Board of Directors

Denise's Masters and PhD work focused on harbor seal reproduction, health, and survival, and she has worked with live and dead stranded marine mammals in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1994. During her career, she has enjoyed countless hours conducting health assessments on seals, sea lions, and dolphins, tracking harbor seals movements, counting and observing pinnipeds, conducting marine mammal necropsies, and collecting and analyzing marine mammal samples. She is currently a part-time research scientist at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. 

For over 30 years, Mike has been an Environmental Scientist specializing as a sea otter biologist for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. In this role, he has led sea otter stranding responses efforts along the central California coast and conducted field operations monitoring sea otter population dynamics, health, and causes of mortality. Mike has also been very active with the UC Davis Oiled Wildlife Care Network and has served in supervisor and field lead roles for oiled marine wildlife responses. 

For the past 10+ years, Katrina co-owned and operated Wildlands Conservation Science, a small company dedicated to caring for wild places through wildlife surveys, threatened and endangered species work, and landscape-level habitat restoration across coastal California and the Channel Islands. Today, Katrina leads a team of conservation biologists, ecologists, restoration specialists, and GIS analysts on California’s central coast in support of the Department of Defense. Katrina is especially passionate about sharing the importance of wildlife conservation with the public and inspiring future scientists.