Karlee Liddy

UC Santa Cruz, Master's Candidate

After graduating from the University of South Carolina with a B.S. in Environmental Science, Karlee Liddy volunteered with Peace Corps, Nicaragua as an Environmental Educator. She holds three years of experience monitoring and estimating populations of threatened and endangered salmonids of Central California’s coastal watersheds. After working with the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Santa Cruz Laboratory, she was accepted into the Coastal Science & Policy master’s program at UC Santa Cruz. As a Repass- Rodgers Fellow, Karlee plans to inform policies that integrate groundwater recharge and regenerative management of stream-adjacent lands to ultimately protect and restore Central Valley salmonids.