Speaker: Michelle McClure
Bio:
Michelle McClure has been the director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory since 2019, where she leads the lab’s oceanographic research focused on the ocean’s impacts on and interactions with climate and seasonal patterns such as El Nino, as well as ocean acidification, fisheries-oceanography and tsunamis. In this role, she is also co-leading NOAA’s national Climate-Ecosystem-Fisheries Initiative, which is designed to provide regionally-specific, high-resolution ocean projections for fisheries and other marine management. Prior to joining PMEL, Michelle served as the director of the Fishery Resource Analysis and Monitoring Division at NOAA’s Northwest Fisheries Science Center, leading the scientific support for the management of west coast groundfishes. She also led NMFS’s national effort to develop guidelines for incorporating climate change science into Endangered Species Act decision-making and served as the chair of the Technical Recovery Team for salmon and steelhead in the Interior Columbia Basin. Michelle received her PhD from Cornell University in ecology and evolutionary biology, with a focus on fish development and evolution, and a BA/BS from The Evergreen State College. Michelle enjoys working at the interface of science, policy and management.