Pam Kylstra is a program development specialist with the NOAA Coastal Services Center where she also serves as the Center’s Sea Grant Liaison. She provides facilitation services and develops and delivers training programs for the coastal resource management community, including Sea Grant, National Estuarine Research Reserves (NERR), and other federal, state, and local agencies and organizations. She also contributes to the instructional design of Center products. Pam holds a master of science in marine resource management from Oregon State University’s College of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and a bachelor of science in zoology from North Carolina State University. She has completed certification courses in instructional design, facilitation, and mediation. Before joining the Center, Pam worked on the Oregon coast with the South Slough NERR to coordinate a public involvement program. As a faculty member with the School for Field Studies’ Center for Coastal Studies in Baja California Sur, Mexico, she collaborated with local educators to develop bioregional environmental education curricula. Other experience includes working with a training team to implement a community-level coral reef monitoring program and training volunteer field research assistants for seasonal behavioral ornithology research in Central America.