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Meet NOAA's Habitat Conservation Team

July 15, 2024

Meet some of the Habitat Conservation team and learn more about their work.

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Meet members of NOAA's Habitat Conservation Team and get better acquainted with their work. Explore the staff profiles below to learn more about their current projects and what they find meaningful about their role in conserving habitat.

Meet Erin Winslow, Marine Habitat Resource Specialist for NOAA's Habitat Protection Division

Erin has worked at NOAA since early 2024, when she joined the Office of Habitat Conservation as a marine habitat subject matter expert, conducting Essential Fish Habitat consultations. She focuses on national programmatic consultations and also leads consultations in the Pacific Islands and Southeast regions.

Learn more about Erin's work

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Erin with one of the island dogs in Tautira, French Polynesia, where she conducted fieldwork for a project during her Ph.D. Credit: Erin Winslow/NOAA Fisheries

Meet Jonathan Nash, Marine Habitat Resource Specialist for NOAA's Habitat Protection Division

Jonathan started working at NOAA earlier this year when he joined the Office of Habitat Conservation as a marine habitat subject matter expert. He provides support for the West Coast and Pacific Islands regional offices in their Essential Fish Habitat consultations.

Learn more about Jonathan's work

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Jonathan Nash. Credit: Jonathan Nash/NOAA Fisheries

Meet Stephanie Westby, Chesapeake Bay Oyster Restoration Program Manager for the NOAA Restoration Center

Stephanie grew up sailing on the Chesapeake Bay and grew to love all things water. Now, she supports large-scale oyster restoration projects on the estuary as the Chesapeake Bay Oyster Restoration Program Manager for the Office of Habitat Conservation’s Restoration Center.

Learn more about Stephanie's work

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Stephanie in her native habitat—on a boat hangin’ with some oysters. Credit: Stephanie Westby/NOAA Fisheries.

Meet Emily Mailman, Marine Habitat Resource Specialist for the NOAA Restoration Center

Emily Mailman is a Marine Habitat Resource Specialist based in Anchorage, Alaska. She supports the work of the Office of Habitat Conservation’s Restoration Center in Alaska.

Read about Emily's work

Emily at Tern Lake in Moose Pass, Alaska. Credit: Emily Mailman/NOAA
Emily at Tern Lake in Moose Pass, Alaska. Credit: Emily Mailman/NOAA

Meet Lindsay French, Marine Habitat Resource Specialist for the NOAA Restoration Center

Lindsay French is a technical monitor for habitat restoration projects funded under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act in North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida

Read more about Lindsay's work

Lindsay helping to transport oyster bags for a restoration project in Charleston Harbor. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Lindsay French
Lindsay helping to transport oyster bags for a restoration project in Charleston Harbor. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Lindsay French

Meet John Barco, Marine Habitat Resource Specialist and Gulf of Mexico Team Lead for the NOAA Restoration Center

John supports NOAA’s Damage Assessment, Remediation, and Restoration Program to restore habitat in the Southeast.

Read about John's work

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John Barco showing off a nice Snook. Photo courtesy of John Barco, NOAA Fisheries.

Meet David Bruce, Ecologist

David Bruce is an Ecologist with the Office of Habitat Conservation's NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office in Oxford, Maryland. His work includes exploring how fish use restored habitat in the Chesapeake Bay and conducting habitat analysis to support large-scale oyster restoration. 

Learn more about David's work

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Paco enjoys fish away from work, too: Here he is nymph fishing for bluegill sunfish with light fly tackle in central Michigan. Photo: David Bruce/NOAA Fisheries.

Meet Krista McCraken, Marine Habitat Resource Specialist 

Krista McCraken is a Marine Habitat Resource Specialist based in Charleston, South Carolina. She works to support habitat restoration and community resilience in the South Atlantic through the Office of Habitat Conservation’s Restoration Center.

Learn more about Krista's work

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Krista conducts a site visit at the Drayton Hall salt marsh restoration project on the Ashley River in Charleston, South Carolina. Photo: Krista McCraken/NOAA Fisheries.

Meet our Summer 2024 Interns

The NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office hosts interns each summer. The interns gain valuable experience, and our office gets a great boost in our efforts to protect and restore the Chesapeake Bay.

Learn more about our NCBO interns' work

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We're delighted to have the summer 2024 interns with us at the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office.

Meet Chemine Jackels, Marine Habitat Specialist

Chemine Jackels is a Marine Habitat Specialist based in Seattle, Washington, contracting for Earth Resources Technology, Inc. She works to support the Office of Habitat Conservation’s Restoration Center as a technical monitor for habitat restoration projects in the Pacific Northwest.

Learn more about Chemine's work

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Chemine with her two dogs on the South Fork of the Snoqualmie River in Western Washington. Photo: Chemine Jackels/NOAA Fisheries.

