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	Chemistry Joel Baker University of Washington Tacoma, Puget Sound Institute	Professor Joel Baker holds the Port of Tacoma Chair in Environmental Science at the University of Washington Tacoma and is the Science Director of the Center for Urban Waters in Tacoma. He earned a B.S. degree in Environmental Chemistry from Syracuse University (1982) and M.S. (1985) and Ph.D. (1988) degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Baker's research interests center around the transport of organic contaminants in the environment, specifically atmospheric transport and deposition, aerosol chemistry, the dynamics of contaminant transport in estuaries, and modeling the exposure and transfer of bioaccumulative chemicals in aquatic food webs. He teaches courses in water quality modeling, environmental chemistry, and quantitative methods. Baker is a member of the Puget Sound Partnership Science Panel, which he chaired from 2007-2009.
	Social Science Patrick Christie University of Washington School of Marine and Environmental Affairs	Patrick has led various comparative, socio-ecological research projects in the US, Philippines, Indonesia and Latin America to inform the practice of marine resource management. He is particularly interested in the human dimensions of marine conservation employing marine protected areas, ecosystem-based management, and conservation fishing technologies—research which resulted in a Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation. He recently taught a joint course and research seminar with the University of Washington and the Northwest Indian College on tribal fishing rights in Puget Sound. He regularly provides technical advice on the human dimensions of marine conservation to the UN Food and Agricultural Organization, World Bank, USAID, and various governmental and non-governmental environmental organizations. In addition to his scholarship, he is actively engaged in marine protected area design and implementation in various locations. He draws from his three years of experience living in a Philippine fishing community implementing a community-based marine protected area as a Peace Corps Volunteer. He is an Editor-In-Chief for the journal Coastal Management , board member for the Coastal Conservation and Education Foundation in the Philippines, and former national board member for The Coastal Society. He has a Bachelors degree in zoology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Masters degree in conservation biology and Doctorate in environmental sociology and policy from the University of Michigan.
	Biology - Birds and Mammals Joe Gaydos University of California; SeaDoc Society	Joe Gaydos is the Chief Scientist for the SeaDoc society, a marine ecosystem health program of the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center. Over the past eight years, he has actively participated in the collection and dissemination of scientific data on marine wildlife ecosystems focusing on the Puget Sound/Georgia Basin. He is a trained biologist and veterinarian with an advanced degree specializing in the health and diseases of wildlife populations.
	Physical Environment Alexander Horner-Devine University of Washington Civil and Environmental Engineering Department	Alex Horner-Devine grew up canoeing on the rivers and lakes of Ontario, Canada before starting his career in fluid mechanics as a whitewater kayaking instructor on the Ottawa River. He then studied fluid mechanics in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. Seeking to return closer to his roots, he entered graduate studies in Environmental Fluid Mechanics at Stanford University, where he completed his MS and PhD degrees. Alex joined the Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty at the University of Washington in Fall 2004. He was a visiting scholar at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands from 2012 to 2013. Horner-Devine's research group studies fluid mechanics at and near the river-ocean interface. They use field observations, laboratory experiments and numerical models to better understand the mixing and transport processes that determine the fate of sediment, nutrients and contaminants in rivers, estuaries and the coastal ocean.
	Nearshore Ecology Terrie Klinger University of Washington School of Marine and Environmental Affairs	Terri Klinger is the founding co-director of the Washington Ocean Acidification Center. Retired from her faculty position at the UW School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, her research has focused on applying ecological theory to practical management solutions, including ecosystem-based approaches to managing natural resources in the ocean, the ecological effects of environmental stressors, such as ocean acidification and habitat loss, and how rocky intertidal communities respond to and recover from disturbance. She has been recognized for her combination of marine science and public engagement with the UW’s Outstanding Service Award, received the Naturalist of the Year Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Western Society of Naturalists, and was honored with the Seattle Aquarium’s Conservation Research Award.
	Physical Oceanography Parker MacCready University of Washington School of Oceanography	Parker MacCready is a physical oceanographer, working in coastal and estuarine regions. His research group uses numerical modeling and observations in projects exploring the linkages of global climate with coastal processes, harmful algal blooms, estuarine mechanical energy, and flow over rough topography. In 1986, he received an M.S. in Engineering Science from the California Institute of Technology. He earned a Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography from the University of Washington in 1991.

