Bruce has a MS in Ecology from University of California and an affinity for understanding complicated problems. After graduate school he worked for ADF&G as a Fish Biologist and then Habitat Biologist. While he also taught wildlife courses at the University of Alaska, the Exxon Valdez oil spill happened. Bruce was hired as the Chief of NOAA’s Office of Oil Spill Damage Assessment and Restoration and managed hundreds of research and restoration projects. He has been a well-published author of predator research while he led the Alaska Predator Ecosystem Experiment and the Alaska Shark Assessment Project. Some Books Bruce has written include; Alaska Predators, Their Ecology and Conservation; Bald Eagles in Alaska; and Great White Sharks of Alaska. Bruce was the director of the Conservation Science Institute and has served as Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association’s (APIA) Senior Scientist from 2005 to present. Bruce is managing several key energy projects including the False Pass tidal energy project and the Aleutian Islands geothermal district heating project. Bruce has been a state authority in harmful algal blooms research since 2005 and is responsible for groundbreaking discoveries and monitoring programs to protect people and better understand changing ecosystems. Bruce has been managing military site cleanup projects since 2005. Bruce represents the Native communities of the Aleutians as a member of the Amchitka Working Group tasked with monitoring impacts from underground nuclear testing. See

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