Whitney Goodell is a marine ecologist committed to pushing the needle of ocean health in a positive direction. As a systems thinker, her interests are in seascape ecology, geospatial patterns, fisheries ecology, spatial management, and the interactions between the ocean and humanity (to name a few). With Pristine Seas, she leads the deep sea component of the team’s research, using deep sea camera systems to explore life at the mysterious bottom of the ocean and better understand biological distribution patterns of the deep. Goodell holds a Master’s degree in Marine Biology from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where her research contributed to the development and establishment of local-scale, community-based fishery management efforts. She has also conducted near-shore fisheries research in Brazil as a Fulbright Fellow, and later was a National Geographic Fellow with the NG Exploration Technology Lab, where she began exploring the deep sea with baited cameras. With an appreciation of multimodal approaches to ecosystem conservation, from local to global scale, Goodell explores ways to better understand and comprehensively protect Earth’s ocean ecosystems.