Jenn Phillips joined the Ocean Protection Council in April 2015 and is the lead on ocean acidification and hypoxia. She most recently worked in the NOAA Administrator’s Office where she started as a Knauss Marine Policy Fellow and then spent a year on the Administrator’s staff. During this time, she helped with the development and execution of NOAA’s priorities, such as community resilience, and managed the associated communication and outreach. Jenn has a master’s from the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a B.S. in Biology from Cornell University. Her graduate research explored the impacts of CO2-driven acidification of the Great Lakes through modelling, analysis of EPA data, and community surveys. Jenn grew up in upstate New York, traveled and volunteered throughout South America after college, and is excited to explore California by bike and foot.

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