Alison Frye

About

Experienced educator with a research background in marine habitat restoration and coastal climate resilience.

Experience

• Regional Coordinator, Lower North Shore at MassBays National Estuary Partnership
  Nov 2025 - Present · 9 mos

• Associate Director at Salem Sound Coastwatch
  Sep 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 11 mos

  Coastal Resilience and Marine Habitat Research & Restoration • MA DER Regional Salt Marsh Post-Restoration Monitoring and Analysis, North Shore, MA • WHOI SeaGrant "Modeling and piloting a new seed-based approach to large-scale eelgrass restoration in Massachusetts" (in collaboration with MassBays and MA DMF) • MassDEP/MassBays Statewide eelgrass mapping and groundtruthing • Horseshoe Crab Community Science Survey • CZM Grants: Commercial Street Rain Gardens Case Study (Salem), Winter Island Coastal Bank Erosion (Salem), Resilient Together: Collins Cove Park (Salem) • MVP Grants: Collins Cove to Willows Resilience Study (Salem), Bass River Resilience Study (Beverly), Peabody-Salem Resilient North River

• Science Educator and Sustainability Coordinator at Waring School
  Aug 2021 - Present · 5 yrs

  Marine Biology & Climate Science Teacher Sustainability Coordinator and Greenhouse Manager Biology Teacher and Advisor (2021-2022)

• The Taft School ()
  • Director of Environmental Stewardship
    Jun 2019 - Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    Chair of the Environmental Policies Committee

  • Assistant Director (Taft Educational Center)
    Jun 2019 - Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Science Educator
    Aug 2018 - Jul 2021 · 3 yrs

    AP Environmental Science and Accelerated Biology

• Hatchery Technician at Island Creek Oysters
  Jun 2014 - Aug 2018 · 4 yrs 3 mos