Staff Bio
Lara Martin, Monitoring Technician
laram"at"sfsu.edu
415-338-3717
Lara Martin is one of our new technicians for the System-wide Monitoring Program. She received a BA in Biology from Earlham College in Indiana and was headed to veterinary school. Since moving to California in 1995, she has been lured away from this idea by the ocean and the rich mud of the estuary. She has since worked as a research assistant for Richardson Bay Audubon, as an educator and aquarist for a local aquarium, and as a surveyor for Pacific States Marine Fisheries. Her research interests include sustainable fisheries, spatial competition within the intertidal zone, and the effects of eelgrass restoration on the sessile estuarine community.