Kayli Paterson

Kayli supports the Clean Water team's contaminants of concern monitoring efforts. She is passionate about the water-related health and safety of the communities and wildlife that call the Bay Area home. Prior to SFEI, she earned her Master of Environmental and Sustainability Studies and Master of Public Administration from the College of Charleston. The research for her thesis project examined how effective modern stormwater grey infrastructure was at capturing microplastics and tire particles of varying densities from being released into adjacent salt marshes. Before earning her master's degree, she was enlisted as an electrical technician in the U.S. Coast Guard. She earned her bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Oregon State University.