Grants program for Bezos Family Foundation’s Ocean Challenge (project lead), 2018-2019
World Ocean Week at The Explorer's Club (curator, moderator), 2018 & 2019
Lonely Whale's Tick Tock campaign (researcher, writer, advisor), 2018
TED Ed animated explainers on overfishing and aquaculture (writer, producer), 2017 & 2019
Analysis of waste in the seafood supply chain for WWF (project lead), 2018
March for Science (leadership team, co-director of partnerships), 2017
XPRIZE Big Ocean Button Challenge (competition designer), 2017
Waitt Institute’s Blue Halo Initiative (executive director, initiative co-founder), 2013-2016
U.S. National Ocean Policy Implementation Plan (NOAA executive secretary, drafter), 2011
Fish traps with escape gaps to reduce fishing bycatch (inventor, researcher), 2008
Fish, Fishing, Diving, and the Management of Coral Reefs (Ph.D. dissertation), 2005-2011