Will Satterthwaite was a High Schools Group member who participated in myriad SG and “big BAA” activities over the years, from protesting Mitsuibishi’s and Maxxam’s logging practices to habitat restoration at numerous sites around the Bay Area and coast (San Francisquito Creek, Arastradero Preserve, Montara Mountain, etc.).

Will also participated in the Schools Group’s EV conversion of a VW Rabbit along with Neal Macneale, Brandon Neubauer, and Dave Des Marais.

He also volunteered at Earth Day and other events. He was a student intern for two summers, helping out in the office, and updating BAA’s websites, and he was Project Leader for the Habitat Restoration Project, circa 1997.

Post BAA

Will received his BA from UC Berkeley and PhD from UC Santa Cruz and works as a Research Ecologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center, and as an Associate Researcher at UC Santa Cruz. He is widely published in marine biology with particular focus on Pacific salmon, particularly Chinook salmon.

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