Nicole Hack

Nicole Hack will earn a master’s degree in biological sciences from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, in March 2018. Her studies focused the potential use of hormones as biomarkers for the health of rockfish.

As a fellow, Hack worked on SWAMP's statewide monitoring programs to ensure pollution and toxicants have not reached unhealthy levels in bodies of water or accumulated in consumed fish species. She also validated the efficacy of a new spatial mapping tool for monitoring freshwater harmful algal blooms via satellite.