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

Jodi is the California Sea Grant Extension Program Marine Advisor for the San Francisco Bay region, stationed in Contra Costa County.  Her work with Sea Grant focuses on the science and management of aquatic invasive species, water policy, science education, and social science & policy for natural resources.  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.  This project aims to improve ballast water management, and thus helping to stem introduction of aquatic invasive species.  She is currently researching the use of live organisms in schools as a vector for aquatic invasive species introductions, and is also involved in research and education programs focusing on invasive Eurasian mussels (Zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha, and Quagga mussel, Dreissena rostriformis bugensis) in California.  Jodi has a B.S. in Biology from Harvard University, and a M.S. in Marine Resource Management from Oregon State University.  She also is pursuing a PhD in Environmental Policy and Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.  Her dissertation focuses on water policy and management issues in the Sacramento- San Joaquin Delta in California.