About STC: Contact Us

Mailing address for the Gainesville Office:

Sea Turtle Conservancy
4581 NW 6th St, Suite A
Gainesville, FL 32609

Contact information for the Gainesville Office:

Phone: 352-373-6441
Fax: 352-375-2449
Email: stc@conserveturtles.org

Please note that all staff email addresses end in @conserveturtles.org

**No Solicitation Policy: Due to an influx of sales and marketing calls and emails, Sea Turtle Conservancy has implemented a No Solicitation Policy to avoid disruption of business operations and disturbance of staff. For purposes of the No Solicitation Policy, “Solicitation” shall include soliciting or seeking to obtain membership in or support for any outside organization, requesting contributions, peddling or otherwise selling or offering goods and services for sale or purchase, distributing advertising materials, or engaging in any other conduct relating to outside business interests or for profit or personal economic benefit. Solicitation performed through verbal, written, or electronic means, are covered by the No Solicitation Policy. We appreciate your cooperation.**

United States Based Staff

David Godfrey, Executive Director
Email: david@
David oversees all aspect of the organization’s programmatic, organizational and financial activities, and he is the point contact for inquiries from the media and potential donors and corporate partners. David has particular expertise in the areas of coastal management policy, threats to sea turtles, international sea turtle trade, oil spill response and the Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge.

Dr. Roldán Valverde, Scientific Director
Email: roldan@
Roldán is responsible for overseeing the scientific components of the Tortuguero and Bocas del Toro research and monitoring projects. Learn more about Roldan’s work.

Pat McCloskey, Controller
Email: pat@
Pat is responsible for the budgeting and financial reports of STC. She is also the personnel administrator and the co-administrator of the Sea Turtle License Plate Grants Program.

Erin Boudreau, Senior Accountant
Email: erin@
Erin assists the Controller with budgeting and financial reports. She also administers the financial reports for the beachfront lighting grants and assists with the Sea Turtle License Plate Grants Program reports.

Lexie Beach, Communications Coordinator
Email: lexie@
Lexie is responsible for managing STC’s social media outreach and cause-related marketing activities. She oversees production of organizational publications, including STC’s monthly E-newsletter and our quarterly membership newsletter, The Velador. Lexie also oversees marketing activities on behalf of Florida’s “Helping Sea Turtles Survive” specialty license plate.

Kim Aslan, Office Manager
Email: kim@
Kim is responsible for making sure STC’s main office runs smoothly and efficiently by routing correspondence, collecting information, maintaining office supplies and coordinating staff schedules and travel. She is also responsible for selecting merchandise and managing STC’s online store.

Evan Cooper, Membership Coordinator
Email: evan@
Evan is responsible for STC’s Membership activities, including managing our database and adopt-a-turtle program. He is also responsible for general member correspondence, including special appeals and renewal requests. Evan is also a photographer/videographer for STCs various projects.

Dr. Daniel R. Evans, Research Biologist and Sea Turtle Grants Program Administrator
Email: drevans@
Dan is responsible for STC’s educational activities, public presentations, organizing volunteers to help with STC’s sea turtle monitoring research programs and is the principal investigator on STC’s sea turtle tracking research program. Dan is also the administrator of the Florida Sea Turtle Grants Program.

Rick Herren, Biologist and Project Manager
Email: rick@
Rick directs STC’s In-water Research Program and the Florida Predation Management Project. His background includes nesting biology, sea turtle friendly lighting, impact minimization, demographics, spatial analysis, population models, foraging ecology and the use of satellite tracking devices.

Rachel Tighe, Lighting Project Manager
Email: rachel@
Rachel is a certified Lighting Specialist I through National Association of Innovative Lighting Distributors. She manages STC’s project to mitigate beachfront lighting issues in Florida. Rachel is involved in all aspects of the lighting project including data collection, lighting design, contract management, code enforcement workshops, dune plantings, and interfacing with lighting professionals.

Emily Wooley, Senior Lighting Project Specialist
Email: emily@
Emily is involved in STC’s project to mitigate beachfront lighting issues in Florida. She is responsible for coordinating Lighting Code Enforcement Workshops throughout the state of Florida.

Casie Hain, Lighting Project Specialist
Email: casie@
Casie is involved in STC’s project to mitigate beachfront lighting issues in Florida. She coordinates the traveling lighting displays designed to educate the public about sea turtle friendly lighting and is responsible for coordinating the Real Estate Workshops throughout the state of Florida.

Julia White, Lighting Project Specialist
Email: julia@
Julia is involved in STC’s project to mitigate beachfront lighting issues in Florida.

Madeleine Khoury, Lighting Project Specialist
Email: madeleine@
Madeleine is involved in STC’s project to mitigate beachfront lighting issues in Florida.

Stacey Gallagher, Development and Policy Coordinator
Email: stacey@
Stacey works with STC’s Executive Director on program fundraising; is involved with STC’s project to mitigate beachfront lighting issues in Florida; and advocates on behalf of sea turtles and their habitats at the local, state, and federal level.

Sarah Rhodes-Ondi, Barrier Island Ecosystem Center Community Stewardship Coordinator
Email: sarah@
Sarah is responsible for STC’s educational, community outreach, and volunteer activities at the Barrier Island Ecosystem Center in southern Brevard County, Fla.

Margaret Lilyestrom, Research Assistant
Email: margaret@
Margaret assists with STC’s in-water research projects, including the Bermuda Turtle Project and the Florida In-water Research Program.

Costa Rica Based Staff

Roxana Silman, Costa Rica Director
Email: roxana@
Roxana supervises administration for San José office, Tortuguero operations and Chiriquí project. Coordinates national policies and collaborative actions with government agencies, NGOs and tourism businesses.

Maria Laura Castro, San José Office Assistant
Email: maria@
Maria Laura is responsible for the efficient running of STC’s regional office in San Jose, providing vital logistical support to the Costa Rica and Panama field programs. She helps with all administrative tasks, purchases supplies and materials, coordinates deliveries and processes documentation for volunteers that is required by the Ministry of Environment and Energy in Costa Rica.

Georgina Zamora Environmental Coordinator and Educator
Email: georgina@
Georgina is in charge of overseeing the Education and Outreach Program in Tortuguero, as well as working as a graphic designer for their Visitors Center.

Estela Figueroa Lara, Field Coordinator
Email: coordinator@ or estela@
The Field Coordinator is responsible for overseeing the leatherback and green sea turtle field seasons in Tortuguero. Also coordinates the Research Assistants and Eco-Volunteers.

Ana Moncada Rosas, Assistant Field Coordinator

Email: ana@
The Assistant Field Coordinator is responsible for assisting with the leatherback and green sea turtle field seasons in Tortuguero, and working with the Research Assistants and Eco-Volunteers.

Rosibel Alfaro, John H. Phipps Biological Field Station Manager
Email: manager@ or rosibel@
The Station Manager is responsible for coordinating logistics at the STC station. This includes some aspects of staff activities in Tortuguero, maintaining the station, working with the Field Coordinator, and coordinating logistics related to Eco-Volunteers.

Guillermo Alfonso Herrera Quechol, Visitor’s Center Coordinator
Email: vc.coordinator@
The Visitor’s Center Coordinator is responsible for overseeing STC’s Visitor Center and Museum activities.

Gisel Barroso, Tortuguero Environmental Education and Outreach Coordinator
Email: outreach@
Responsible for overseeing STC’s Tortuguero Environmental Education and Outreach activities.

Panama Based Staff

Cristina Ordoñez, Panama Research Coordinator
Email: cristinao@
Cristina is responsible for coordinating the field programs at Chiriquí Beach and Bastimentos Island National Marine Park in the Bocas del Toro region, Panama.

Raúl García Varela, Panama Research Coordinator
Email: raul@
Raúl is responsible for coordinating the field programs at Soropta and Drago Beaches in the Bocas del Toro region, Panama.