The original white abalone StoryMap was a collaborative effort between the UC Davis, Bodega Marine Laboratory White Abalone Captive Breeding Program, California Sea Grant Extension , and the California Sea Grant State Fellows Program . Much of the content on this website was created through the development of that StoryMap. The California Sea Grant Fellows who began the work for the StoryMap in 2022 are listed below. This information was last updated in April 2022.
Viktoria Kuehn
2020-2021 CA Sea Grant Fellow at the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC)
Kuehn was a California Sea Grant Fellow with San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission’s (BCDC) Sediment Management Program. She helped develop communication and education materials focused on the work at UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboraotry and to tell the broader white abalone story through a digital platform.
Kuehn holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Loyola Marymount University and a Master of Science in Environmental Management from University of San Francisco. She has research experience in wetland and subtidal ecology, and in the application of geospatial science to identify suitable habitat for restoration. Kuehn also has experience in applied aquatic environmental science through her work in consulting, where she conducted field work, authored resource sections for CEQA documents, developed maps, conducted geospatial analysis, and completed permit applications for natural resource agencies. She is presently working at BCDC in the Adapting to Rising Tides Program. In her free time, Kuehn enjoys spending time in, on, and next to the water; when that’s too much effort, she enjoys dabbling in art.
Karen Tanner
2020-2021 CA Sea Grant Fellow at the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC)
Tanner was a California Sea Grant Fellow with San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission’s (BCDC) Sediment Management Program. Tanner worked with San Francisco Bay Conservation & Development Commission’s Regional Shoreline Adaptation Plan and the Adaption to Rising Tides Program, supporting regional planning efforts intended to protect natural systems and infrastructure from sea level rise.
Tanner graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2020.
Karen Gutierrez
2021-2022 CA Sea Grant Fellow at the Delta Stewardship Council
As the Delta Science Program’s Communication, Synthesis, and Decision Support Unit fellow, Gutierrez contributed to efforts that communicated science across different audiences. She also assisted in the completion of the White Abalone StoryMap and its launch.
Gutierrez holds a Master of Science in Earth Sciences from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego where she participated in paleoclimate research by conducting isotope analysis of fossil corals to reconstruct a record of past tropical Pacific climate conditions.
Jennica Moffat
2021-2022 CA Sea Grant Fellow at the Delta Stewardship Council
As a CA Sea Grant fellow, Moffat assisted with synthesis reports with the Science Based Adaptive Management Unit of the Delta Science Program and provided support to the Delta Independent Science Board. She also contributed to the White Abalone StoryMap with pages such as the Captive Breeding Partners.
Moffat graduated with a master’s degree in biology with a focus in ecology and evolution at California State University, Northridge in Spring 2021. Her thesis work explored the effects of rising temperature on a model cnidarian-microalgal mutualism, the upside-down sea jelly, in an effort to support potential coral reef restoration. She previously worked as a field technician on monitoring projects in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta and Suisun Marsh in the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California, Davis.
White Abalone Captive Breeding Program 