Paul Olin, PhD
Aquaculture Specialist
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
La Jolla, CA

Dr. Paul Olin works as a Sea Grant Advisor in the University of California Sea Grant Extension Program based administratively at UC San Diego/Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Olin lives and works in Santa Rosa where he conducts applied research and extension programs in aquaculture with activities related to aquaculture policy as well as the culture of shellfish and emerging opportunities for offshore culture of finfish. Shellfish research includes evaluating field performance of hybrid and selected Pacific Oysters to increase production and enhance disease resistance. In Northern California he is engaged in monitoring recovery of endangered coho salmon in the Russian River as a partner in a broadly based multi-Agency partnership engaged in the Endangered Coho Salmon Captive Broodstock Recovery Program.

Dr. Olin is a member of the U.S. - Japan Natural Resources Panel on Aquaculture, the NOAA-Korea Joint Coordination Panel for Aquaculture Cooperation, and the California Aquaculture Development Committee. He is currently collaborating with the Department of Fish and Game and the Ocean Protection Council to review and edit a Programmatic Environmental Impact Report of Marine Aquaculture.

Prior to his work at the University of California he coordinated an international training program in shrimp aquaculture and was the Aquaculture Specialist for the University of Hawaii Sea Grant Program. He earned a B.S. in biology from the University of Miami, a M.S. in animal science at UC Davis, and a Ph.D. in zoology at the University of Hawaii.