Jenna Sullivan-Stack

Dr. Jenna Sullivan-Stack is a marine ecologist dedicated to finding and sharing evidence-driven solutions to threats facing our ocean. She is currently a Research Associate at Oregon State University with The MPA Project, which aims to help improve ocean protection outcomes by connecting marine ecological and social science and other ways of knowing with policy and management decisions. A major focus of Dr. Sullivan-Stack’s current work is to help ensure that ocean protection in area-based management tools such as marine protected areas and other conserved areas is effective. She works with diverse colleagues around the world to accomplish this, through co-developing and using assessment tools such as The MPA Guide. Dr. Sullivan-Stack currently sits on expert groups organized by the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas, UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre and Protected Planet, and the National Ocean Protection Coalition. In her PhD research, Jenna took advantage of the diverse, well-characterized system of the Oregon coast rocky intertidal to gain insights into how human-induced changes, including marine disease, ocean acidification and top predator loss, affect individual species and their interactions.