Trina Wellman

Trina is an environmental economist specializing in marine and coastal management and decision making. She has a Master in Marine Affairs and PhD in Natural Resource Economics from the University of Washington. Formerly from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the National Ocean and Atmospheric Institution, and Battelle Memorial Institute, Trina is currently working as a private consultant working in economic and ecosystem service valuation related to shellfish aquaculture around the US and ecosystem recovery efforts in the Salish Sea and Downeast Maine. She serves on the Puget Sound Partnership Science Panel, the Governer’s Southern Resident Killer Whale Recovery Task Force, the SeaDoc Society Science Advisory Board, and formerly as Board President of Salish Sea Expeditions. Trina spends part of her year in Sorrento, Maine where she serves on the Board of Directors of the Schoodic Institute in Winter Harbor, Maine and as the Commodore of the Sorrento Yacht Club.