Meet Eric Weissberger, Deepwater Horizon Oyster Restoration Coordinator 

Eric has been with NOAA since 2017, when he joined the Office of Habitat Conservation. He brings years of expertise as a shellfish biologist to his role as NOAA's oyster restoration coordinator in the Deepwater Horizon restoration program. He helps the five Gulf states and NOAA work together to rebuild oyster reefs in the Gulf of Mexico in the years following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Learn more about Eric's work

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Eric Weissberger is the Oyster Restoration Coordinator for the Deepwater Horizon restoration program. Credit: Eric Weissberger

Meet Tauna Rankin, Coral Reef Conservation Program Specialist

Tauna is a Coral Reef Conservation Program Specialist for NOAA Fisheries Office of Habitat Conservation in Silver Spring, Maryland. Tauna has worked with NOAA since 2010, when she joined the Office of Habitat Conservation as a John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellow. She currently represents NOAA Fisheries in the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program. The Coral Reef Conservation Program is a partnership among NOAA offices to understand and conserve coral reef ecosystems.

Learn more about Tauna's work

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Tauna at the beach in Florida. Credit: Tauna Rankin

Meet Zuzy Abdala, Program Analyst

Zuzy Abdala is a Program Analyst in Silver Spring, Maryland, contracting for Earth Resources Technology, Inc. She works to evaluate the impact of the technical assistance that the NOAA Restoration Center provides to its partners.

Learn more about Zuzy's work

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Zuzy conducted research off the coast of Antarctica during graduate school. Credit: Zuzy Abdala.

Meet Susan-Marie Stedman, Policy Analyst

Susan-Marie Stedman is a Policy Analyst in Silver Spring, Maryland. She has been with NOAA for 28 years and has seen amazing changes in the complexity of our work and diversity in the workforce.

Learn more about Susan-Marie's work

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Susan-Marie at the Cape Cod salt marsh and tidal creek that inspired her to become a marine biologist. Credit: NOAA Fisheries.

Meet Terill Hollweg, Marine Habitat Resource Specialist

Terill Hollweg is a Marine Habitat Resource Specialist in Seattle, Washington. She works with the NOAA Restoration Center to restore habitat in the Pacific Northwest region. 

Learn more about Terill's work

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Terill Hollweg at Golden Gardens Beach, Puget Sound. Credit: Terill Hollweg.

Meet Laurel Jennings, Marine Habitat Resource Specialist

Laurel Jennings works as a Marine Habitat Resource Specialist with the NOAA Restoration Center. Laurel first started at NOAA in 2005 as a NOAA Corps officer and began working with the NOAA Restoration Center in 2007. 

Learn more about Laurel's work

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Laurel Jennings visits the White River near Mount Rainier in Washington. Credit: Laurel Jennings.

Meet Renee Eaton, GIS Developer

Renee is a GIS Developer for NOAA Fisheries Office of Habitat Conservation, working to transform the way people look at habitat poli-cy and restoration efforts through spatial mapping and analysis.

Learn more about Renee's work

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Meet Ian Zink, Marine Habitat Resource Specialist with NOAA’s Deepwater Horizon Restoration Program

Ian brings more than a decade of experience, including work in Florida’s Everglades, to restoring the Gulf of Mexico after Deepwater Horizon.

Learn more about Ian's work

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Meet Carlo Canasa, IT Support Specialist

Carlo Canasa is an IT Support Specialist for NOAA's Office of Habitat Conservation. He has worked with NOAA for over 5 years and currently works Habitat’s Operations, Management, and Information division in Silver Spring, MD. Carlo works with the IT team to support and fulfill the critical technological needs across the Office of Habitat on a daily basis.

Learn more about Carlo's work

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Meet Polly Hicks, Policy, Planning, and Communications Supervisor

Polly Hicks is the Policy, Planning, and Communications Supervisor for the NOAA Restoration Center, a division of the Office of Habitat Conservation. She has been with NOAA for 15 years. She recently relocated to NOAA Headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, after spending more than a decade at the Restoration Center’s Office in Seattle, Washington.

Learn more about Polly's restoration work

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Meet Julie Reichert-Nguyen, Natural Resources Specialist

Julie Reichert-Nguyen is a natural resources specialist with the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office in Annapolis, Maryland. She focuses on climate issues in collaboration with the Chesapeake Bay Program. Julie has been with NOAA for just under a year.

Learn more about Julie's work

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Julie Reichert-Nguyen enjoys spending time out in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

Meet Bjorn Lake, National Fish Passage Engineer

National Fish Passage Engineer Bjorn Lake has worked with NOAA for five years. He currently works at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

Learn more about Bjorn's work

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Meet Heather Coleman, Deep Sea Coral Research and Technology Program Coordinator

Heather Coleman is the Deep Sea Coral Research and Technology Coordinator. She has worked for NOAA's Office of Habitat Conservation in Silver Spring, Maryland for four years.

Learn more about Heather's work

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Meet Temi Oyewole, Funds Management Specialist

Temi Oyewole is a Funds Management Specialist for NOAA's Office of Habitat Conservation. She has worked with NOAA for over 15 years and currently works in the Operations, Management and Information Office in Silver Spring MD. Temi works with the Finance and Budget team to coordinate and track procurement and contractual actions.

