Santa Monica Baykeeper Staff Members
The following people are the current staff members of the Santa Monica Baykeeper. These people, along with the countless volunteers help make the Santa Monica Baykeeper such a success.
Tom Ford
Baykeeper
Following four years of involvement with the Santa Monica Baykeeper as a volunteer diver and Beachkeeper volunteer, Tom became the Director of the Kelp Restoration and Monitoring Project in July 2002. Tom’s passion for the ocean and its inhabitants was hard won. Growing up in a farming community in Pennsylvania Tom first saw the ocean in high school.
During his undergraduate studies at the University of Rhode Island Tom took advantage of...Learn More
Carlos Carreon
Beachkeeper Program Coordinator
Carlos has surfed some of the most beautiful beaches in the world, right here in Southern California. His visits to his parents’ native Philippines as a child instilled a strong attachment to the ocean. A life long Angeleno, he began to notice the constant degradation of our beaches and coastal waters. Well, one day he had enough and decided he needed to do something about it. Mother Ocean was calling. He started by doing some volunteer work with...Learn More
Brian Meux
Kelp Project Coordinator
Brian began working with and volunteering for the Baykeeper in 2005. Part of his master’s thesis is an analysis of the Santa Monica Baykeeper Kelp Restoration and Monitoring Project. Brian became the Kelp Project Coordinator in June 2007.
Brian’s bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley is in integrative biology. His studies had an emphasis in marine ecology and he also played for Cal Rugby. Brian’s research was filled with descriptions of...Learn More
Mark Abramson
Director of Watershed Program
Mark Abramson has worked on water quality monitoring, stream habitat mapping, biological monitoring, and stream restoration for more than 10 years in watersheds that drain to the Santa Monica Bay. Mark has done substantial work on steelhead trout issues in the Santa Monica Mountains including the removal of three dams preventing the endangered steelhead trout from completing their migration. Additionally, he has conducted numerous invasive vegetation...Learn More
Tatiana Gaur
Staff Attorney
Tatiana Koleva Gaur was born and raised in Bulgaria where she first became interested in water quality issues while working as the project coordinator of Ecoglasnost-Stara Zagora, one of the first environmental organizations in Bulgaria. There Tatiana led a water quality expedition, comprised of high-school students and university professors, to examine the condition of the river providing drinking water to the town of Stara Zagora. The results of...Learn More
