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Dr. Marah J. Hardt is a scientist and strategist with over two decades working on ocean and climate initiatives. She has worked on a diverse portfolio of projects to advance responsible seafood production, climate resilient coastal communities, sustainable aquaculture, and coral reef conservation. Prior to CEA, Marah was Director of Discovery at the Future of Fish, supporting human-centered approaches to sustainable fisheries and supply chains. She was also a Fellow at the Blue Ocean Institute, where she designed and led their climate change program.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She received her PhD from Scripps Institution of Oceanography and has published widely in academic and popular media. Her first book, Sex in the Sea: Our Intimate Connection with Sex-changing Fish, Romantic Lobsters, Kinky Squid, and Other Salty Erotica of the Deep (St. Martin\u2019s Press) was released in 2016.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","speaker_category":[132,9],"class_list":["post-95612","speaker","type-speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","speaker_category-132","speaker_category-speaker-category"],"metadata":{"speaker_id":["fa4ef320-e663-4628-8e3a-0de0e5783214"],"speaker_email_address":["marah@ceaconsulting.com"],"speaker_first_name":["Marah"],"speaker_last_name":["Hardt"],"speaker_full_name":["Marah Hardt"],"speaker_company_name":["CEA Consulting"],"speaker_job_title":["Director"],"speaker_updated_at":["2026-01-30T15:51:33.452Z"],"_thumbnail_id":["95613"],"speaker_photo_url":["https:\/\/content-cdn.sessionboard.com\/event-files%2FRvN02rS1edCSyPg3NqAc_CEA%20Marah%20Headshot.jpg"],"_eael_post_view_count":["367"],"speaker_sessions":[95664,95664],"rank_math_internal_links_processed":["1"],"_elementor_page_assets":["a:0:{}"]},"thumbnail":"\"\"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafoodexpo.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/95612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafoodexpo.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafoodexpo.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafoodexpo.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafoodexpo.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafoodexpo.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafoodexpo.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"speaker_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafoodexpo.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_category?post=95612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}