Our Team
Mary Collins, MS
BIL/IRA Administrative Specialist
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Mary Collins is the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) & Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) Administrative Specialist in the National Sea Grant Office.
Previously, Mary was a Coastal Resilience Specialist for the National Sea Grant Office and a John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellow. Mary came into Sea Grant after serving as an International Conservation Associate at the Center for Large Landscape Conservation, where she coordinated advancement in science, policy, and practice of collaborative, ecosystem-based and climate-science informed conservation. Mary also has experience in private sector nature-based solutions consulting as a Conservation Coordinator with the Wildlife Habitat Council and in climate policy and diplomacy as a Climate Policy Intern at the Council on Foreign Relations. Each of Mary’s experiences is rooted in a social equity, marine biology, and climate science background gained as a Research Assistant at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
Mary holds a Master’s degree in Conservation Leadership from Colorado State University and a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science and Art from The University of Virginia. Mary is an artist and outdoors enthusiast, and in her free time can be found on a nearby trail or in a museum.
Email: mary.collins@noaa.gov
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NOAA Careers: Transition Manager
What do Knauss Fellows actually do? Well, it depends!
You may know NOAA for its science, but there are teams of people that help get the science in motion and
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Sea Grant Announces the 2024 Class of the John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Sea Grant College Program (Sea Grant) is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2024 class of the John A. Knauss Marine
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Cross-Country Fish Passage
When people talk about the Knauss Fellowship they always mention how Fellows have the opportunity to go to places they never imagined. But as a marine ecologist, I didn’t expect