Ellen Willis-Norton

Bio

Ellen is a postdoc in emLab’s Ocean & Fisheries program. She is creating a coupled social-ecological model to predict the impacts of offshore wind development to California’s commercial fisheries, a project funded by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. Ellen is a global change biologist by training and received her PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of California Santa Cruz in 2022. Her work focused on projecting the impact of climate change on fished species and fisheries of the Northeastern Pacific Ocean. When she isn’t working, Ellen enjoys surfing and paddleboarding, taking her dog to the beach, and reading fiction.