Nicole Crane MSc, MAR
Nicole Crane is a Professor in the Department of Biology at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California; she is also a Senior Conservation Scientist at the Oceanic Society and Associate at the California Academy of Sciences.
Biosketch
ResearchGate
John Rulmal Jr.
John Rulmal Jr. lives on Falalop, Ulithi. He is the local project manager, as well as for other projects related to conservation and education for the people of Ulithi.
Science Team
Dr. Giacomo Bernardi
Giacomo Bernardi is a professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Dr. Michelle Paddack
Michelle Paddack is an Assistant Professor of Marine Sciences at Santa Barbara City College in Santa Barbara, CA; she is also a Senior Conservation Scientist at the Oceanic Society.
Dr. Peter Nelson
Peter Nelson is a fisheries biologist.
Local Team
Mario Dohmai
Justina Paiy
Alex Sau
Basco Marle
Albert "Data King"
Mylow Tasopolu
Rancy Taigumal
Affiliated Scientists
Dr. Supin Wongbusarakum
Supin is an applied social scientist and program lead focusing on the human dimensions of nature conservation and social resilience. Over the last twenty years, she has been managing and directing projects; providing technical assistance; developing capacity; and conducting monitoring, evaluation and social scientific research. She is committed to improving human well-being while achieving environmental objectives, and ensuring that social safeguards are integrated into resource management and sustainable development, and into fostering climate adaptation and resilience. Using an ecosystem approach and bio-cultural disciplines, she work with communities, resource stewards, and multi-disciplinary partners to balance ecological health with sustainable livelihoods and cultural integrity. Her work has been in multiple cultures and biomes with primary geographical areas in Asia-Pacific and the Americas.
John Haskins
My work mainly focuses around water quality and reducing negative effects of eutrophication in estuaries, specifically Elkhorn Slough on the central coast of California. Since graduating from Moss Landing Marine Labs in 2002 I have been working on various water quality and marsh restoration
projects at Elkhorn Slough Reserve. I manage two water quality monitoring programs one of which has been monitoring water quality and nutrients on a monthly basis in the Elkhorn Slough Watershed since 1989. Next year we will celebrate 30 years and one of the longest running water quality monitoring programs in the state. I also manage the National Estuarine Research Reserve water quality program at Elkhorn Slough which has four permanent stations that measure water quality every 15 minutes, two of which have been running since 1995. Lately we have been incorporating UAS (drone) surveys along with the monitoring and restoration of wetland habitats. This has greatly enhanced the quality of our research with Normalized Data Vegetation Index (NDVI), Digital Elevation Models (DEM) that more quickly and accurately create overall percent cover of vegetation. Outside of work you will mostly find me surfing or working on the “farm” with my wife Gala and our two girls Jade and Ananda and our many animals; chickens, goats, and dogs.
Dr. Steve Moore
Steve Moore is a Professor in the Division of Science & Environmental Policy (SEP) at California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB). He combines electronics and biology to probe the depths of coral reefs using ROVs.
Steve Moore directs the Ecosystem Electronics Lab (EEL), which, among others, features the Ulithi ROV Project.
Kristin Precoda
Kristin is the director of the Star Laboratory (Speech Technology & Research Laboratory).
Sara Cannon
Sara Cannon is a graduate student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
Donna Miller
Donna designs algorithms and discovers patterns in Big Data. She is an avid scuba diver and photographer. She has been working with One People One Reef since September 2016 helping analyze our growing fisheries database from the outer islands
Dr. Avigdor Abelson
Avigdor Abelson is a Professor of Marine Biology in the Department of Zoology at Tel-Aviv University in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Dr. Eva Salas
Eva is a coral reef ecologist. She led the 2017 Youth Project, and was part of the 2017 Outer Islands Expedition science team. She also teaches the Genetics of Micronesian Marine Organisms Research Class at Cabrillo, where students contribute to One People One Reef research projects. She completed her PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCSC and is currently working as an adjunct instructor at Cabrillo College.
May Roberts
May is a PhD student at UC Santa Cruz researching the ability of coral reef fishes to adapt to climate change. She first joined One People One Reef in 2017 for the Outer Islands Expedition as a part of the science team. She quickly fell in love with the people, traditions, and culture of the Outer Islands as well as the important and meaningful work that OPOR does. She is now the acting instructor for the summer 2018 Ulithi Youth Program in which students from the Ulithi Atoll and from California work together to conduct scientific marine research, learn about each others cultures, and foster the link between science and tradition.
Gwen Barry
I am finishing my bachelor’s degree at San Jose State University in environmental science with a concentration in biology. In Fall 2019, I will be starting the environmental science M.S. program at SJSU, where I will be focusing on marine ecology. I first started doing some behind the scenes work for One People One Reef in 2015. I worked with coral reef ecologist, Eva Salas, doing DNA analyses of fish and coral species collected from the outer islands. I am currently working on analyzing outer island community interview data using a grounded theory approach. I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to go to the outer islands with the One People One Reef science team over the summer of 2016. I presented some of the amazing work being done by OPOR at the International Coral Reef Symposium in Hawaii after the 2016 trip to the outer islands, highlighting the importance of bridging the gap between traditional knowledge and science. I feel extremely honored to be a part of this project.
Support Team & Affiliates
Birgit Winning
Birgit Winning is president and executive director of Bluecology. Bluecology works closely with One People One Reef to run the Youth Project.
Previously, she served as President of The Oceanic Society for 24 years, and she also has worked in management at Steinhart Aquarium, California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.
During her tenure at the Society, she established and mobilized several international research stations and base camps at the invitation of local communities. She has served on several national and international committees and councils working to protect marine areas, and she has produced best practices guidelines on behalf of governmental agencies. She also has authored and co-authored popular and technical articles on marine life and threatened habitats.
Kelsey Doyle
Kelsey Doyle is a documentary filmmaker from the stunning redwood mountains of Santa Cruz, California. Her work focuses on pertinent environmental and social issues around the world. Though her passion takes her abroad, she is deeply rooted in her community and honored to be on the board of the Santa Cruz Film Festival where she oversees filmmaking relations, production, programming, and content development. She has produced pieces for platforms such as PBS Newshour, NYC Life, NYMagazine, and is currently working on documentary projects in Morocco, Sumatra, and Micronesia. She holds a B.A. in Film and Digital Media from UCSC and is completing her Master’s in Documentary Journalism from NYU. and in her spare time she is an adjunct faculty for Law & Media Ethics.
Emma Lassiter
Emma was a participant in the 2017 Youth Project. She has since been assisting One People One Reef with fundraising and writing, and is the TA for the Genetics of Micronesian Marine Organisms class at Cabrillo.
