Byron Riggins
Byron Riggins, 2020 State Fellow
University Affiliation: Estuary and Ocean Science Center at San Francisco State University

Byron Riggins will graduate with a master's degree in interdisciplinary marine and estuarine sciences from San Francisco State University's Estuary and Ocean Science Center in 2020. His graduate research focuses on beds of rockweed (Fucus distichus), a brown algae which provides multiple benefits for invertebrate prey of fish and shorebirds in an urbanized estuary. Riggins was also a science intern with the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide.

During his fellowship, Riggins will be working with the Collaborative Science and Peer Review Unit of the Delta Science Program.

Byron Riggins will graduate with a master's degree in interdisciplinary marine and estuarine sciences from San Francisco State University's Estuary and Ocean Science Center in 2020. His graduate research focuses on beds of rockweed (Fucus distichus), a brown algae which provides multiple benefits for invertebrate prey of fish and shorebirds in an urbanized estuary. Riggins was also a science intern with the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide.

During his fellowship, Riggins will be working with the Collaborative Science and Peer Review Unit of the Delta Science Program.

Byron Riggins, 2020 State Fellow
Host Agency: 
Delta Science Program