Staff

Meg Caldwell

Meg Caldwell serves as the Executive Director for the Center for Ocean Solutions. She also directs the Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Program at Stanford Law School, where her research and teaching focuses on the use of science in environmental and marine resource policy development and implementation as well as private and public incentives for natural resource conservation.

Larry Crowder

Larry Crowder is the Science Director at the Center for Ocean Solutions (COS). He is also a Professor of Biology at Hopkins Marine Station and a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, both part of Stanford University. Previously, he was the Stephen Toth Professor of Marine Biology at Duke University.

Adina Abeles

As the Director of Education and Training for the Center for Ocean Solutions, Adina works to provide decision-maker education, workshop and training opportunities, and to enhance graduate marine programs in the Monterey Bay region.

Kimberly Gordon

In her role as Program Manager of the Fisheries Leadership & Sustainability Forum, Kimberly strives to promote healthy oceans and fisheries through supporting the US fishery management process and building capacity among decision makers.

John Henderschedt

John Henderschedt is the Executive Director of the Fisheries Leadership and Sustainability Forum.

Margaret Krebs

Margaret has dedicated her career to designing educational programs that draw on real-world scenarios to promote change. Based at Stanford University’s Woods Institute for the Environment, Margaret coordinates MARINE, the Center for Ocean Solution’s graduate marine education initiative.

Karen Marvin

Karen is responsible for communications at the Center for Ocean Solutions. She helps this young organization build its communications programs and brand as a nonpartisan organization that crafts interdisciplinary programs and tools to solve the major challenges facing the oceans.

Ashley Erickson

Ashley Erickson joined the Center for Ocean Solutions as an Early Career Law and Policy Fellow in September 2011. At COS, she combines her national policy experience with her legal background in her work on COS’s coastal and marine spatial planning and climate change adaptation initiatives.

Melissa Foley

Melissa is a science early career fellow working with the Center for Ocean Solutions’ Marine Spatial Planning Initiative. She recently finished her PhD in marine ecology at UC Santa Cruz where her research focused on how the movement of subsidies across the land-sea interface influences ecosystem structure and functioning in nearshore marine habitats.

Rod Fujita

Rod Fujita is a Visiting Fellow with the Center for Ocean Solutions, working on Marine Spatial Planning, managing for ecosystem resilience, characterization and control of cumulative impacts, and the development of markets for unpriced ecosystem services.

Eric Hartge

Eric is a research analyst with the Center for Ocean Solutions (COS) focusing on coastal climate change adaptation planning in the Monterey Bay region. He joined COS as a research and curriculum development intern in November 2010.

Lucie Hazen

Lucie Hazen joined COS in February 2011 as a Research Analyst where she works with Science Director Larry Crowder to build COS’s science vision. To date, she has focused on coordinating COS interdisciplinary working groups and co-organized the COS Ocean Policy course in summer 2011.

Ryan Kelly

Ryan Kelly is an Analyst for Science, Law, and Policy with Stanford University's Center for Ocean Solutions. Ryan's role is to bridge the divide between hard scientific data and policymakers' use of those data, bringing both technical and legal analysis to bear on issues affecting the coastal ocean.

John N. ("Jack") Kittinger

Dr. John ("Jack") Kittinger is a human geographer and coastal ecologist whose expertise is principally in the human dimensions of marine ecosystems and applying social science research to contemporary challenges in marine resource management, planning and conservation.

Erin Prahler

Erin Prahler is an Early Career Policy Fellow with the Center for Ocean Solutions (COS), where she focuses on marine spatial planning and the regulation of coastal and marine resources.

C. Brock Woodson

C. Brock Woodson is an Early Career Science Fellow at the Center for Ocean Solutions (COS). He is working with COS on the development of a Kelp Forest Observatory, and on techniques for model-data comparisons for marine larval dispersal.

Kevan Yamahara

Kevan is a science early career fellow working with the Center for Ocean Solutions’ (COS) Land-Sea Initiative. He is currently finishing his PhD in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Stanford University on coastal water quality research with Professor Alexandria Boehm. In partnership with MBARI, this research is the focus of his fellowship with COS.

Masako Esparragoza

Masako Esparragoza is the office manager at the Center for Ocean Solutions. Masako has worked at Stanford University for over nine years in the capacities of office manager, project coordinator and executive assistant.

Michael Fox

Mike joined the Center for Ocean Solutions as a research intern in November 2009. He works primarily on the COS Climate Change Initiative, helping to synthesize climate science for local decision-makers around the Monterey Bay area.

Brynn Hooton-Kaufman

Brynn joined Center for Ocean Solutions as a science communication intern in May 2011. She writes content for the website, newsletter and press releases, and assists with photo and video media.

David Weiskopf

David joined the Center for Ocean Solutions as a legal research assistant in the spring of 2011. He is a J.D. student at Stanford Law School ('13) and an M.S. student in Stanford University's Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources ('13).

Sara Worden

Sara joined Center for Ocean Solutions as the science communications intern in May of 2012. She writes content for the COS website, newsletter and press releases and assists with visual media.