Brian is a National Geographic Explorer, ecologist, and educator with a deep commitment to ridge-to-reef conservation. He leads aquatic conservation projects across the Pacific and Caribbean, integrating local knowledge to drive impactful fisheries, river, and coral reef research in Hawaii, Cambodia, Micronesia, Fiji, Barbados, South Africa, and New Zealand. As an expert with National Geographic Expeditions and Putney Student Travel, he shares his expertise in Belize, the Galápagos, Channel Islands, and Columbia River. Brian earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2023, where he used microchip technology to track endangered salmon migrations. He is a grantee of the United Nations Environment Programme, a California Sea Grant Fellow, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, and a Fulbright Scholar. As a lecturer at San Francisco State University, he was dedicated to helping students turn their conservation ambitions into action.