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