About
Steve currently serves as the Managing Director for the WWF-US Arctic Program housed in Anchorage, Alaska. The program focuses on work in the Bering Strait, Bristol Bay, and the Central Arctic Ocean. The vision for the program is healthy Arctic ecosystems that support the cultural, social, and economic needs of the people living there and protect the diversity of Arctic life.
Steve has worked all over Alaska from Southeast to the western Aleutians, the Pribilof Islands, and North Slope villages. He received a Bachelor’s degree in biology from Whitman College and a Master’s of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences from Texas A&M University. Most recently, he served as an analyst for the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, and as the Arctic Marine Program Director for The Nature Conservancy in Alaska.
Steve has traveled around the world but always came back to Alaska, living in Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow). He has been swimming in every ocean of the world, including north of the Arctic Circle, and south of the Antarctic Circle. He also enjoys hiking, cycling, hunting, and fishing, and anything that gets him out into Alaska’s wilderness.