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Science for a Healthy Bay Area

The San Francisco Estuary Institute

 

 

The solutions we need now to meet the climate crisis

SFEI is acting now to make the Bay Area and our communities more resilient to the impacts of rising waters, rising temperatures, and increasingly severe storms. Our region has the resources and creativity to withstand the push for single-minded “concrete” solutions to complex threats such as sea level rise.

SFEI’s reliable science, networks built on trust, and creative collaboration help heal ecosystems.  Our work also guides infrastructure investments to safeguard our shared home.

 

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Our science helps guide the work of policy-makers, Tribal leaders, natural resource managers, city officials, researchers, journalists, and community organizers.

 

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Clean Water

Our cutting-edge pollutant studies and 30-year administration of the Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality have led to a cleaner Bay.

Resilient Landscapes

Our nature-based strategies are helping the Bay Area adapt to climate change, sequester carbon, improve human health and wellbeing, support native wildlife, and increase equity.

Environmental Informatics

Our dynamic, science-based tools are accessible to all to support decision making for a healthier environment.

 

 

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While SFEI’s work is largely government-funded, independent donors leverage that investment and are essential.
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News You Can Use

 

New $3 million grant to support harmful algae monitoring in the San Francisco Estuary
Oct 3, 2023

NOAA recently announced that it is awarding a $3-million grant, through its Monitoring and Event Response Research Program (MERHAB) to support the development of a harmful algal bloom (HAB) monitoring program for the San Francisco Estuary. The project, led by scientists at the San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI), US Geological Survey, and California Department of Water Resources (DWR), will leverage on-going research and monitoring activities in the Bay and Delta to build a robust system-wide HAB monitoring program for the Estuary.

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Save the Bay: Climate Conversations-Greening our Cities
Sep 11, 2023
Restoration Plan for the Laguna de Santa Rosa Completed!
Aug 29, 2023
Recently completed “Sycamore Alluvial Woodland Restoration and Enhancement Suitability Study”
Jul 12, 2023

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Our Team

SFEI’s sixty+ scientists, technologists, and designers work with our partners to define environmental problems, advance public policy, and develop science-based strategies to meet the climate crisis and protect our shared home.
  • Biruk Imagnu's picture

    Biruk Imagnu
    Technical Support Manager

  • Jennifer Symonds's picture

    Jennifer Symonds
    Environmental Analyst

  • Martin Trinh's picture

    Martin Trinh
    Environmental Analyst

  • Lilia Mourier's picture

    Lilia Mourier
    Environmental Analyst

  • Shira Bezalel's picture

    Shira Bezalel
    Database Administrator / Desktop Support Manager

  • Rebecca Sutton's picture

    Rebecca Sutton, PhD
    Senior Scientist

  • Farid Karimpour's picture

    Farid Karimpour
    Environmental Scientist

  • Lawrence Sim's picture

    Lawrence Sim
    Geospatial Software Engineer

  • Ruth Askevold's picture

    Ruth Askevold, MS
    Design Manager

  • Randy Turner's picture

    Randy Turner
    Associate Environmental Scientist, Klamath Basin Monitoring Program Coordinator

  • Patrick Walsh's picture

    Patrick Walsh
    Director of Finance and Contracts

  • Vanessa Lee's picture

    Vanessa Lee
    Ecological Planner / Landscape Designer

  • Kyle Stark's picture

    Kyle Stark
    Environmental Scientist

  • Sarah Lowe's picture

    Sarah Lowe
    Environmental Scientist , Senior Project Manager, Assistant to the Chief Scientist

