Brian’s passion for protecting our planet’s natural wonders stems from his enthusiasm for outdoor adventures. As a National Geographic Explorer and ecologist, he leads coastal conservation projects across the Pacific. As a PhD candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, he and his team track endangered California coho salmon migrations with microchips. Brian’s work is featured in the National Geographic Resource Library. Leveraging local knowledge, he has spearheaded fisheries, river, and reef research projects in Cambodia, Micronesia, Fiji, Barbados, and New Zealand. Brian co-led National Geographic Expeditions in Belize and Alaska, and he served as an expert in the Galápagos for high school student programs. Brian is a United Nations Environment Programme grantee, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, and Fulbright Scholar. As a lecturer at San Francisco State University and in his anticipated lifelong teaching roles, Brian enjoys supporting others’ conservation ideas to become realities.