Darcy Bradley

Lead Scientist
Marine
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Dr. Darcy Bradley is a Lead Ocean Scientist with the Nature Conservancy. She works broadly across the Oceans Program, leading efforts to advance solutions to plastic pollution in the state, address unsustainable fisheries bycatch across the Pacific, and increase the pace and scale of ocean recovery across a broad range of tropical and temperate habitats. Darcy holds a B.A. from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Management from UC Santa Barbara, where she is now an Adjunct Professor. Darcy has nearly 20 years of experience as a non-profit, government, and academic scientist using novel approaches including remote sensing, machine learning, spatial planning, and near real-time data analytics to enhance marine habitat conservation and wildlife protection and recovery. 

What Darcy is working on now:

Darcy is leveraging satellite imagery to track whales from space to inform ship strike avoidance programs, working with a network of partners across California to identify resilient eelgrass strains to improve restoration, tracking plastic use and flows through state-level economies to inform policy design, and developing novel strategy evaluation tools to improve coral restoration.