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The SWAT Team

The name SWAT is not an acronym, but a nickname that came along with the idea that a group of researchers was needed to travel along the coast quickly surveying as many sites within a minus tide series as possible. Additional meaning has since been derived for the word.

SWAT:

    Stinking, Wrinkled And Tough,
    Soaking Wet And Tired
    SeaWeed Action Team

To contact the SWAT Team:

Long Marine Laboratory
100 Shaffer Rd.
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Office: 831.459.1449
Fax: 831.459.3383
SWAT Team email

Principal Investigator

Pete Raimondi

Pete Raimondi
More about Pete

Assistant Investigators

Carol Blanchette Dave Lohse
Carol Blanchette Dave Lohse
More about Carol More about Dave

SWAT Team Members

Rani Gaddam

Rani Gaddam

SWAT Team 2005-present
email

Educational Background
B.A. (Marine Biology) University of California-Santa Cruz, 1997







Kristen Kusic

Kristen Kusic

SWAT Team 2001-present
email

Educational Background
B.A. (Biology/Marine Biology) University of California-Santa Cruz, 1997
M.S. (Marine Biology)University of California Santa Cruz, In Progress




Haven Livingston

Haven Livingston

SWAT Team 2002-present
email

Educational Background
B.A. (Environmental Studies) University of California-Santa Cruz, 1997
M.S. (Water Resources Management), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001



Kyle Walters

Kyle Walters

SWAT Team 2006-present
email

Educational Background
B.S. (Biology) Virginia Commonwealth University 1998
M.S. (Marine Biology), University of North Carolina, Wilmington 2003






SWAT Team and friends in Olympic National Park

Past SWAT Team Members

Alison Kendall SWAT Team 2001-2004
email
Currently: Freelance artist and scientific illustrator.
View her artwork at LEFT HAND LIGHT

Caroline Engel SWAT Team 2003-2004
email
Currently: Preparing to apply to Allopathic and Osteopathic medical schools and working as a Biological Monitor and Environmental Inspectory for Garcia and Associates.

Erin Maloney SWAT Team 2000-2002
email
Currently: Project Lead for the marine Introduced Species Study at Moss Landing Marine/Pollution Studies Laboratory. Surveying California's outer coast, bays and harbors for non-indigenous aquatic species.

Claire Palazzo SWAT Team 2005

Megan Williams SWAT Team 2001-2003
email
Currently: Working as a science writer in Northern California.

SWAT Team in Alaska

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