Christopher J. Patrick is an Associate Professor and the Director of the SAV Restoration & Monitoring Program at Virginia Institute of Marine Science, William & Mary (2020- ) where he runs CEEL, MarineGEO Virginia, and is lead PI for the NSF Hurricane Ecosystem Response Synthesis Research Coordination Network. Chris received his B.S. from UMD, College Park (2006) and his PhD from the University of Notre Dame (2011). Prior to VIMS he was a Research Scientist with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (2011-2014), a AAAS S&T Policy Fellow with EPA Office of Water (2014-2015), an Assistant Professor at TAMU Corpus Christi (2016-2019), and a National Academy of Science, Engineering, & Medicine Early Career Fellow (2018-2020). His research on hurricanes began in the wake of Hurricane Harvey in 2017 and includes papers in Estuaries & Coasts, Science Advances, Bioscience, Journal of Animal Ecology, and Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment.