Meghan Shea is a PhD Candidate in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment & Resources at Stanford University, where she studies applications and consequences of the growing use of environmental DNA for marine biodiversity monitoring. She draws on natural science and social science approaches to both study eDNA as well as its context, and she is especially dedicated to ensuring eDNA tools are accessible to the public. When she’s not conducting qualitative interviews or collecting eDNA samples in the intertidal, you can find her recreationally tide pooling, experimenting with fun vegetarian recipes, and playing steel pan.

Zander Opperman is an undergraduate at Stanford University studying biology with a concentration in ecology and evolution. He has been a part of research projects ranging from the social impacts of bison in Yellowstone gateway communities to the foraging adaptivity of harvester ants in the southwest U.S. and is passionate about helping create resilient ecosystems that benefit people and nature alike. Outside academics, he will likely be out on the trails training for the Stanford Triathlon Team or skiing his home mountains in southwest Montana.

Morrison Mast (Stanford ‘21 MBA+MS) is a biodiversity conservationist specializing in innovative approaches to valuing and investing in natural capital. Morrison’s involvement with eDNA and community science stems from an interest in creating more rigorous and scalable approaches to quantifying biodiversity at a time when nature-related risk is becoming increasingly relevant to companies and their investors, Morrison is now Head of New Geographies at The Natural Capital Exchange, a Series-B company whose mission is to democratize access to nature based carbon markets.

Karina Li is an undergraduate student studying Computer Science (Human-Computer Interaction) at Stanford University. She is passionate about solving consumer-facing problems and producing creative solutions through user-centered design and code. At Stanford, Karina is currently working at Stanford's HCI Lab with the Interaction Design Group (IxD) building ReactGenie, a programming framework for combining UI with multimodal features. In her free time, she enjoys dancing with her friends, crocheting, and doing nail art. 

Tanvi Dutta Gupta is studying biology, and science communication at Stanford University. She comes from India and grew up across Singapore, Hong Kong, and London. At Stanford, she serves as a student co-lead of the Environmental Justice Working Group, where she gets super excited about environmental storytelling and its power to shape radically just futures. Her writing has been previously published in Current Conservation, Anthroposphere, and KneeDeep Times. Otherwise, she enjoys inventing new savory scone recipes, getting distracted by birds, and going on accidentally long runs.

Kelly Dunn is a graduate student studying Earth Systems with a focus on human-environmental systems, environmental justice, and community health. She is also a freelance scientific illustrator and regularly collaborates with academics to co-design figures, book covers, and educational animation videos. Her previous clientele have included Stanford’s Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment & Resources, UCSB’s Bren of Environmental Science & Management, Tidelines Institute, and X, the moonshot factory. When she’s not doing this work, you can find her soaking up the sun, joining local work days, or going for a sunrise hike.