Katie Morrice

Katie Morrice is the Environmental and Permitting Lead for Deep Blue Pacific Wind. Born and raised in Oregon, and with deep family ties to the area, she is excited to help the Pacific Northwest advance renewable energy goals with an eye towards engaging coastal communities and understanding impacts to the environment, cultural resources, and existing ocean uses. She has more than a decade of experience working across environmental science and policy, coastal oceanography, fisheries, and marine renewable energy and has worked for both state and federal agencies. Her experience includes working onboard commercial fishing vessels in the Bering Sea as a fisheries observer, supporting adaptive management programs focused on water supply reliability and ecosystem health in the Sacramento San-Joaquin Delta, and modelling coastal hydrodynamics and juvenile salmon migration in the Columbia River estuary.

Immediately prior to joining Deep Blue Pacific Wind, Katie worked as a marine scientist for the Water Power Technologies Office at the U.S. Department of Energy. She supported marine renewable energy R&D for non-grid scale blue economy applications and energy resilience for remote coastal communities. In addition, she advanced WPTO’s engagement with Federal ocean policy groups, energy justice activities within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, and environmental R&D across the marine energy and hydropower portfolios. Katie has a Ph.D. in environmental science and engineering from Oregon Health & Science University, a M.S. in marine science from Moss Landing Marine Labs, and a B.A. in biology from Smith College.