Dr. Kim Waddell

Kim Waddell is the Director for the Virgin Islands Established Program for Stimulating Competitive Research (VI-EPSCoR)—a 14-year-old National Science Foundation-supported research capacity building program based at the University of the Virgin Islands. He is also the Project Lead for a FEMA-funded Hazard Mitigation and Resilience Plan Update for the US Virgin Islands. Prior to that, he was a Senior Program Officer with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Gulf Research Program, which works to improve understanding of the Gulf of Mexico’s interconnecting human, environmental, and energy systems following the 2011 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Before joining the Gulf Research Program, Dr. Waddell served as a study director for over a dozen National Academies reports on agriculture, fisheries and other natural resource management topics.  Kim has also served as executive director for the largest private research foundation for the California wine industry, and worked to build marine and environmental research capacity in the Caribbean region as a research associate professor at the Texas A&M University. He received his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the University of South Carolina and his B.A. in Environmental Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Dr. Waddell can be contacted at kim.waddell@uvi.edu