	Biology - Fishes Charles "Si" Simenstad University of Washington School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences	Charles (“Si”) Simenstad, Research Professor at the University of Washington’s School of Aquatic and Fishery Science (SAFS), is an estuarine and coastal marine ecologist and coordinator of the Wetland Ecosystem Team (WET). Si has studied the organization and function of estuarine and coastal marine ecosystems throughout Puget Sound, Washington, Oregon and California, and Alaska for over forty years. Much of this research has focused on the functional role of estuarine and coastal habitats to support juvenile Pacific salmon and other biotic communities, and the associated ecological processes and community dynamics that are responsible for enhancing their production and life history diversity. His research interests focus on: ecosystem-, community- and habitat-level interactions, with emphasis on predator-prey relationships; sources, organization and flow of organic matter through food webs; estuarine ecology of juvenile Pacific salmon; and, landscape-scale interaction between estuarine structure and ecological processes. Recent research has integrated such ecosystem interactions with applied issues such as restoration and rehabilitation of estuarine and coastal wetland ecosystems, and ecological approaches to evaluating the success of coastal wetland restoration at ecosystem and landscape scales, including assessing how coastal restoration can benefit ecosystem functions, good and services. Si holds a B.S. (1969) and M.S. (1971) from the School of Fisheries at the University of Washington.
	Shorelines and Estuaries Carter Smith University of Washington School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences	I am an interdisciplinary coastal ecologist, and my interests lie at the intersection of multiple disciplines including community ecology, conservation and restoration science, and coupled human natural systems research. While not system specific, my research has previously focused on salt marshes, oyster reefs, seagrass beds, and urban shorelines using a combination of field experiments, observational studies, social science methodologies, and synthesis techniques. My research focuses on the following themes: I) employing socio-ecological methods to unravel mechanisms of climate resilience; II) evaluating shoreline development as a global driver of marine ecosystem structure and function; III) testing how species interactions mediate the effects of global stressors; and, IV) applying multidisciplinary theory to advance restoration practice. I strive to conduct research that pushes theory forward while also pursuing sustainable and adaptive conservation and restoration solutions that benefit people and the environment under global change.
	Climate Change Noelani Villa University of Washington College of the Environment	Noelani E. Villa is a Tribal Climate Adaptation Specialist at the University of Washington Climate Impacts Group, where she supports Washington coastal Tribes in responding to climate impacts and advancing community-defined adaptation and resilience priorities. Her work includes technical assistance on climate adaptation planning, synthesis of coastal hazard and sea-level-rise information for decision-makers, and management of a $1.6 million grant program supporting Tribal-led coastal resilience projects. She also leads development of the Oceans chapter for an updated State of Knowledge report, with sections addressing coastal flooding and sea-level rise. Previously, Villa served as an ORISE Fellow at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Region 10 office, where she supported the Puget Sound National Estuary Program, Tribal capacity development, and Treaty-Rights-at-Risk initiatives. Her experience spans climate adaptation, estuarine restoration, environmental policy, and collaborative research with Tribal governments. Villa holds a B.S. in Native Environmental Science from Northwest Indian College and a master’s degree in Water Resources from the University of New Mexico, where she is a doctoral candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Her research examines salt-marsh restoration in Skagit Bay, Washington, with an emphasis on how restoration design can support resilient coastal systems under changing environmental conditions. Her interests include climate adaptation, nature-based solutions, sea-level rise, flood hazards, Tribal data sovereignty, and the use of geospatial analysis, data analysis, and machine learning to inform climate-resilience decisions.

	Ecosystem-based Management Position vacant Uplands Position vacant

Previous board members

Climate Change (2012 - 22): Amy Snover, University of Washington Climate Impacts Group
Climate change (2012-13): Nate Mantua, University of Washington Climate Impacts Group
Ecosystem-based Management (2012-13): Mary Ruckelshaus, Stanford University, Natural Capital Project
Ecosystem-based Management (2014-25): Tessa Francis, University of Washington, Puget Sound Institute
Uplands (2012-25): Timothy Quinn, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife