Research Interests
Kaycee Coleman is a Research Project Manager at RUCOOL. She holds a M.S. in Oceanography and has over a decade of experience in scientific analyses, data management, project management and creating and maintaining relationships with various stakeholders. At RUCOOL, her goal is to support center members and ease their project and center management workloads. Coleman also leads the Department of Marine and Coastal Science’s Vessel Oversight Committee and has a wealth of knowledge in health, safety, and environmental permitting and regulations especially in regard to Offshore Wind Fisheries Monitoring and Oceanography Plans. Previously in her career, she has worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service managing the Northwest Atlantic Seabird Catalog, most notably on a project with NOAA and BOEM to inform offshore wind development. She has also worked for the Oyster Recovery Partnership where she led the development and training for Maryland’s electronic harvest reporting program for charter, crab, finfish, and oyster harvest as well as managed the dockside monitoring program to verify harvest.
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