Eric Mielbrecht, an EcoAdapt founder, specializes in assessing anthropogenic stresses and the risks they pose to a variety of natural resources. He is particularly interested in bridging the gap between research and resource management decision-making processes and focuses on synthesizing research findings for stakeholders. Eric now also wears the operations director hat at EcoAdapt and helps with ‘the work that needs to get done to get the work done.’ However, he is occasionally let out of the office and plays a key role in the creation and expansion of CAKE and can even be found facilitating workshops and doing other helpful things. Recent endeavors include investigating relationships between water quality and resilience to climate change stressors in marine systems for resource users and managers in Florida under a NOAA SARP grant, and the report, Unnatural Disaster: Global Warming and Our National Parks, co-authored with Jennie Hoffman for the National Parks Conservation Association. Additional institutions Eric has worked with include Emerald Coast Environmental Consulting, U.S. EPA Global Change Research Program, World Wildlife Fund, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the University of California, and S. R. Hansen & Associates. Eric earned a B.A. in biology and a M.S. in Marine Sciences from the University of California Santa Cruz. He now strives to do less operations stuff and more research but he finds it a small price to pay to be able to work with wonderful staff doing great things.