Kevin Kelly, President

Mr. Kelly has over twenty years of experience in marine resource science, environmental compliance, project management, and managing and supervising technical staff members. Mr. Kelly is Triton Aquatic’s Senior Project Manager leading teams of two to eight professional staff members for projects that include program planning, marine surveys, environmental and protected species monitoring, regulatory compliance, habitat mitigation and restoration. In addition to managing staff for these projects, Mr. Kelly supports clients in meetings with resource agencies, prepares sections of compliance documents, documents contract progress, ensures all QA/QC procedures are met, and generates reports for each client. Mr. Kelly has worked directly with Federal and State resource agencies to develop plans and evaluation metrics for a variety of scientific and management programs. Mr. Kelly offers project support in scientific field plan development, environmental field sampling and surveying, fisheries database analysis, technical report writing, quality assurance and quality control for technical documents, project planning, preparing and reviewing environmental compliance permitting and other documentation, and client communication. He has a Master’s Degree in Biological Oceanography, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology

Emma Forbes, Aquaculture Specialist

Emma Forbes joined Triton Aquatic Corporation in December 2016, bringing three years of aquaculture experience from the Oceanic Institute as a lead researcher on the first successful aquaculture of the yellow tang Zebrasoma flavescens. Her research focused on feeding strategies for the delicate larval stages of marine ornamentals, including the establishment of non-pathogenic bacteria within the live feeds and guts of larval fish to improve survival through the first two weeks post hatch. Ms. Forbes revised spawning and rearing protocols for increased efficiency, updated feeding regime to maximize broodstock egg production while maintaining high quality eggs for moi (Pacific Threadfin), striped mullet (Mugil cephalus), ocellaris clownfish, tomato clownfish, and flame angelfish (Centropyge loricula). Ms. Forbes is the Triton Aquatic’s aquaculture specialist for research and technology. She is the primary scientific author for our documents and works directly with federal agencies. She has extensive experience with environmental field sampling and surveying, technical report writing and project planning. Ms. Forbes is HAZWOPER certified, an advanced open water diver, proficient in data analysis and has an extensive knowledge of marine resources around the Pacific Island Region. Ms. Forbes has an M.S. in marine science from Hawaii Pacific University, and a B.S. in Science from Old Dominion University.