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- Country: United States of America
Resumé
Kirsten Gilardi is a wildlife veterinarian, Co-Director of the Karen C. Drayer Wildlife Health Center (WHC) and a Health Sciences Clinical Professor of Wildlife Health in the Department of Medicine & Epidemiology at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. She directs the California Lost Fishing Gear Recovery Project, a program she launched in 2006 that works in close collaboration with commercial fishermen to remove more than 140 tons of lost, abandoned and discarded fishing gear and other marine debris from California’s coastal ocean to date. Kirsten earned her DVM at UC Davis in 1993 and joined the staff of the WHC in 1998. She established the WHC’s SeaDoc Society in 2000, and in 2001 she became board-certified by the American College of Zoological Medicine. She is a past President of the American Association of Wildlife Veterinarians. In addition to her work with GESAMP, Gilardi chairs the Build Evidence Working Group of the Global Ghost Gear Initiative, and is a member of the West Coast Marine Debris Alliance.
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