Vanessa Tuttle

Background

Vanessa Tuttle graduated from the Florida Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Marine Biology. She worked as a NOAA Fisheries Observer in Alaska, off the West Coast in the hake fishery, and the Gulf of Mexico. After that, she worked for Auburn University as a research assistant studying red snapper. Vanessa joined the FRAM Division in Seattle in 2002.

Current Research

Vanessa oversees the At-sea Hake Observer Program. She focuses on data management, ensuring data quality, industry outreach, sampling protocols, biological data collection and special research data collections such as seabirds, salmon and rockfish genetics. As time allows, she still goes out to sea on NWFSC surveys to keep her fish identification skills sharp.