Assistant Professor, School of Ocean Futures,
Arizona State University

Jesse Senko is PI of the Senko Lab and an Assistant Professor in the Schools of Ocean and Conservation Futures at Arizona State University. His research transcends disciplines by integrating natural and social science with innovation and governance to ensure a future for threatened wildlife as well as coastal fisheries and the people who depend on them. Senko’s work has been published in leading biology, conservation, fisheries, social science, and policy journals as well as featured in CNN, Reuters, The New York Times, National Geographic, Smithsonian Magazine, The Economist, NPR, The Guardian, Bloomberg, Forbes, and other major outlets. A winner of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Theodore Roosevelt Genius Prize and a member of the IUCN Marine Turtle Specialist Group, he holds a BS in Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences from the University of Connecticut, a MS in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation from the University of Florida, and a PhD in Biology from Arizona State University.