A Southern California native, Danielle received a B.S. in Environmental Science from UCLA, and a GIS certificate from UC San Diego. In her early career, she spent several years working in fisheries conservation across the Santa Monica Mountains focused on steelhead trout conservation and assessing riparian habitat quality. She left California for the US Virgin Islands to work with the National Park Service's sea turtle conservation program in St. Croix, then transitioned to a GIS Analyst role as a contractor for NMFS Southeast Fisheries Science Center. During this time, she also obtained her Master of Professional Science in Fisheries Management and Conservation from the University of Miami. Her master's thesis focused on identifying spatial and temporal hotspots of loggerhead bycatch in the western Atlantic commercial longline fishery.

 

Most recently, Danielle spent several years in eastern North Carolina working as a Lab Manager/GIS Analyst with Dr. Andy Read's lab, which focuses on behavioral and spatial ecology of cetaceans. She utilizes GIS and remote sensing to investigate habitat use and spatial dynamics of marine species, with a special interest in megafauna like sea turtles and cetaceans, and is excited to put those skills to use with CMSF.

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Danielle is based in Orange County with her partner, Juan, and their two cats, Cinnabon and Biscuit. In her free time she enjoys going on camping trips, trying out new restaurants, and meeting up with her book club where discussions are about the book roughly 15% of the time.