Liz Rogers holds a master’s in international environmental policy from the Monterey Institute of International Studies. While in graduate school, she was a research assistant with the National Ocean Economics Program at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and an accreditation manager at the non-profit Big Sur Land Trust. She was also a former Peace Corps volunteer in Mali, West Africa.
Rogers was a State Fellow with the California Ocean Science Trust in Oakland, a non-profit public benefit corporation established to incorporate the best available science into state marine policy and management. Her assignment was to communicate scientific research needs, priorities and funding to the Ocean Protection Council (OPC) and other related agencies. In this effort, she coordinated working groups and gathered research materials for the OPC’s Science Advisory Team and prepareed and edited presentations, press releases and fact sheets on science conducted with OPC funding to facilitate the translation of science into useful products for managers and policy makers. She was also involved with the OPC’s Wetland Carbon Sequestration Initiative.
