Morgan Visalli earned a master’s degree in coastal marine resource management and strategic environmental communication from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2014. For her thesis, Visalli developed a bio-economic model to evaluate the feasibility of turning fish discards into valuable aquaculture feed ingredients in small-scale fishing communities in Baja California Sur, Mexico.
Visalli helped the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary hosts a multi-stakeholder collaborative process and used a scientific ocean planning tool, SeaSketch, to explore solutions that align multiple human uses in the Santa Barbara Channel and minimize impacts to the marine environment.
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University of California, Santa Barbara