I am a biologist working at Olofson Environmental, Inc., an environmental resource consulting firm based out of Oakland, California. OEI specializes in habitat restoration, permit acquisition and compliance, and biological resource monitoring.
Our main project is the San Francisco Estuary Invasive Spartina Project (ISP), an ongoing effort to remove invasive Spartina alterniflora from the marshes of San Francisco Bay. The elimination of this invasive cordgrass, alongside revegetation efforts and active monitoring of the endangered California Ridgway's Rail, constitutes a major effort to help preserve and protect the Bay Area's coastal natural resources.
As a graduate student, I studied the physiological responses of marine invertebrates to environmental change. My research focused on the physiological responses of Phyllaplysia taylori, a mollusk residing in San Francisco Bay, to warming and salinity change scenarios - research which contributed to the knowledge base of global climate change and its associated impacts. A copy of my master's thesis can be found here, and the paper published in Marine Biology can be found here.
Our main project is the San Francisco Estuary Invasive Spartina Project (ISP), an ongoing effort to remove invasive Spartina alterniflora from the marshes of San Francisco Bay. The elimination of this invasive cordgrass, alongside revegetation efforts and active monitoring of the endangered California Ridgway's Rail, constitutes a major effort to help preserve and protect the Bay Area's coastal natural resources.
As a graduate student, I studied the physiological responses of marine invertebrates to environmental change. My research focused on the physiological responses of Phyllaplysia taylori, a mollusk residing in San Francisco Bay, to warming and salinity change scenarios - research which contributed to the knowledge base of global climate change and its associated impacts. A copy of my master's thesis can be found here, and the paper published in Marine Biology can be found here.
