Executive Team
The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is a global environmental nonprofit working to create a world where people and nature can thrive. TNC is the largest oyster restoration organization, with projects spanning every coastal state of the continental U.S. and four continents. For the last quarter-century, TNC has led large-scale oyster restoration projects, grown and advanced the community, while supporting wide-ranging scientific efforts.
California State Coast Conservancy
The State Coastal Conservancy (SCC) is a State agency established in 1976 to protect and restore coastal resources. SCC has been at the forefront of Olympia oyster restoration and living shoreline projects in San Francisco Bay for more than a decade. We are currently engaged with the Regionally Advancing Living Shorelines Project. This project aims to plan and permit 10 new living shoreline climate adaptation projects in the Bay to accelerate the adoption of nature-based restoration approaches.
San Francisco Estuary Partnership
The San Francisco Estuary Partnership (Estuary Partnership) is part of the National Estuary Program, a non-regulatory program of the EPA created through the Clean Water Act. The Estuary Partnership leads the Estuary Blueprint to protect and restore the water quality and ecological integrity of the San Francisco Estuary. The Estuary Partnership takes a community-centered approach to improve water quality, increase the quantity of fresh water available to the area, improve habitat for wildlife, and build equitable climate resilience.
Estuary & Ocean Science Center
The Estuary & Ocean Science (EOS) Center, is the marine research and education facility of San Francisco State University. As the only marine science laboratory on the shores of San Francisco Bay since its launch 47 years ago, the EOS Center exerts an outsized impact on evidence based decision making for the State of California through cutting-edge science and placement of graduates into positions at regulatory and natural resources agencies. Scientists at the EOS Center, including the SF Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) and Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), have led the study of natural and restored populations of Olympia oysters in San Francisco Bay for more than 15 years.
Native Olympia Oyster Collective (NOOC)
The Native Olympia Oyster Collective (NOOC) is a community of practice including restoration practitioners, Tribal members, oyster growers, resource managers and scientists from Baja California to British Columbia. Through outreach, science, conservation, restoration and aquaculture, NOOC works to support a thriving network of Olympia oysters across the range of the species.
Hog Island Oyster Company
Hog Island Oyster Company began oyster farming in 1983 with the goal of raising high quality, sustainable shellfish in a beautiful location. Today, we raise all five edible oyster varieties found in the Northern Hemisphere and Manila clams, make hand-finished mineral sea salt, and harvest seaweed from our oyster equipment. It’s all part of our commitment to harvest and grow foods that are good for people, our local communities, and our coastal environment—and that taste great, too.