  • Katarina Palermo's picture

    Kat Palermo
    Associate GIS Specialist

  • Meredith Lofthouse's picture

    Meredith Lofthouse
    Contracts Associate

  • Jennifer Dougherty's picture

    Jennifer Dougherty, PhD
    Environmental Scientist

  • Warner Chabot's picture

    Warner Chabot
    Executive Director

  • David Peterson's picture

    David Peterson
    Associate Environmental Scientist

  • Diana Lin's picture

    Diana Lin, PhD
    Senior Scientist

  • Gemma Shusterman's picture

    Gemma Shusterman
    Software Engineering Manager

  • Beth Ebiner's picture

    Beth Ebiner
    Associate Project Manager

  • Ariella Chelsky's picture

    Ariella Chelsky, PhD
    Senior Scientist

  • Kelly D. Moran's picture

    Kelly D. Moran, Ph.D.
    Senior Scientist

  • Ezra Miller's picture

    Ezra Miller, PhD
    Environmental Scientist

  • Donald Yee's picture

    Donald Yee, PhD
    Senior Environmental Scientist

  • Selena Pang's picture

    Selena Pang
    Environmental Scientist

  • Pete Kauhanen's picture

    Pete Kauhanen, MA
    Senior GIS Manager

  • Amy Kleckner's picture

    Amy Kleckner
    Program Managing Director

  • Sacha Heath's picture

    Sacha Heath, PhD
    Environmental Scientist

  • Linda Russio's picture

    Linda Russio
    Administrative Services Manager

  • Sam Safran's picture

    Sam Safran
    Consulting Ecologist

  • Scott Dusterhoff's picture

    Scott Dusterhoff, MS
    Program Managing Director

  • Adam Wong's picture

    Adam Wong
    Environmental Analyst, Technology Specialist

  • David Senn's picture

    David Senn, PhD
    Program Director

  • Dan Killam's picture

    Dan Killam
    Environmental Scientist

  • Cristina Grosso's picture

    Cristina Grosso, MA
    Program Managing Director

  • Katie McKnight's picture

    Katie McKnight
    Environmental Scientist

  • Lorenzo Flores's picture

    Lorenzo Flores
    Software Engineer

  • Kendall Harris's picture

    Kendall Harris
    Associate Environmental Scientist

  • Alex Braud's picture

    Alex Braud
    GIS Specialist/Environmental Scientist

  • Lauren Stoneburner's picture

    Lauren Stoneburner
    Environmental Scientist

  • Jay Davis's picture

    Jay A. Davis, PhD
    Program Director

  • Anna de Lopez's picture

    Anna de Lopez
    Operations Assistant

  • Janice Chiu's picture

    Janice Chiu
    Senior Accountant

  • Lydia Vaughn's picture

    Lydia Smith Vaughn, PhD
    Senior Environmental Scientist

  • Denise Walker's picture

    Denise Walker
    Associate Environmental Scientist

  • Tony Hale's picture

    Tony Hale, PhD
    Program Director

  • Cate Jaffe's picture

    Cate Jaffe
    Environmental Analyst

  • Michael Weaver's picture

    Michael Weaver
    Technical Analyst

  • Allie King's picture

    Allie King, PhD
    Environmental Scientist

  • Kayli Paterson's picture

    Kayli Paterson
    Associate Environmental Scientist

  • Helen Casendino's picture

    Helen Casendino
    Environmental Analyst

  • Gwen Miller's picture

    Gwen Miller
    Environmental Scientist

  • Ellen Plane's picture

    Ellen Plane
    Environmental Scientist

  • Melissa Foley's picture

    Melissa Foley, PhD
    Program Science Director

  • April Robinson's picture

    April Robinson
    Environmental Scientist

  • Kelly Iknayan's picture

    Kelly Iknayan, PhD
    Environmental Scientist

  • Sienna White's picture

    Sienna White
    Environmental Analyst

  • Sarah Pearce's picture

    Sarah Pearce
    Geomorphologist

  • Regan Murray's picture

    Regan Murray
    GIS Analyst

  • Sean Baumgarten's picture

    Sean Baumgarten
    Environmental Scientist

  • Donna Ball's picture

    Donna Ball
    Senior Scientist

  • Jen Trudeau's picture

    Jen Trudeau
    Managing Director (SFEI), Program Managing Director

  • Miguel Mendez's picture

    Miguel Mendez
    Associate Environmental Scientist

  • Alicia Gilbreath's picture

    Alicia Gilbreath
    Environmental Scientist

  • Caitlin Crain's picture

    Caitlin Crain
    Senior Tidal Wetland Ecologist

  • Pedro M. Avellaneda-Lopez's picture

    Pedro M. Avellaneda-Lopez
    Environmental Scientist

  • Alison Whipple's picture

    Alison Whipple, PhD
    Program Science Director

  • Karen Verpeet's picture

    Karen Verpeet, MLA
    Program Managing Director

  • Jeremy Lowe's picture

    Jeremy Lowe
    Senior Environmental Scientist

  • Lester McKee's picture

    Lester McKee, PhD
    Senior Environmental Scientist

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