All People

Principal Investigators

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Anastasia Quintana

Lead Principal Investigator, Assistant Research Faculty, Marine Science Institute

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Eréndira Aceves Bueno

Assistant Professor at the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, University of Washington

Hunter stands in front of a lagoon in French Polynesia

Hunter Lenihan

Professor, Applied Marine and Fisheries Biology

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Matt Lauer

Lead Anthropologist, Professor & Interim Department Chair at San Diego State University

Steve smiling on Decker's Deck. Yellow shirt with a view of the Pacific Ocean behind him

Steve Gaines

Dean, Bren School Environmental Science & Management

Project Team

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Amy Hudson Weaver

Mexico-focused consultant

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Dylan Glave

Previously, Project Manager

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Emilie Lindkvist

Modeling Lead, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden

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Jean Wencélius

Environmental Anthropologist, Junior Professor - CRIOBE-CNRS, UAR 3278, Moorea-French Polynesia

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Magda Précoma

COBI’s Curator of Innovation

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Stuart Fulton

Director of Change at COBI

Current Students

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Bonnie Basnett

PhD Student

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Jake W. Dean

PhD Student

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Leonardo Feitosa

PhD Student

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Liliana (Lili) Sierra

PhD Candidate, WWF Food System Transformation Fellow

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Olivia Isbell

PhD Student, TEMPO Ecology Lead

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Paige Sliney

Master’s Student, Environmental Anthropology

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Tamhida Ahmed

Master's student at Stockholm Resilience Center, Stockholm University

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Yutian Fang

PhD Student at The Bren School of Environmental Science and Management