Kathryn J. Mengerink

CMBC Lecturer
 Email: mengerink@eli.org
Office: 3210 Hubbs Hall
Phone: (858) 822-5821

Staff Attorney and Director, Ocean Program
Environmental Law Institute
2000 L Street NW, Suite 620
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 939-3825

Profile
Kathryn Mengerink, Staff Attorney and Director of the Ocean Program, is an accomplished marine scientist and environmental lawyer. Mengerink s major research interests are ocean and coastal law and policy and bridging the gap between science, law, and policy. Before joining ELI, she served as research associate at the Law of the Sea Institute examining illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing. Her current work includes development of a Legal Drafter s Handbook for Conservation and Sustainable Use of the Marine and Coastal Environment; identification of research needs and management options for aquatic invasive species prevention and control in a changing climate; examining compliance and enforcement in U.S. fisheries management; and developing practical governance materials for implementing ocean and coastal ecosystem-based management.

Education

• J.D. with a specialization in environmental law, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, 2005

• Ph.D. in marine biology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 2002

• B.S. in zoology, Texas A&M University, 1996

Selected Publications

Kathryn J. Mengerink, Comment: The Pew Oceans Commission Report--Navigating a Route to Sustainable Seas, 31 Ecology L.Q. 689 (2005).

Kathryn J. Mengerink & Victor D. Vacquier, Isolation and Characterization of Plasma Membranes From Sea Urchin Spermatozoa, in Methods in Molecular Medicine (H. Schatten ed., 2004).

Kathryn J. Mengerink & Victor D. Vacquier, An ATP-Binding Cassette Transporter Is a Major Glycoprotein of Sea Urchin Sperm Membranes, 277 J. Biol. Chem. 407 (2002).

Kathryn J. Mengerink, Gary W. Moy & Victor D. Vacquier, suREJ3: A Polycystin-1 Protein, Is Cleaved at the GPS Domain and Localizes to the Acrosomal Region of Sea Urchin Sperm, 277 J. Biol. Chem. 943 (2002).

Kathryn J. Mengerink & Victor D. Vacquier, Glycobiology of Sperm Egg Interactions in Deuterostomes, 11 Glycobiology 37R (2001).

Kathryn J. Mengerink, Gary W. Moy & Victor D. Vacquier, suREJ Proteins: New Signaling Molecules in Sea Urchin Spermatozoa, 8 Zygote S28 (2000).