Robin Grossinger is an environmental scientist at the San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI). SFEI works to protect the San Francisco Bay Estuary through the scientific understanding of the physical processes affecting its health and functioning. Robin directs the Historical Ecology Program at SFEI which focuses on understanding how the Bay Area landscape has changed over the past 200 years...

"...I find practically every place in the region fascinating, be it urban or rural, because I can picture what it was like 150 years ago. I can almost always find remnants or traces of the historical landscape..." — Robin Grossinger, SFEI