Biographical Information

Kristen Honey is a member of E-IPER's fourth class. She is a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science To Achieve Results (STAR) program Fellow and a Stanford University Graduate Fellow (SGF) in Science and Engineering.

Kristen comes to Stanford University from Portland, Maine, and the small island community of Long Island, Maine. During summer 2006, Kristen had opportunity to work in her hometown at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI) as an intern with Dr. Andy Pershing, University of Maine. The GMRI experience offered first-hand opportunity to see how fishermen, environmentalists, and fishery regulators can partner in nodes of collaborative marine research activities and forward sustainable fishing.

Research Interests

Kristen's academic passion is collaborative and integrative fisheries management to bridge the gaps between regulators, scientists, and fishermen. Her Stanford research is motivated by interdisciplinary challenges and big-picture questions like:
-Can we create win-win options for marine conservation and fisheries management?
-If so, how do we successfully implement, monitor, and assess marine ecosystem-based management approaches? Kristen investigates these questions with the Micheli Lab, based out of Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station in Monterey Bay.

At Stanford, she uses biological, economic, and engineering tools to develop new quantitative tools and simulation models for applied ocean challenges. She is developing and optimizing sampling designs to efficiently and effectively monitor fish population responses to Central California's existing network of marine reserves. Other doctoral work uses Bayesian methods to explicitly incorporate environmental uncertainty and dynamic ocean conditions into simulation models for revised scientific expectations (and, hopefully, public expectations) about what marine reserves can realistically deliver as a fisheries management tool.

Teaching Activities

Before choosing a career in science, Kristen taught English in Central Java, Indonesia, at Solo Laboratory of English (1994-1995). She served as one year as an undergraduate volunteer with VIA (formerly, Volunteers in Asia).

Since committing to a career in science, Kristen has been a lecturer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and at Stanford University. She has spoken on the San Francisco Bay-Delta and water issues in California, which conflict with the ecological needs (and legal rights) of endangered native fish in California. She has also given guest lectures on introduced species of San Francisco Estuary, including public talks and collaborative outreach efforts with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in Menlo Park, CA.

Professional Activities

Kristen completed her undergraduate degree at Stanford in Human Biology in 1997 with an Honor's thesis on introduced mollusks in San Francisco Estuary. As an undergrad, she studied at Hopkins Marine Station and conducted student research as a scientific diver. She worked as a benthic biologist for Dr. Jan Thompson at U.S. Geological Survey (Menlo Park) and as an Oceans Program research assistant at Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).

Other professional experience includes three years as an Environmental Scientist for Eastern Research Group, Inc. (Lexington, MA); two years as an Environmental Specialist with the San Francisco Estuary Project (SFEP) (Oakland, CA) as a liaison with the CALFED Science Program (Sacramento, CA); and two years as a Fish Ecologist (student researcher) at the John Muir Institute for the Environment, U.C. Davis.