Founder and director of MasKelp.
Nur is a postdoc at Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University, co-chair of the IUCN Seaweed Specialist group, with expertise in climate change adaptation and conservation planning. Passionate about kelp forests and marine protected areas. His goal is to ensure kelp forests are recognized in international and national policies as a priority ecosystem for biodiversity conservation. He works with local communities, NGOs, government agencies, and scientists to identify climate refugia to tell future generations how we recovered and safeguarded kelp forests around the world.

Founder and outreach management of MasKelp.
Caro is a marine ecologist, jellyfish expert and kelp forest certified diver. Passionate about the ocean and all animals living in it, with broad laboratory and field experience. She currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University focusing on the impact of climate change and COVID19 in small-scale fisheries. She is motivated to share science to all audiences and to tell inspiring stories about kelp forests and the ocean.

Underwater kelp monitoring advisor of MasKelp.
Fio is the David and Lucile Packard Professor of Marine Science at Stanford University, chair of the Oceans Department in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, co-director of Stanford’s Center for Ocean Solutions, and a Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation. Her research focuses on the processes shaping marine communities and coastal social-ecological systems, incorporating this understanding in marine conservation and in co-designing solutions with decision-makers and communities. She investigates the impacts of and adaptation to climate change on marine ecosystems, communities and fisheries. She also works on marine predators’ ecology and trophic cascades, the dynamics and sustainability of small-scale fisheries, and the design and function of Marine Protected Areas.

Kelp mapping advisor of MasKelp.
Kyle studies the drivers and consequences of changes in coastal foundation species such as giant kelp forests. He is especially interested in what controls large-scale changes in the distribution and abundance of these species. Much of his research utilizes remote sensing (e.g., satellite, aerial, and UAV imagery) to document ecological change over large space and time scales. Cavanaugh is an Assistant Professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and the UCLA Geography Department. He likes to observe coastal ecosystems from a variety of perspectives: under the sea, waist deep in a mangrove swamp, or via a satellite orbiting 700 km above the earth.

Environmental DNA advisor for MasKelp.
Adrian is a marine biologist and population geneticist associated as a researcher with the Conservation Genetics Lab at the University of Arizona, Tucson, US and a National Geographic Society Explorer. Founder and director of an independent genomics research facility (Applied Genomics Lab) based in La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico. He conducts transdisciplinary research in marine and terrestrial environments at the intersection of academia, local communities, industry, government and civil society organizations, and through his work he tries to redefine the role of scientists in society. The common thread in his research projects is the application of genetic and genomic tools to understand, manage, and conserve biodiversity in the context of the deep evolutionary history of species but also related to recent human impacts and climate change.

Ambassador of MasKelp in Mexico.
Jessica is a highly passionate AAUS scientific diver working with kelp forest and seagrass ecosystems, with a focus on conservation and climate change impacts. Currently pursuing her MSc in Coastal Oceanography in Mexico, in collaboration with Stanford University on the role of community fisheries management strategies in preserving Baja California's kelp forests. She has collaborated on several projects, including seagrass restoration initiatives in Brazil (RestoreSeas) and co-leading kelp forest expeditions in Baja California with MasKelp. A lover of surf and science, she founded 'Nosotras y el Mar' to unite women for environmental education and sustainable ocean development.

Ambassador of MasKelp in Argentina.
Caro is a biologist currently based on the coast of Patagonia, working at Por el Mar, a marine conservation organization whose primary goal today is to protect the kelp forest corridor of Patagonia.
Caro is part of the scientific and conservation team, inside the interdisciplinary team or Por el Mar, that
studies and designs the best conservation strategies to protect Argentinian kelp. She considers herself
an avid enthusiast and passionate about the ocean: diving, swimming, studying it, observing it,
documenting it. The aim to learn, understand, and connect herself and others with the ocean has driven her through many work and volunteer experiences worldwide. Still, it always brings her back to the bewildering Patagonian Sea.