Faculty

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Admissions officer handing out prospectuses at an open-day stand — Person `main_image`, staff/administration.

Aisha Tanaka runs the intertidal transect survey at Prentice and works on how coastal communities reassemble after disturbance, including the cases where they reassemble into something different.

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Geologist measuring an eroding cliff face from the clifftop — Person `main_image`, faculty/field.

James McAllister is a doctoral candidate working on shelf-break exchange events, and the person who spent eleven days waiting for a glider to come back.

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Coastal engineering staff member surveying dune restoration, beach setting — Person `main_image`, staff/field.

Nathaniel Brooks works on how ocean governance actually operates, as opposed to how the statutes say it does. He runs the policy clinic.

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Instrumentation engineer guiding a monitoring buoy off the dock — Person `main_image`, staff/technical.

Priya Iyer designs underwater vehicles and the control systems that keep them working when nobody is watching. She chairs Marine Engineering and led the case for the test basin.

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Outreach coordinator tallying finds at a volunteer beach cleanup — Person `main_image`, staff/engagement.

Elena Reyes works on shelf circulation and the exchange between coastal water and the open ocean. She has led fourteen cruises aboard R/V Cascadia Strait.

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Marine policy researcher briefing colleagues at a field station overlook — Person `main_image`, faculty/staff.

Rosa Delgado leads undergraduate and graduate admissions, and is the person most likely to answer when a prospective student calls.

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Estuarine ecologist counting a quadrat among mangrove roots — Person `main_image`, faculty/field.

Grace Adeyemi works on the economics of marine resource use, including the parts that economics handles badly.

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GIS specialist tracing a shoreline layer at a mapping workstation — Person `main_image`, staff/data.

Tobias Wren reads sediment cores for evidence of past climate, and spends a good deal of his time arguing about what a layer of mud can and cannot tell you.