Rob Brower
CHAIR
Rob Brower is a 45 year veteran surfer and diver; 40 year resident of Kauai; custom home builder with an emphasis on sustainability. "We as a species naturally protect what we love; now more than ever we require a critical mass of humans who truly love the ocean."
VICE CHAIR/ Blue Water Task Force
Kat has been enthralled with the ocean ever since she was a toddler thanks to her mother and today is an avid water-woman in many areas. She has logged several scientific dives working with Operation Wallacea. She has learned to sail and lived abroad on research vessels, she has worked as an aquarist and educator from a young age. Kat is involved with multiple nonprofits centered around nature and the ocean. Her personal motto is, “volunteers make the community!”
Greg Scott
Volunteer Coordinator
Greg has been volunteering with the Surfrider Foundation on Kaua‘i since 2020, helping remove marine debris from Kaua‘i’s coastlines. When he’s not hiking through jungles to remote beaches and waterfalls, Greg works as a technology executive in Austin, Texas.
Scott McCubbins
TREASURER/ Net Patrol Co-Coordinator
Ayahna Shea
AT- LARGE/ Blue Water Task Force
From mauka to makai Ayahna's why is wai. She is a passionate hydrologist and geographer who is dedicated to amplifying local community and indigenous practices of ecosystem preservation. Her work tends to keep her upstream however she can be often found taking advice from her coworker the kahawai(stream) and returning to the sea. Particularly fond of our wetlands, muliwai (estuary), and loko'ia (fishpond) and the future of listening to the many biological indicators of healthy waterways like limu (water plant), manu and o'opu.
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Carl J. Berg, Ph.D.
SENIOR SCIENTIST
Carl is a research scientist, working on water quality issues in Hawaii for nearly 30 years. He has published papers on Kauai Surfrider's research on glyphosate pollution in honey, identification of human waste in our streams and how ocean dynamics determine abundance of marine debris on our shores. A research paper "Source identification of multinational abandoned, lost, or discarded fishing gear from the eel and hagfish trap fisheries throughout the North Pacific Ocean", reporting on our 4-year project, was published in April 2026.
Barbara Wiedner
Net Patrol Co-Coordinator/ Marine Debris Education
Barbara is passionate about protecting Kauai's ocean environment and educating on this topic She has been involved with Surfrider Kauai since 2006. Barbara loves surfing, swimming and hiking with her dogs!
Cynthia Welti
Marine Debris Program: Data Analyst
Like a number of Surfrider members, Cynthia is a swimmer, not a surfer. She likes to swim out well beyond the surf, sometimes imaging life as a whale. She has been active with the Kauai Chapter since 2015 serving as Secretary, Vice Chair, and Chair. As the Data Analyst, Cynthia keeps track of the tons of debris annually brought in by dedicated volunteers led by Barbara Wiedner and Scott McCubbins. Reporting the results is important to show the magnitude of marine debris and its potential harm, especially Ghost Fishing Gear. Cynthia works from her home office in Seattle, WA.
Matt Kaufmann
Ocean Friendly Restaurants
Matt is active in multiple community and conservation activities but mostly looks for excuses to be outside. He’s the Kaua‘i coordinator of Surfrider's Ocean Friendly Restaurant program which encourages restaurants to adopt eco-friendly practices. He's a volunteer with the Hawaiian Monk Seal Response Team (NOAA & DLNR) and a Disaster Action Team and Shelter coordinator volunteer with the Red Cross. With his wife Amanda, Matt created ‘Iliokai, a Kaua‘i-based clothing and accessories brand with a mission to raise awareness and money for the protection, conservation, and recovery of the Hawaiian Monk Seal.