MCSI Board & Faculty

Marine and Coastal Science Institute Advisory Board

  1. Adam Wagschal – H.T. Harvey & Associates (fisheries)
  2. Aldaron Laird – Trinity Associates (sea level rise)
  3. Dee Ray Pemberton – Commercial Fisherman
  4. Greg Dale – Coast Seafoods
  5. Jeff Anderson – Hydrologist
  6. Jennifer Savage – SurfRider
  7. Jim Harvey – Director, Moss Landing Marine Laboratory
  8. Kat Crane - Cal Department Fish & Wildlife (fisheries)
  9. Megan Van Pelt – Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation
  10. Mike Belchik – Yurok Tribe
  11. Randy Lovell - Cal Department Fish & Wildlife (aquaculture)
  12. Tim Klassen – Recreational Charter Fisherman
  13. Tom Marking – Pacific Fishery Management Council (groundfish)
  14. Whelan Gilkerson – Pacific Watershed Associates

Marine and Coastal Science Institute Faculty

Executive Committee

  • Brian Tissot, Ph.D. (Director & Professor, Marine Laboratory and Chair, Humboldt Marine & Coastal Science Institute) 
  • Sean Craig, Ph.D. (Professor, Department of Biological Sciences)
  • Tim Mulligan, Ph.D.  (Professor, Department of Fisheries Biology)
  • Laurie Richmond, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Env. Science & Management)
  • Frank J. Shaughnessy, Ph.D. (Professor, Department of Biological Sciences)
  • Frederick W. Zechman, Ph.D. (Associate Dean, College of Natural Resources and Sciences) 

Member faculty

  • Jeffrey Abell, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Dept. of Oceanography)
  • Paul Bourdeau, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences)
  • Eric Bjorkstedt, Ph.D. (Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Fisheries Biology)
  • Jeffry Borgeld, Ph.D. (Professor, Department of Oceanography)
  • Andre Buchheister, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Department of Fisheries Biology)
  • Christine J. Cass, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Department of Oceanography)
  • Catalina Cuellar-Gempeler (Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences)
  • Dengler, Ph.D. (Professor, Department of Geology)
  • P. Dawn Goley, Ph.D. (Professor, Department of Biological Sciences)
  • Jim Graham, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Environmental Science & Management)
  • David Hankin, Ph.D. (Professor Emeritus, Department of Fisheries Biology)
  • Steve Hackett, Ph.D. (Professor and Chair, Department of Economics)
  • Mark Henderson, Ph.D. (Assistant Unit Leader of the California Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit)
  • Matthew P. Hurst, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry)
  • Arne Jacobson, Ph.D. (Professor, Department of Environmental Resources Engineering)
  • Andrew P Kinziger, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Department of Fisheries Biology)
  • Eve Robinson, Ph.D. (Adjunct Professor, Department of Biological Sciences)
  • Daniel O'Shea, M.S. (Lecturer, Departments of Geology and Oceanography) 
  • Clare Till, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry)
  • Joe Tyburczy, Ph.D. (California Sea Grant; Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences)