Clara Ndungu works on estuarine water quality, and on the awkward problem of attributing a contaminant to a source when three rivers and a city drain into the same inlet.

Farida Haddad works on regional sea level and on translating global climate projections into numbers a coastal planner can use.

Miriam Frost works on stock assessment — the science of estimating how many fish there are, and how many can be taken.

Hana Vasquez works on carbonate chemistry and ocean acidification, with a particular interest in what shellfish larvae experience rather than what the open ocean average says.

Daniel Okonkwo designs coastal protection that works with sediment transport rather than against it, and studies what happens to structures over the decades after they are built.

Lena Scholz works on marine mammal population assessment, and directs the graduate program in marine mammal science.

Oliver Brandt runs R/V Cascadia Strait — the schedule, the crew, the maintenance, and the conversation about whether the weather window is real.

Samuel Hartley builds and maintains the vehicles. If an instrument came back from a deployment with data on it, he is one reason why.

Yuki Nakamura works on shellfish hatchery production and on the practical problem of raising larvae in water that is not as reliable as it used to be.

Marcus Obi teaches the first-year biology sequence and works on the molecular tools that let a water sample stand in for a survey.

Sofia Marchetti works on habitat restoration and on the question of what counts as success when the reference state no longer exists.

Tom Whitfield runs Prentice Coastal Field Station — the boats, the buildings, the tide tables and everyone's safety briefing.