Brenda Konar

Brenda Konar is a marine scientist, and professor at University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Education
In 1991 Konar earned a master's degree from San Jose State University where she worked on Coralline algae. In 1998 Konar earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz where she worked on benthic communities in the Semichi Islands.

In 2021, she was named Project Director of the “Fire & Ice” research project.

Research
She studies the die-off in sea stars. She studies the decline in sea otterss, boom in sea urchins, and loss of Clathromorphum nereostratum, limestone reefs. She helped discover a new habitat of rhodolith.