Jasmin Schuster is a kelp researcher and the program manager for the Kelp Rescue Initiative. She grew up in Austria, a land-locked country, but found her love for the ocean through diving. The first time Jasmin saw a kelp forest was on the east coast of Canada, in Newfoundland, where the stark contrast between widespread urchin barrens and remaining kelp beds prompted her to dedicate her PhD research on these ecosystems. She relocated to Vancouver Island in 2021, where she continued her research of kelp and urchin ecosystems and quickly fell in love with the magnificent canopy formers on this coast. Inspired to move from knowledge to action, Jasmin took a new position with the Kelp Rescue Initiative in 2023 to work on kelp restoration and research.