About me
Dr. Christopher Kelley retired from the University of Hawaii in 2018 after serving 18 years as the program biologist for the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL) and as graduate research faculty for the Oceanography Department at the University of Hawaii. His responsibilities included leading multiple deep water research cruises, conducting deep water fisheries projects, identifying deep water fish and invertebrates recorded during submersible and ROV operations, and helping to locate and find ship and plane wrecks in deep water. He moved from Hawaii to Port Townsend, Washington in 2019 and has since been engaged in several volunteer activities including serving on the Jefferson County Marine Resources Committee (MRC), making maps for the Port Townsend Marine Science Center, and maintaining wildlife cameras for the Jefferson Land Trust. Dr. Kelley still serves as an onshore scientist for marine research cruises in the Pacific and continues works on deep water glass sponge identification in his basement lab. He has spoken a couple of times on sonar and other techniques used to find shipwrecks in deep water and that will be the topic of his presentation this year.
