Jennifer is a broadly trained ecologist with fifteen years experience in interdisciplinary study and management of ecosystems. Using an ecoinformatics approach, she specializes in integrated data solutions in ecology and environmental science using GIS, statistical analysis, spatio-temporal database design and management, and complex systems analysis for natural resources.

Her research and teaching have taken her to the San Blas Islands of Panama at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Station, to the Puget Sound of Washington at the Seattle office of the National Marine Fisheries Service and to remote locations of the Hawaiian Islands such as Hanalei Bay, Kauai and Waimanu Valley, Big Island. She also served eight years on the faculty at Hawaii Pacific University in Kaneohe, Hawaii as an Instructor of Biology and Biostatistics in the Marine and Environmental Science Programs.

Jennifer received her B.A. in Biological Sciences with magna cum laude honors from Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts. She completed her graduate work at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii with a M.S. in Zoology specializing in marine ecology, and a Ph.D. in Geography, specializing in marine resource management. Her field-based thesis research addressed aspects of the early life history of coral reef fish important to the aquarium fish trade. Supported by a STAR Fellowship from the US EPA, her dissertation utilized a agent-based modeling approach to design and evaluate management alternatives for tropical coral reef fisheries.

Active in volunteering her time and expertise in service to her community, Jennifer advises the Sarasota County Commission on the public acquisition of environmental lands and environmental policy. Jennifer also serves on the Technical Advisory Committee of the Sarasota Bay Estuary Program. Jennifer grew up in Sarasota, where her family has lived and worked for almost four decades.

David has eighteen years of basic and applied research and management experience as an ecologist with expertise in population ecology, conservation, and management using species-specific and ecosystem-based approaches.

He has experience in conducting management studies, assessments, and impact analyses including co-authoring the first Coral Reef Ecosystem Management Study for the Marine Corps in Hawaii, evaluating species-specific fisheries management plans for NOAA, and recommending fundamental paradigm shifts and more sustainable ecosystem-based approaches to managing what is now the largest marine protected area in the world: The National Marine Monument in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

David's research utilizes techniques in population ecology, biological, physical, and fisheries oceanography, and geophysics to study the population dynamics of marine organisms and the biological and physical factors that may regulate their recruitment, growth, and survival. His research has implications for understanding the effects of small (e.g., seasonal), moderate (e.g., El Nino) and long term (e.g., global climate) environmental oscillations on population ecology and evolution. His research has been funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency, National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration, Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, Hawaii Coral Reef Initiative, and others.

He has a B.A in Biological Sciences from Wabash College in Indiana, where he was a Lilly Scholar and a PhD in Zoology (Population Ecology) from the University of Hawaii.