ACS National Scientific Advisory Panel
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is a senior research biologist and co-founder of Cascadia Research. He has served as the principal investigator of more than 40 research studies on marine mammals, marine birds, and pollution. His recent projects include: coordinating a project to estimate the abundance of humpback whales in the entire North Pacific Ocean using photo-identification data, examining movements and estimating the abundance of blue whales in the North Pacific, studying residency patterns of gray whales in Washington waters, examining habitat preferences and abundance of harbor porpoises and evaluating trends in contaminant levels of harbor seals. He holds a B.S. from Evergreen State College.
leads the Marine Mammal Group in the Conservation Biology Section within the science branch of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Under his direction, the staff of his department studies the abundance, distribution and characteristics of marine mammals, as well as their interaction with other species. Previously, he worked at the Vancouver Aquarium and led the whale research program at the Aquarium for 14 years. He holds a B.S. and Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of British Columbia.
is the Research Director of the Wild Dolphin Project and has completed 18 years of her long-term study of the Atlantic spotted dolphins inhabiting Bahamian waters. She is also a member of the research faculty in biological sciences at Florida Atlantic University and has authored and co-authored many papers in the fields of whale biology, animal behavior, communication and environmental ethics. She holds a B.S. in Marine Zoology, an M.A. in Behavioral Biology, and a Ph.D. in Behavioral Biology.
is a scientist at the National Marine Fisheries Southwest Fisheries Science Center. His research focuses on population biology, conservation, ecology and stock assessment of small cetaceans. He has studied all over the world, including Asia, New Zealand, and the Gulf of Mexico, among others. He holds a B.A. from the University of California Santa Cruz, a M.Sc. from the Moss Landing Marine Laboratory, and a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University.
is an adjunct professor of oceanography and an associate marine research scientist at the University of Rhode Island. His research is the ecology, behavior and conservation of marine mammals and sea turtles and his main focus is on the western North Atlantic population of right whales. He holds a B.S. in Natural Resources and Aquatic Sciences from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography from the University of Rhode Island.
has worked with marine mammal research for the past 20+ years, commencing fieldwork in the high Arctic while she was still an undergraduate. She has been fortunate in having had the opportunity to work extensively with all northern seal species as well as walrus, Antarctic fur seals, narwhal and white whales during her career. Dr. Kovacs has the academic rank of Full Professor and holds a position at University Studies on Svalbard in addition to her governmental position as Biodiversity Research Leader for the Norwegian Polar Institute. She has published 95+ peer-reviewed journal articles, one book and numerous popular articles, scientific reports and book chapters - most in the field of marine mammalogy. Dr. Kovacs is currently the President of the International Society for Marine Mammalogy.
studies marine mammals and focuses on behavior (mating, feeding and migration), seasonal movements, navigation and critical habitat assessment. Additional specialties include diving physiology, energetics and marine mammal competition with fisheries and aquaculture. He has successfully applied satellite-monitored radio tags to bowhead whales, manatees, gray whales, blue whales, humpback whales, right whales, bottlenose dolphins and pilot whales. The tags are designed to relay information on dive duration, water temperature, dive depth and locations. This information is used to determine critical habitats for feeding, calving, breeding and migration. He holds a B.S. and a Ph.D. from the University of Oregon.
is a conservation biologist with the Science Resource Center at the Wildlife Conservation Society. He oversees the Conservation Genetics Program in a joint program with the Molecular Systematics Laboratory of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. His main areas of research are conservation of Southern Hemisphere whale populations and the application of genetic techniques to promote conservation of endangered species. To address genetic issues surrounding the recovery of whale populations, he and his colleagues developed a technique to extract DNA from historical baleen specimens. His work has provided valuable information concerning levels of genetic diversity and systematic relationships among a number of critically endangered species of large whales. He received his Ph.D. in Biology from Yale University.
, Ph.D., served as the research director for NOAA Fisheries Protected Species and Biodiversity Branch in the Southeast Fisheries Science Center in Miami, Florida, and now serves as a research program developer and coordinator for NOAA Fisheries' Office of Science and Technology in Silver Spring, Maryland. Dr. Swartz has focused his career on the conservation and management of protected species, especially marine mammals, and he is an expert on large whale behavior, biology, and natural history.
is a professor at the College of the Atlantic as well as a senior researcher in the Allied Whale marine mammal research facility in Bar Harbor, Maine, and he specializes in studies of human and marine mammal interactions. His training in bioacoustics has led to several environmental impact-type assessments of human activity, including a bioacoustic examination of the problem of whale-ship strikes. His main area of interest is behavioral ecology, foraging and diet studies and bioacoustics of marine mammals, mostly humpback and fin whales. He has a B.S. from the University College of North Wales, as well as an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Biopsychology from the Memorial University of Newfoundland.
is a conservation biologist with the Chicago Zoological Society, the Director of the Center for Marine Mammal and Sea Turtle Research for Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Ocean Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research focuses on the behavior, ecology and population biology of bottlenose dolphins along the west coast of Florida, especially the effects of human activities on coastal dolphins, including boat traffic, fishing activities and environmental contaminants. Other research includes behavior studies of Hawaiian spinner dolphins, blue, gray and humpback whales, and the effects of offshore industrial activities on bowhead whales. He received his B.A. in Zoology from the University of South Florida, an M.S. in Zoology from the University of Florida, and a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a postdoctoral fellowship at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
is a professor in the biology department of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. His research focus is the behavior, social organization, cultural transmission, ecology and population biology of sperm and northern bottlenose whales. Graduate students in his lab study the social organization, behavior, acoustics, population biology and conservation of beluga, pilot, sperm and northern bottlenose whales, as well as bottlenose dolphins. He holds a B.A. and a Ph.D. from Cambridge University in England.
is a professor of marine biology at Texas A&M University in Galveston, Texas. His research focuses on the migration of dolphins and whales, behavior and ecology of cetaceans and pinnipeds, as well as the natural history of mammals. He holds a B.S. in Zoology from Ohio State University and a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stonybrook.
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