Mary Kate Brown

Mary Kate’s background consists of extensive experience working with a range of Federal, State, and private entities across the Northern Gulf of America to help implement coastal restoration projects and to leverage additional watershed activities to promote estuarine health and enhance water quality across the landscape.  Through her 20 years of projects and collaboration efforts, she has curated strong and healthy partnerships among municipalities, academia, firms, and community organizations to promote innovative strategies using applied research to support successful restoration efforts, as well as long-term monitoring to inform adaptive management. The most recent endeavour includes the award-winning Lightning Point Restoration Project in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, involving more than 20 diverse partners to implement one of the largest coastal restoration projects along the Gulf of America.