Tova Handelman earned a master’s degree in coastal and marine resources management with a focus on strategic environmental communication and media from the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2016. Her group thesis work evaluated citizen science as a method for monitoring the rocky intertidal zone.
As a State Fellow with the Ocean Protection Council, Tova helped manage an ongoing effort among several state agencies and partners to collaborate on the long-term management of marine protected areas (MPAs).
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