Brenda Konar is a marine scientist, and professor at University of Alaska Fairbanks.
[1] In 1991 Konar earned a master's degree from San Jose State University where she worked on Coralline algae.
[2] In 1998 Konar earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz[3] where she worked on benthic communities in the Semichi Islands.
[5] She studies the die-off in sea stars.
[6][7][8][9][10] She studies the decline in sea otterss, boom in sea urchins,[11] and loss of Clathromorphum nereostratum, limestone reefs.