Eileen Nalley is a fisheries extension agent with the University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant College Program, based at UH Mānoa. In her current position, Eileen is expanding her previous efforts researching the environmental and human impacts of contamination and shifting land use on marine ecosystems and coastal populations in the Pacific Islands. She is continuing to develop creative and effective strategies to ensure the well-being of fisheries and the people who rely on them, while also contributing to the development of a new graduate fisheries program at UH Mānoa.

Eileen earned her PhD in marine biology at UH Mānoa, with dissertation research examining anthropogenic impacts on diet specialization in herbivorous reef fishes at a range of spatial scales using a variety of tools spanning metabarcoding to meta-analysis. She also developed a series of projects assessing land-based contaminants in commonly consumed reef fishes in Hawaiʻi. As a postdoctoral researcher at the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology, she continued this research in the Marshall Islands and worked with NOAA to develop stressor thresholds to inform coral reef management. Most recently she was an ocean and coastal ecosystem specialist for Hawaiʻi Sea Grant.