Staff Bios
Bob Wilson
(interim ED) is active in a number of marine environmental organizations.
He is the former Chair of the FMSA board and is currently Treasurer
and CFO. He has been an active Beachwatch and SEALS volunteer.
He is on the GFNMS Sanctuary Advisory Council. He is a director
emeritus of The Marine Mammal Center, is currently Policy Liaison
for TMMC and is an animal care volunteer. Bob is also the
Board Chair of Polar Bears International (US) and Vice Chair of
PBI (Canada). He is an attorney and retired from the Federal
government.
Bob's Links: The
Marine Mammal Center and Polar
Bears International
Amy
Dean is the Education Manager for FMSA. She manages
the student intertidal monitoring projects for the Sanctuary, leads
teacher workshops, and develops curriculum for middle and high school
students. Amy earned a Masters Degree in Marine Biology from San
Francisco State University and has nine years of experience teaching
environmental science to students of all ages.
Amy's Links: The
Berneses Mountain Dog
Dru
Devlin is a Research Associate for the Farallones Marine
Sanctuary Association. She assists with the management of volunteers,
surveys, data and quality control. Ms. Devlin has years experience
developing and implementing marine and environmental education programs
for adults and children and was the associate director for the Tarlton
Institute for Marine Education. She earned both her Master's of
Public and Business Administration, and B.A. in Social Ecology from
the University of California at Irvine.
Dru's Links: Seafood
Watch and Surfline
Women
Shannon
Lyday is the Beach Watch Manager. She coordinates Beach
Watch, a long-term monitoring program that utilizes the expertise
of over 100 citizen scientists to collect data along the coast.
Shannon started out with FMSA as the Education Specialist implementing
the high school sandy beach and rocky intertidal monitoring programs.
After graduating from the University of Colorado in Environmental
Science she worked as a Wolf Project Intern for the Sierra Club
and as a Marine Conservation Intern for the Reef Environmental Education
Foundation (REEF) in the Florida Keys.
Shannon's Links: Kirkwood
Snow Report and Tagging
of Pacific Pelagic
Susanna
Beck is the Development Manager for FMSA. In 2001,
Susanna graduated from the University of California, San Diego with
a B.A. in History and minors in Environmental Studies and Critical
Gender Studies. Susanna has been involved with several international
development organizations around the globe and most recently comes
from Maine where she worked with Sustainable Harvest International.
As a Bay Area native, however, Susanna says it is good to be back
home.
Susanna's Links: Sustainable
Harvest International and World
of Good
Sara
Heintzelman is the Education Specialist for FMSA. She
facilitates the student intertidal monitoring projects, has a lead
role in the management and instruction of SeaCamp as Camp Director,
as well as assisting with teacher development and other education
programs. Sara earned a BS in Ecology from UC San Diego and a Masters
in Marine Science from UC Santa Barbara. Most recently, Sara taught
nature education programs for WildCare in San Rafael and has been
teaching environmental education programs for over five years.
Sara's Links: Wild
Care and Oceans
Live
Justin Holl
is the Visitor Center Manager for FMSA. He manages the Sanctuary
Visitor Center education programs, exhibits, and saltwater aquaria.
Since graduating from Stanford University with a BS and Masters
Degree in Earth Systems, Justin has worked as a Geologist studying
coastal erosion for the USGS, as Publications Coordinator for Jasper
Ridge Biological Preserve and most recently as the Co-Coordinator
of Outreach for Estación Costera de Investigaciones
Marinas, a marine research laboratory in central Chile.
Adrian
Skaj is a native San Franciscan who graduated from
San Francisco State University with a BA in Women's Studies and
a Minor in Holistic Health. She is happy to use her administrative
skills to support the fine work accomplished here at FMSA where
she serves as the Finance Officer and Whale Watch trip coordinator.
Adrian is also an Iyengar Yoga teacher and teaches at Yoga Garden,
Iyengar Yoga Institute, YMCA, ClubOne and the USF Koret Center in
San Francisco.
Adrian's Links:
Iyengar
Yoga Institute of SF, Vipassana
Meditation andStation
46026 - 18NM West of SF
Peter
Winch is the Visitor Center Naturalist and assists
with the running of the visitor center and their educational program.
He has a BS in Environmental Science from Plymouth University, England,
and has a background as a scientist and as an educator. He
has studied seabirds in Alaska, Hawaii, Baja Mexico and Oregon for
US Fish and Wildlife and The Island Ecology Group, and worked as
a naturalist for Oceanic Society Expeditions on Whale Watching Trips
off California for five years. A self confessed ocean addict, Peter
surfs and dives, and is excited to be doing outreach and education
for such a remarkable marine sanctuary.
Peter's Links: Sea
Shepherd Conservation Society and Research
Vessel Tiburon
Rudyard
Wallen is the accidental webmaster for the Farallones
website. A high school drop-out, he cut classes to go exploring
or to read at the library. Please contact him for questions, comments,
email issues, or to send updates or suggestions. Rudyard's favorite
things on the planet include Araceae,
moss piglets
and other
critters, celestial
and atmospheric
phenomenon, cooking, traveling, little
things, and tending his carnivorous
plants (the newest from BACPS).
All while stumbling through the art
of living.
Stefan
Marti is the editor of Upwelling and content manager
of the Farallones website. He earned a MFA in Creative Writing &
Literary Arts from the University of Alaska. In his free time, he
likes to surf and hang out in his garden.
