Welcome Anna!
This month the COASST office team is pleased to announce our new Participant Coordinator: Anna Vallery! Like many seabirds, Anna is no stranger to long-distance travel. Anna was born in Texas, but spent a portion
Photo: Hillary Burgess
Blog: Staff Profile
COASSTers are always up to something! Find stories about our participants, updates about beached bird or marine debris research, and read about the latest activities of the COASST office staff and interns.
Staff profile: Rachel Cohen
When Rachel Cohen joined the COASST intern program in 2019 (at the end of her senior year at the University of Washington) she didn’t know that it would lead to a job in marine science!
Staff Profile: Sarah Inman
Sarah’s work at COASST is focused on what COASSTers get out of participating in our program, and what the process of participation looks like. She is picking up the social science torch from Yurong He, who recently began work at Microsoft. Sarah is interested in understanding the relationship between attachment to place (for example, a beach) and critical thinking.