Poppy Brittingham

Poppy Brittingham is a Ph.D. candidate co-advised by the De Leo Lab and the Micheli Lab in Stanford University’s Ocean Department. Poppy is interested in supporting domestic seafood system resilience through understanding and addressing social, ecological, and economic shocks at various governance scales: locally in Monterey, at the state-level of California, and the federal level. Her work currently includes understanding the current state of commercial fishing in Monterey in collaboration with the Monterey Future of Blue Foods group, identifying vulnerabilities of state-level fisheries to shocks, and documenting impacts to the U.S. seafood system resulting from recent changes to the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA). The purpose of her work is to collaboratively develop policy-based solutions to build resilience in the domestic seafood system.

Poppy received a B.S. at Stanford in Earth Systems under the Human and Environmental Systems track and an M.S. at Stanford in Earth Systems in Marine Resource Management and Conservation. Prior to her Ph.D., Poppy worked as a marine science consultant for three years. She has worked closely with various organizations, including the Environmental Defense Fund, Conservation International, and the Monterey Bay Fisheries Trust. Topics of research included small-scale fisheries technology, fishermen succession planning, ocean remote sensing, the environmental impacts of offshore aquaculture, blue carbon, and seaweed carbon sequestration.