Kelsey Jeffers, LTJG
305-852-7717
Kelsey is a junior officer with the NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps and has been stationed at the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary since December 2013. She works with volunteers through the sanctuary's Team OCEAN program and with businesses that participate in the Blue Star program. She also supports sanctuary science and operations with a variety of other duties.
She came to the sanctuary following two years as Navigation Officer aboard the NOAA Ship Nancy Foster. Prior to joining NOAA Corps in 2011, Kelsey worked as a chemist for the Vitreous State Laboratory at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. In 2010 she worked as Assistant Aquatic Director and swim coach for the Madeira High School in McLean, Virginia. A collegiate swimmer, she was Pool Manager and private swim instructor at Belle Haven Country Club in Alexandria, Virginia for six summers. In 2009, she joined the Potomac Riverboat Company crew in Alexandria, Virginia and spent two months as a field ecologist in New Zealand through the Global Volunteer Network's Nature Program.
Kelsey has also worked as a Science Instructor at the Newfound Harbor Marine Institute on Big Pine Key, where she fell in love with marine life. A travel enthusiast, Kelsey spent her third year studying sustainable development at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Kelsey has a Bachelor's of Science in Environmental Science from Sweet Briar College in Sweet Briar, Virginia.
