
Julia Noordyk is the Water Quality & Coastal Communities Specialist at the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute. She works closely with the Lower Green Bay and Fox River Area of Concern Citizen Advisory Committee in developing education and outreach to elected officials and community leaders. Noordyk is also a Great Lakes NOAA Coastal Storms Program Outreach Coordinator and focuses on hazard mitigation, community resilience, and reducing stormwater impacts with green infrastructure.
A former NOAA Coastal Management Fellow, Noordyk came to Sea Grant from the Maine Coastal Program where she was a senior planner working on outreach programs in offshore wind energy, water quality and coastal public access. She has a M.S. degree in conservation biology and sustainable development from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a B.S. in zoology from Colorado State University.