Staff

Patrick Burden, M.S.
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Marcus Hartley, M.S.
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Jonathan King, M.S.
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Joel Ainsworth, B.A.
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Alexus Bond, M.A.
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Leah Cuyno, Ph.D.
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Mike Fisher, MSPM, MBA, PMP
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Michelle Humphrey, B.S.
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Cal Kerr, MBA, M.S., PMP
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Terri McCoy, B.A.
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Alejandra Palma, M.A.
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Diane Sauer
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Bill Schenken, MBA
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Don Schug, Ph.D.
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Trina Wellman, Ph.D.
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Trina Wellman

Associate Marine Environmental Economist

Katharine (Trina) Wellman is an associate of Northern Economics based in Seattle, WA. Dr. Wellman holds a Ph.D. in Natural Resource Economics and an M.M.A. in Marine policy, both from the University of Washington, Seattle. She has worked at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Battelle Memorial Institute as a research scientist and natural resource economist. More recently she has been a private consultant in marine resource economics and coastal management.

Trina's work includes authorship of two guides on the use of environmental valuation in coastal management and policy decision making, assessments of the economics of aquatic habitat restoration and the Assessment of Natural Resource Values and Economic and Environmental Impacts of Actions Selected for the Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan, which was prepared for the Lower Columbia River Estuary Program by Battelle Research Centers and The Research Group.

She contributed to Assessing Stakeholder Values for the Tillamook Bay National Estuary Project, a report prepared for USEPA Office of Ocean Coastal Protection Division and Tillamook National Estuary Project, Garibaldi, Oregon. She also participated in identifying and quantifying impacts of improved ocean observing system information on the various economic sectors that utilize such information within the states of Washington and Oregon for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She also co-authored the journal articles, “Bringing Stakeholder Values into Environmental Policy Choices: A Community-Based Estuary Case Study,” and “Assessing Stakeholder Values for Salmon Restoration in Willapa Bay, Washington.”

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Claim to fame: Member of the Atlantic Clarion Steel Drum band and the first case of a resistant strain of malaria contracted in West Africa

Great escape: The Big Island of Hawaii and Sorrento, on the Maine coast.

Curious about: Hummingbirds and what makes people tick.