Tali Vardi, a Ph.D. candidate at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, is developing a population model for Acropora palmata, a species currently listed as threatened on the Endangered Species List.  Tali holds a Master's and Bachelor's Degree in Conservation Biology from the University of Pennsylvania. Her master's work involved sea urchin population studies in the coral reefs of the Israeli Red Sea.

Prior to pursuing her Ph.D. at Scripps Oceanography, she worked with the New York City Parks Department's Natural Resources Group where she coordinated a $10 million grant funding habitat restoration projects. These projects tackled controlling erosion, invasive species management, and large-scale tidal and fresh-water wetland construction. Tali also served as a Benthic Ecology Researcher at the Bermuda Biological Station for Research where she conducted long-term monitoring of three primary tropical marine ecosystems, mangroves, coral reefs and sea grass beds, to better understand the effects of urbanization on tropical marine ecosystems.

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