Contact Us
Mailing Address
Northwest Straits Commission
10441 Bayview-Edison Road
Mount Vernon, WA 98273-9668
Email and Phone
Main phone number: (360) 428-1084. For a list of staff email addresses and direct phone numbers, see below.
Driving Directions
The Northwest Straits Commission is located at the Padilla Bay Research Reserve. Our offices are in the Breazeale House. Click the map at right to view larger image.
Click here for a map of the Padilla Bay Reserve campus.
Take Interstate 5 north from Seattle or south from Bellingham to exit 231, near Burlington. At the roundabout on the west end of the freeway bridge, take Josh Wilson Road west toward Anacortes about six miles. At the end of Josh Wilson, turn right onto Bayview-Edison Road. The Padilla Bay Research Reserve site is on the right, 1/4 mile past Bayview State Park. Breazeale House is the small farmhouse at the north end of the reserve campus.
Commission Staff
Ginny Broadhurst, Director - 360-428-1085, broadhurst @nwstraits.org
Ginny Broadhurst is the director for the Northwest Straits Commission. Prior to this appointment in 2008, she was the Commission’s Marine Program Manager for four years, overseeing regional restoration work and providing technical support to the Commission and MRCs. Ginny received her master's degree in Marine Affairs from the University of Washington and worked for the Puget Sound Action Team from 1991 to 2003 on wetlands protection policies, shoreline management, marine protected areas and land use management issues. She currently represents the Northwest Straits Commission on the Puget Sound Partnership’s Ecosystem Coordination Board, PSNERP’s Executive Committee and the Rockfish Advisory Committee. Ginny also serves as Director of the Northwest Straits Foundation.
Caroline Gibson, Marine Program Manager - 360-428-1057 or 360-385-1153, gibson @nwstraits.org
Caroline joined the Commission staff in 2009, following more than a decade of marine fisheries research and related advocacy in the regional non-profit sector. Hailing from Newfoundland, she studied marine biology at Memorial University before moving to New England for adventures at sea and on shore throughout the North and Mid-Atlantic. She now serves on advisory committees to the Puget Sound Nearshore Ecosystem Restoration Project and Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary; and on the board of Habitat Media. Caroline is a former member of the Jefferson County Marine Resources Committee, and staffs the Port Townsend office, located in the Northwest Maritime Center.
Sasha Horst, Project Specialist - 360-428-1084, horst @nwstraits.org
Sasha Horst has served as staff for the Commission since 2001. A third-generation Washingtonian, she was born and raised in Seattle and moved to Bellingham to attend Western Washington University, where she earned degrees in education and music. Her Project Specialist title has encompassed a broad range of duties, most recently including grant management, web site maintenance and tracking the Commission's federal budget as well as providing some of the institutional memory for this growing organization.
Foundation Staff
Joan Drinkwin, Interim Director
1155 N. State St. Suite 322 Bellingham, WA 98225
phone: 360-733-1725
drinkwin@nwstraits.org
Tracie Johannessen, Program Manager
1155 N. State St. Suite 322 Bellingham, WA 98225
phone: 360-756-5024
johannessen@nwstraits.org
The Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative, authorized by Congress, is nationally recognized as an innovative approach to bring sound science and an ecosystem perspective together with citizen energy and entrepreneurship.