Lauren Linsmayer is an ocean science and policy expert, bringing experience from Capitol Hill, a coastal policy think tank, and academia. With a record of working across the aisle and inclusively with a diverse range of stakeholders, she believes in taking an empathetic and human-centered approach to arriving at science-informed policy solutions. She is currently working on projects exploring marine carbon dioxide removal, offshore wind, and fisheries insurance in California and the West Coast.
Prior to joining the OST team in April 2023, Lauren was an independent ocean policy consultant and the Policy Lead at Urban Ocean Lab. She previously served as a Professional Staff Member on the Science, Space, and Technology Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, where she shepherded the passage of bipartisan legislation to support research and solutions on ocean acidification and harmful algal blooms, as well as ocean research priorities in the Inflation Reduction Act. She was a 2018 Knauss Fellow with the Senate Commerce Committee.
Lauren received her Ph.D. in marine biology and M.S. in oceanography from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and an M.S. and B.S. in earth systems from Stanford University. She has published peer-reviewed research on coral physiology. She is based out of the Bay Area.
