Tim Carruthers, Ph.D. has a strong U.S. and international reputation gained from more than 25 years working in coastal ecosystems, focusing on human impacts and management support. He has studied estuaries, coasts, coral reefs, lagoons, and river deltas in both tropical and temperate regions. He has applied this knowledge to coastal adaptation planning, marine management policy, as well as nature-based restoration from the scale of a single village up to whole ecosystems.

Tim has worked extensively with state and federal agencies, not only in the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand, but also France and many Pacific Island Countries. He has assisted dozens of U.S. National Park Service sites to assess and synthesize the condition of their natural resources. He has also facilitated consensus amongst multiple agencies to prioritizing monitoring and adaptive management priorities in the northern Gulf of Mexico to provide specific guidance to maximize ecosystem benefits of restoration activities.

Currently, Tim is leading the Coastal Ecology Department in projects supporting integration of physical and ecosystem models, filing data gaps to improve validation of carbon offsets from tidal wetlands, expanding approaches for assessing nekton and benthic invertebrate benefits from ecosystem restoration, adaptive management to support restoration, and large-scale data management and analysis across the northern Gulf of Mexico.