Speakers
Laura Windecker
Laura Windecker is a Program Officer with the Environmental Protection and Stewardship Board at the Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Since joining the Academies in 2016, she has worked on all aspects of grants management for the Gulf Research Program, including developing funding opportunities and managing the program’s environmental grants portfolio. She is currently working on the consensus study on Long-Term Environmental Trends in the Gulf of Mexico. Prior to joining the National Academies, she was a NOAA John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellow working as Advisor to the Director of the U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System, a federal interagency committee, where she served as project manager of a Report to Congress. Laura has a Ph.D. in marine science from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where her research focused on marine phytoplankton and their role in global carbon dynamics. Laura also has an M.S. in oceanography from the Graduate School ofOceanography at the University of Rhode Island, and an A.B. in physics and marine science from Bowdoin College.