Darcy Bradley

Senior Scientist
Marine
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Darcy is a Senior 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. Much of Darcy’s work focuses on the use of remote sensing and near real-time data analytics to drive conservation opportunities for marine habitat and wildlife protection and recovery.

Prior to joining the Conservancy, Darcy was on the research faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), where she co-led the Ocean Program at the Environmental Markets Lab, an interdisciplinary team of scientists working to identify the power, limitations, and design of market-based approaches to tackle the world's most pressing environmental problems. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Princeton University and a Ph.D. Environmental Science and Management from UCSB, where she is now an Adjunct Professor.

What Darcy is working on now:

Darcy is currently undertaking a variety of baseline assessments of plastic use and end of life management in California using remote sensing and machine learning.