Eliot Fisher / about
From the coast, outward.
Environmental science, land-use planning, ocean rescue, and the tools that connect them.
From marine science to policy to the tools in between.
I spent three years in land-use planning on the East End of Long Island — zoning analyses, site plans, permitting, and representing landowners at town review boards, including a water-quality project I carried through to a $63,446 grant. Before that I studied environmental and marine science at Stony Brook, and I’ve spent ten summers as an ocean rescue lifeguard on the Atlantic coast. Today I’m at the Middlebury Institute studying environmental policy, building the data and evidence tools that tie all of it together. I expect to graduate in December 2026 with an MA in Environmental Policy and Management.
The common thread is legibility: taking a zoning code, an ocean-observing budget line, or a flood-prone site and making it clear enough to act on.