Korie Schaeffer

Korie is the Acting Deputy Regional Administrator for NOAA Fisheries West Coast Region. She has served as Assistant Regional Administrator for Operations, Management and Informations for the last few years. Prior to that she was the Division Manager and Operations & Policy Branch Chief in the California Coastal Office. As part of her 20+ year tenure with NOAA Fisheries, Korie has worked on several marine and estuary habitat conservation programs nationally and along our West Coast, including national habitat policy for the Office of Habitat Conservation; steelhead conservation in Southern California; and rockfish ecology at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center. Korie works in our Santa Rosa, California office.