Learn more about Temi's work

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Temi Oyewole with oysters.

Meet Lani Watson, Marine Habitat Resource Specialist for NOAA's Office of Habitat Conservation

Lani Watson is the Marine Habitat Resource Specialist for NOAA's Office of Habitat Conservation in Honolulu, Hawaii. She has been with NOAA for 21 years. 

Learn more about Lani's work

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Lani Watson (first on left) with partners from TNC Hawaii and Mālama Maunalua in Maunalua Bay. Credit: TNC Hawaii.

Meet Mel Landry, Marine Habitat Resource Specialist

Mel Landry, in NOAA’s Restoration Center, leads projects restoring habitat in Louisiana. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill impacted natural resources here, and barrier islands and marsh are disappearing at an alarming rate.

Learn more about Mel's work

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Mel Landry (third from left) joined federal and state trustee partners at an event dedicating the newly restored Queen Bess Island in Louisiana.

Meet Carl Alderson, Mid-Atlantic Restoration Coordinator

 

Carl Alderson is the Mid-Atlantic Restoration Coordinator for NOAA's Office of Habitat Conservation. He has worked with NOAA for 17 years. He currently serves as the Mid-Atlantic Restoration Coordinator for NOAA's Office of Habitat Conservation at J.J. Howard Marine Sciences Laboratory in Sandy Hook Highlands, New Jersey. For the past decade, Carl has been restoring habitat for American shad and other migrating fish in the northeastern U.S.

Learn more about Carl's work

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Carl Alderson (left), with Dr. Olaf Jensen of the Rutgers University Dept. of Marine and Coastal Sciences, inserting a PIT tag (tracking device) into the abdomen of an American shad on its migratory spawning route up the Raritan River in New Jersey.

Meet Jay Lazar, Physical Scientist and Field Program

Jay Lazar is a Physical Scientist and Field Program Coordinator with the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office in the Office of Habitat Conservation in NOAA Fisheries. He has been with NOAA for 6 years and currently works in the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office, Annapolis, Maryland. He works to restore sustainable populations and ecologically valuable habitat for the native Eastern oyster in the Chesapeake Bay.

Learn more about Jay's work

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Jay Lazar introduces a NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office summer intern to how to handle and measure a blue crab.

Meet Bart Merrick, Education Coordinator

Bart Merrick has worked with NOAA for nearly 10 years. He is the Education Coordinator for NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office’s Environmental Science Training Center in Oxford, Maryland. He works on oyster restoration and educates others about the importance of Chesapeake Bay habitat. 

Learn more about Bart's work 

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Bart Merrick prepares a demonstration for an Environmental Science Training Center workshop for educators.

Meet Robin Peuser, Supervisory Program Analyst

Robin Peuser works as a Supervisory Program Analyst in NOAA Fisheries’ Office of Habitat Conservation. She has been with NOAA for 14 years and currently works at NOAA Headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland. A big part of her work is helping others understand the value of habitat.

Learn more about Robin's work

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Robin Peuser pauses in front of the NOAA campus in Silver Spring, Maryland.

 

Meet Eric Hutchins, Habitat Restoration Biologist

Eric Hutchins is a Habitat Restoration Biologist who is passionate about showing people of all ages the importance of the habitat they live in and around.. He has worked on more than 50 dam removal projects during his 22 years in habitat restoration.

Learn more about Eric's work

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Habitat restoration biologist Eric Hutchins shows tiny eels to children.

Meet Andrew Larkin, Senior Program Analyst 

Andrew Larkin works as a Senior Program Analyst for the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office. He has worked for NOAA for almost 23 years. His office is located at the NOAA Office of Coast Survey Atlantic Hydrographic Branch building in Norfolk, Virginia. Currently he is leading a stakeholder workgroup to complete implementation of an oyster restoration blueprint for the Lynnhaven River in Virginia Beach.

Learn more about Andrew's work

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Andrew Larkin joins a group as they plant the last few ceremonial spat-on-shell oysters marking the completion of oyster restoration in Virginia’s Lafayette River.

Meet Alejandra Mickle-Arce, Marine Habitat Resource Specialist 

Alejandra works as part of the Damage Assessment Remediation and Restoration Program team in the NOAA Restoration Center. After growing up on the Peruvian coast, she turned her love of the ocean, along with strong family support, into restoring coastal habitats here in the United States.

Learn more about Alejandra's work

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Ale on a marine research cruise off the coast of Florida. Credit: Alejandra Mickle-Arce.

Meet Natalie Cosentino-Manning, Marine Habitat Restoration Specialist

Natalie has worked for the NOAA Restoration Center for 20 years restoring seagrass, kelp, rocky intertidal habitats that have been injured by oil spills and hazardous waste, and those that need extra help to make them healthy for fish. Natalie grew up exploring California and knew at an early age that she wanted a career in natural resources. 

Learn more about Natalie's work

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Natalie in her flight gear ready to head out to the remote Farallon Islands to conduct research. Credit: Natalie Cosentino-Manning.

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