Jordan Hollarsmith

Mariculture Research Lead

Jordan’s background includes a diverse range of lab-, field- and synthesis-based approaches to answer ecological questions across many different habitats, including:

Impacts of global change on early life stages of kelp and oysters
Methods for kelp forest and coral reef rehabilitation
Seasonal hydrology and oceanography of estuaries
Baseline surveys of mesophotic habitats using ROVs
Cumulative effects assessments
Expert knowledge to inform ecosystem assessments

Jordan earned her PhD in 2019 from the University of California-Davis where her work focused on the resilience of marine habitat-forming species to global change. She then spent a year as a Canadian Healthy Oceans postdoctoral fellow at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, working on improving methods to conduct cumulative effects assessments. Throughout her career, she has prioritized diverse partnerships with industry, government agencies, and academic institutions in the US and abroad, including work in Chile, Mexico, Indonesia, Australia, and the Dominican Republic. She received a B.A. from Columbia University.