Colby Davidson - Board Member

Originally hailing from the Willamette Valley of Oregon, Colby brings almost two decades of experience as a naturalist educator and field research scientist.

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Colby is our expert in community-based wildlife conservation, human-wildlife conflict mitigation strategies, and marine-intertidal ecology and restoration.

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Colby’s background in climatology, geography, environmental sciences, and anthropology urges him to think about how social structures and policies of the past have created the current conservation issues we’re now facing. This global understanding, along with Colby’s natural communication skills, align perfectly with OceansWide’s mission of changing how people interact with their surroundings and help create spaces for wildlife and people to coexist.

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In his grad school studies at Miami University’s Project Dragonfly, Colby is currently tackling one of OceansWide’s major issues - rope and trap waste - by working to create a waste up-cycling program for what we recover from our ghost lobster trap removal program, Traps 2 Treasure.