Vera Trainer
NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Bio
Dr. Vera Trainer is the Program Manager of the Marine Biotoxin group at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center. Current research activities include refinement of analytical methods for both marine toxin and toxigenic species detection, assessment of environmental conditions that influence toxic bloom development and understanding shellfish susceptibility to toxins in their environment. She is the co-PI on a regional Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms (ECOHAB) research project that is studying the dynamics of Pseudo-nitzschia blooms off the WA coast. Trainer is the lead investigator of the Olympic Region Harmful Algal Bloom (ORHAB) project, a regional monitoring effort involving federal, state and local agencies, coastal tribes, and academic institutions. Dr. Trainer received her B.S. in Biology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and both her M.S. in Biological Oceanography, and Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Miami, with postgraduate studies in the Pharmacology Department at the University of Washington.