Jodi Cassell - Program Director, jlcassell@ucdavis.edu, (925) 646-6127

Jodi is the California Sea Grant Extension Program Marine Advisor for San Francisco and San Mateo Counties. Her recent extension programs focus in four major areas: seafood safety (related to consumption of contaminated San Francisco Bay fish); marine mammal management; nonindigenous marine and estuarine species; and salmonid habitat. Jodi co-hosted a California Sea Grant-sponsored Nonindigenous Species Workshop in October 1996 that brought together researchers throughout California to discuss progress and future needs. In addition, she received funding from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to develop a pilot zebra mussel education program for boaters in the San Francisco Bay-Delta region. This project will incorporate a survey of recreational boaters to assess their knowledge of the zebra mussel issue, as well as public outreach to increase the awareness of recreational boaters, the most likely vector for transporting zebra mussels into the state. Beginning in 1999 and continuing today, Jodi received funding from the National Sea Grant College Program and the CALFED Bay-Delta Program to head the West Coast Ballast Outreach Project aimed at improving ballast water management, and thus helping to stem introduction of nonindigenous aquatic nuisance species.

Alisha Dahlstrom - Project Coordinator, adahlstrom@ucdavis.edu, (510) 622-5048

Alisha joined the West Coast Ballast Outreach Project in November 2006 after completing an environmental policy internship with the Ecological Society of America in Washington, D.C. Alisha graduated in 2006 from UC - Santa Barbara with two B.S. degrees, in Aquatic Biology and Environmental Studies. She is based out of the San Francisco Estuary Project office in Oakland, CA.

 

 

 

 

Annie Pierpoint - Education Coordinator, apierpoint@ucdavis.edu, (925) 646-6540 ext. 217

Annie joined the West Coast Ballast Outreach Project in September 2007 after graduating from UC Davis in June 2007 with a major in Environmental Biology and Management, a minor in American Studies, and a love for Aggie Football. She has worked with The Nature Conservancy's Global Invasive Species Initiative and the UC Davis Botanical Conservatory, and spent three months in Costa Rica studying tropical biology. Annie is looking forward to advancing the Project's education and outreach goals from the Pleasant Hill, CA office.