Beth Pike

Beth Pike is the Director of the Marine Protection Atlas (MPAtlas) program and Senior Scientist at Marine Conservation Institute where she leads the effort to evaluate and report effective marine conservation areas.

Beth’s work on the MPAtlas highlights areas that best protect and conserve the ecosystem through strong marine protection. The MPAtlas has become the only platform to report scientifically evaluated MPAs by both their Stage of Establishment and their Level of Protection, widely cited as an important metric for tracking global marine conservation progress.

Beth Pike earned her Master of Environmental Management from Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment with a certificate in geospatial analysis from the Duke Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab. She is co-chair of the IUCN Task Force on Fisheries and MPAs and a member of a number of other IUCN commissions, a member of The MPA Guide executive committee, and co-author of The Marine OECM Guide. She has studied right whales in the North Atlantic and humpback whales in the North Pacific. Beth has a USCG captain’s license and has worked as a captain, mate and naturalist throughout Alaska, Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest, South Pacific, and Mexico. 

In her free time, Beth loves hiking, boating and spending time with her family.