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Julia Parrish

Committee Chair

Julia K. Parrish is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of the Environment at the University of Washington, where she holds a Lowell A. and Frankie L. Wakefield Professorship in Ocean Fishery Sciences. She is a marine biologist, conservation biologist, and specialist in citizen science. She is also the Executive Director of the Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team (COASST), a citizen science program involving over 800 participants collecting monthly data on the identity and abundance of beach-cast birds and marine debris, with the goal of creating the definitive baseline against which the impacts of any catastrophe - oil spill, harmful algal bloom, marine heatwave, tsunami - could be measured.

Julia is a Governor appointee to the Northwest Straits Commission and the current chair of the Science Advisory Committee.