Chris Oakes

Christopher has been the General Manager of Synbiobeta and the COO of Sustainable Ocean Alliance. He is a marine scientist and biotechnologist with an academic background in both marine biology and immunology. As a researcher he focused on life history studies of nearshore marine fishes, marine environmental monitoring, and time series analysis and spatial modeling. His graduate thesis evaluated net cage aquaculture’s value as a fish attracting device off Catalina Island, and his side projects included morphological studies of a pharmaceutically valuable sea snail. He loves kitesurfing, mountain biking, and has a passion for capturing the diversity of the underwater world through photography.