Laura Trilles is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with fifteen (15) years of experience leading teams, directing, coordinating, and managing projects, and delivering measurable results to clients, Laura is a skilled program and operations director. She has excellent organizational, leadership, public relations, and communications skills. She is experienced in managing a variety of client projects ($20-$50 M Revenue, 80+ employee base) that cross many geographic locations (10+ timezones). She has led teams of multi-disciplined program managers, project managers, coordinators, and staff working offsite, remotely or at client facilities on the West Coast and across the Pacific Islands. 

Laura has a Master of Science in Marine Science from Hawaii Pacific University where she studied patterns of coral recruitment in the presence of invasive algae and a native sea urchin biocontrol in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. Laura also assisted in establishing Hawaii’s first ex situ coral nursery. She currently participates in a variety of projects including ecological research and restoration, watershed management, marine and terrestrial research and restoration, education and outreach, Hawaiian marine, animal, and plant identification for government, commercial and nonprofit clients. She has twelve (12) years of combined lab and field experience in marine and aquatic scientific research, and she is a certified Divemaster with 400+ logged dives. She recently developed and taught a series of trainings on native Hawaiian bird species identification, handling and construction hazards (artificial lights and downed seabirds). She has eight (8) years of field experience with birds including threatened native Hawaiian species, seabirds, waterfowl, forest birds and migratory birds.