Phoebe
Racine
SEAFOOD SYSTEMS SCIENTIST
AboutHowdy, I’m Phoebe Racine (fee-bee ruh-seen) (she/her), a Project Director at TNC working with communities to restore oysters and eelgrass across California. I’m born and raised in California, with family dotted throughout the state. I’m deeply thankful to work on stewardship issues pertinent to the places and systems in which I have a stake. I recently finished my PhD at UCSB’s Bren School where I thought of myself as a seafood systems scientist. My research spans quantitative marine agricultural ecology and consumer behavior. Past projects include mapping seaweed aquaculture’s potential to mitigate nutrient pollution, surveying California consumers to understand diversity of seafood species consumption, and assessing the social implications of offshore finfish aquaculture. In my spare time, I like to be outside and work with my hands. I appreciate a good pun and like to make jokes.
A touch tank at the California Seaweed Festival, 2021
Conducting a study of seafood market interactions
Santa Barbara Fishermen’s Market, 2019
On this site you can find my CV and links to social media profiles and GitHub. As an indigenous scientist working with secondary data, I’ve been working to understand how I can do my work in a good way. You’ll find a link to a curated reading list titled “Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Open Data in Environmental Science,” a public, living resource I complied to try to understand what that might look like. I found it useful to understand research and best practices created by Indigenous authors. Hopefully you’ll find it useful too.
On the resources page you’ll find most are geared towards PhD students but a few (coming soon) are for more general audiences. Photos were taken by me unless otherwise stated.