Know Your Ocean Speaker Series-Evelyn Tickle-Fabricating Biodiversity Via Multi-Species Cooperation

Evelyn Tickle, Founder of Grow Oyster Reefs shares how she uses her 20 years of experience in biomimetic design and concrete fabrication to tackle reef restoration around the world. She is the inventor of biophilic concrete and other patented restoration products which have been tested by the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS), and installed in the Gulf of Mexico, the Chesapeake Bay, along the north-eastern seaboard of the United States, and on the south coast of the UK.
Evelyn is internationally recognized as a leader in coastal resilience and aquatic ecosystem restoration. She is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and was educated as an architect at SCI_Arc in Los Angeles. An expert in biomimetic design and concrete fabrication, Tickle invented GRoW Oyster Reefs’ biophilic concrete and patented reef restoration products. She is also actively involved in initiatives in the U.S. offshore wind industry, campaigning on the basis that clean energy must not be delivered at the expense of a dirty ocean.