Dr. Phyllis Stabeno is a physical oceanographer at the
NOAA,
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle, Washington. Together with Dr. Jeff Napp, she is co-leader of NOAA's
Ecosystems and Fisheries Oceanography Coordinated Investigations (EcoFOCI).
For the past 25 years, she has worked on physical oceanographic, climate and ecosystem projects in the Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands and more recently Chukchi Sea. Recently she has focused on climate change impact on the subarctic seas around Alaska. She is the lead investigator in maintaining the biophysical mooring array in the Bering Sea. She is a Principle Investigator for the North Pacific Research Board sponsored Bering Sea Integrated Ecosystem Research Plan (BSIERP) project and NSF Bering Ecosystem Study (BEST) and has served on the Science Advisory Board for the BEST/BSIERP program since its inception.