Heather Galindo

As Assistant Director of Science for COMPASS, I help connect science and scientists across a diverse range of topics and catalyze synthesis through workshops, conference symposia, presentations and peer-reviewed papers, with a current focus on advancing the science of climate change and ocean acidification effects on marine ecosystems.  I came to COMPASS following a postdoctoral position in fisheries genetics at the University of Washington, and received my Ph.D. in biological sciences from Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station.  My research combined approaches from oceanographic modeling, field ecology and population genetics to track how marine larvae move among populations (sort of like CSI, but for barnacles). I have also studied how people think about marine population connectivity and worked at the intersection of science and policy in a state-level marine planning process.  I have undergraduate degrees in biological oceanography and English literature from the University of Washington. In my free time, I still love to explore the intertidal in big rubber boots.