Executive Director & Veterinary Nurse
Casey is the founder and Executive Director of SR3, and a licensed veterinary technician with a degree in marine biology. She has more than two decades of hands-on experience caring for and researching a wide range of marine animals, including sea turtles, seals, sea lions, manatees, dolphins and whales. Casey launched SR3 in 2011, and the organization opened the Pacific Northwest's first dedicated marine wildlife hospital in Des Moines, Washington in 2021. She is an active member of the region's whale, seal and sea lion entanglement response teams and a trained oil-spill responder. Casey also guides SR3's research efforts, including studies of zoonotic disease in marine mammals and drone-based health assessments of Southern Resident killer whales and gray whales that inform protective policy in the United States and Canada.