Marlene Brito-Millan

Marlene Brito-Millan is a PhD candidate at Scripps Institution of Oceanography/UC San Diego, where she previously obtained her M.S. in Marine Biology.  Her dissertation focuses on “Linking Spatio-temporal Coral Reef Dynamics to Coastal Indigenous Societies.”  She is an NSF, Ford Foundation and UC San Diego President’s Dissertation Year Fellow, as well as a Mestiza mother-of-two.

• Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, Ph.D. in Oceanography, Spring 2017  
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, M.S. in Marine Biology, 2014
• Northeastern Illinois University, B.S. in Biology  

• Co-Instructor, “The Science and Critical Analysis of Environmental Justice” - UC San Diego,  2016-2017
• Teaching Assistant, “Life in the Oceans” – UC San Diego, 2015
• Guest Lecturer on Coral Reef Systems, “Life in the Oceans” – UC San Diego, 2015