Phoebe
Racine
SEAFOOD SYSTEMS SCIENTIST
AboutOkii, 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 also work to increase Indigenous right relations in conservation.
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 finished my PhD at UCSB’s Bren School in late 2023, where I was trained 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’m running after my McNab puppy and I like to be outside and work with my hands. I appreciate a good pun and like to make jokes.
A note, some of this site is under construction.
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.
The resources page has two resources for PhD students. Photos were taken by me unless otherwise stated.