Donna Aderhold, Council

Councilmember Donna Aderhold was first elected to office October 6, 2015.

Current Term: October 2024 to October 2027

Contact Information:
353 Grubstake Avenue
Homer, AK 99603
Phone: (907) 244-4388
Email: DonnaAderhold@ci.homer.ak.us

Background: Ms. Aderhold is the Program Coordinator for the Gulf Watch Alaska Program, supporting multiple agencies and organizations in long-term monitoring of the Gulf of Alaska ecosystem funded by the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council.

Ms. Aderhold’s past experience includes work for consulting firms as a senior wildlife ecologist and for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Geological Survey-Biological Resources Division as a research wildlife biologist. She has a Master of Science degree from Texas A&M University and a Bachelor of Science degree from North Carolina State University. Ms. Aderhold first came to Alaska in 1988 as a biological technician for the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge and moved permanently to the state in 1990 to study snow geese. In 2008 she moved to Homer from Anchorage.

Ms. Aderhold is a member of the Kachemak Heritage Land Trust board of directors and the Kachemak Bay Research Reserve community council. She volunteers for the Coastal Observation and Seabird Study Team (COASST), walking a portion of the Homer Spit beach monthly to monitor seabird mortality. Ms. Aderhold is an Alaska Salmon Fellow, a leadership program of the Alaska Humanities Forum addressing equity and sustainability in Alaska’s salmon-people system. She also participates on Homer’s Opioid Task Force. In her spare time, she writes fiction and is a fan of the Kachemak Bay Writer’s Conference.

Homer residents may find Ms. Aderhold traveling around town on foot or bicycle.