Catherine Corbett  has served as the Chief Scientist for the Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership since 2008. She leads the Science Team and manages the habitat restoration, research and monitoring programs.  She led an effort to establish voluntary numeric habitat coverage targets for the lower Columbia River. She facilitates the Science Work Group and biennial Columbia River Estuary Conferences and coordinates monitoring and restoration activities with numerous partners in the lower Columbia River. Catherine had been the Senior Scientist for the Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program in southwest Florida for eight years where she led the development of published numeric water quality targets using an optical model, seagrass depth targets and seagrass light requirements and managed an interagency water quality monitoring network. Prior to that Catherine was a wildlife biologist in a national park in Morocco’s Middle Atlas Mountains. She has published multiple manuscripts on seagrass and water quality in southwest Florida. Catherine holds an M.A. in International Development and Natural Resource Management from Clark University, Massachusetts and a B.S. in Zoology and a Physical Geography Minor from Miami University, Ohio.