• Professor in the Department of Biology at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California.
• Associate at the California Academy of Sciences
• Studied Marine Sciences at the University of California Santa Cruz
• TED Talk: Sustainable Ocean Management — Back to the Future in Micronesia
• ResearchGate
• Biosketch

• Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz
• Monitors fish abundance & distribution on the island of Moorea, French Polynesia for the Moorea Coral Reef Long Term Ecological Research Program (LTER)
• Applies molecular biology techniques to evaluate the levels of genetic connectivity between fish populations. Determining how populations of fish become genetically distinct has implications in the designation & management of marine protected areas
• PostDoc (Fundulus Population Genetics): with Dennis A. Powers at Stanford’s Hopkins Marine Station – Pacific Grove, California
• Ph.D.(Fish Genomics): University of Paris, France

I am a biologist and a surfer. I grew up on, in and under the water on the west coast of the United States. The ocean that I grew up with is not the ocean we have today; while change is inevitable, at the very least we have to be cognizant of why and how these changes occur. The ‘very least’ however is not enough! Humans are now an integral part of most ecological systems, and, I believe, must learn to treat our involvement as a respectful collaboration or to modulate our involvement to the point where we are only observers. 

I have studied the fishes that aggregate beneath floating objects, what fish see and why they have the colors they do, and the movements of fishes as they transition from juveniles to adults, but I am curious about most things outdoors. I am good with numbers and looking for patterns that require statistics to find them, and I especially like conducting experiments that explore interesting questions regarding behavior or physiology.

Here in California, I work with fishermen to collect the kinds of information needed to manage fisheries and protect marine ecosystems. In the U.S., managers and scientists have told fishermen where to fish, when to fish and how much to fish for decades; sometimes this has worked but often the results have been poor. We are working now to make fishermen partners in the management process. Obviously, fishermen know the sea. They know that taking too much, too fast will result in scarcity. So, clearly, fishermen can and should be stewards of the ocean. Our seafood markets and our history of fisheries management make this difficult to achieve, but I think that we are beginning to make progress. I would be honored to help to contribute some of the science that we have acquired in the United States, as well as our experience involving communities in managing their resources. I expect, however, that I will learn at least as much from the people of Ulithi.

• Kelsey Doyle is an award winning documentary filmmaker and media producer whose work focuses on supporting non-profits and giving them agency by making documentary films about their causes – a marketing strategy non-profit organizations cannot afford.
• Her work has taken her and her teams from the jungles of Sumatra, savannahs of Maasailand, to the outermost Pacific islands of Micronesia and has been published by Stanford, National Geographic, Oceanic Society, National Science Foundation, UN, Filmmaker, Independent Filmmaker Project, PBS Newshour, Stanford, UCB, NYU, Patagonia, and New York Magazine. She is a proud member of the Board of Directors of Naretoi.
• Kelsey holds an M.A. in News and Documentary Journalism from New York University and a B.A. in Film and Digital Media from the University of California. She’s lived in Buenos Aires, Brooklyn, and London. Currently, she is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and works as a Senior Digital Content Producer at Stanford University.

Being born and raised in Santa Barbara, I had always had an interest in marine life and processes due to me growing up so close to the beach. This curiosity led me to major in marine biology at Santa Barbara City College and to volunteer at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Sea Center. With these two resources I was able to have the opportunity to educate the public about the marine life found in the Santa Barbara Channel and physical processes like how beaches are made. My interest in corals came when the Sea Center got a tropical coral reef tank where I was able to see how beautiful and interesting these animals were face to face. This would ultimately lead me to intern under Dr. Michelle Paddack where we are looking into the effects that typhoon Maysak had on the distribution of corals on the reefs in Ulithi.