Skylar B.

About Skylar B.

In August 2025, I left NOAA and joining University of Alaska Southeast (UAS) to teach for the Fall Semester and Spring semesters. It is currently unknown if I will be working for UAS beyond May 2026. In September 2022, I joined the NOAA Fisheries Division of Habitat as a Resource Management Specialist in Juneau, Alaska. With my collaborator Dr. Gabi Serrato Marks, we are under contract with Columbia University Press for an anthology of stories from scientists with disabilities and medical conditions,\"Uncharted: How scientists navigate their own health, research, and experiences of bias.\" This book will be released Summer 2023! You can preorder here: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/uncharted/97••••••••30To stay up to date with the project, sign up for our newsletter here: https://uncharted.substack.com/I finished my last day at Roger Williams University August 19, 2022. I will have a volunteer researcher status there to help close out the grants I helped write and start.In 2021, I completed a 3-month Fulbright Scholar fellowship in Iceland at the Marine and Freshwater Research Institute: completed 18 months as an NRC postdoc fellow at the NOAA NEFSC Milford Lab. I will continue collaborating with my colleagues at the Milford lab on the research we conducted together on the impact of oysters on water quality. I was a fellow in the NOAA Sea Grant Knauss Policy Fellowship program, based in the Legislative Branch. Prior to DC, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Yund Lab at the Downeast Institute, based out of the University of Maine\'s marine station, the Darling Marine Center in beautiful Walpole, Maine. Prior to that, I researched sea scallop reproduction and population dynamics as a Ph.D. student at the Darling Marine Center. My interests related to my research are primarily (but not limited to) reproductive ecology and how reproduction affects larger processes like demography, ecosystem functioning, evolution and conservation. However, I never can resist a good science question.I am broadly interested in reproductive ecology, larval biology, biological interactions with physical environments, marine protected resources and conservation, population connectivity and spatial modeling.I have participated in a number of science communication activities (see my website for an updated list: https://skylarbayer.wordpress.com/storytelling/). I have worked for The Story Collider on and off as a producer since 2014.

Experience

1. Producer

   The Story Collider

   Mar 2014 — Present · ME, US

   Produced several shows, predominantly in Maine. Skills for this job include recruiting tellers, coaching, hosting, organizing, and telling.

Education

• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

  M.Sc., Biological Oceanography

  2009 — 2011

• Brown University

  B.Sc., Marine Biology

  2005 — 2008

• University of Maine

  Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography

  2011 — 2017