Kim Selkoe
Kim Selkoe grew up in Boston and spent summers in Cape Cod and Nantucket exploring tide pools and fishing off the docks. A move to Woods Hole to get work as a scientific collections diver landed her in a lab studying lobster behavior, and that led to a Ph.D. in marine ecology at UCSB, 1999 - 2005. Her dissertation work on kelp bass population genetics required fishing throughout Southern California and Baja California, Mexico. In 2007 she created the Santa Barbara Sustainable Seafood Program through the Sea Center. Difficulty accessing local seafood led her to partner with urchin diver Stephanie Mutz to launch a community supported fishery program called Community Seafood that ran 2011 - 2015.
In addition to working with CFSB and the Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce on marketing of local seafood as the director of FishSB, she is an academic marine scientist with affiliations to the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management and Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology.