Speakers
Saturday, Nov 7 -
Hannah Myers, PhD
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Hannah Myers, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She focuses on reducing incidental human-caused mortality of marine mammals and on basic ecological research to inform conservation and management. In Alaska, her work includes a collaborative project with the Amendment…
Fred Sharpe, PhD
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Fred has been studying the foraging ecology of humpback whales in SE Alaska since 1987. He received his Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University, focusing his research on acoustics, social behavior, and bubble tools. Fred’s interest in conservation biology has led him to follow whales to their Hawaiian wintering grounds to…
Dr. Ted Cheeseman
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Dr. Ted Cheeseman is a research fellow at the University of California Santa Cruz and co-founder and director of Happywhale, a research collaboration and citizen science platform that uses AI-powered image recognition to track individual whales globally. He completed his PhD in Marine Science at Southern Cross University, Australia, where…
Flip Nicklin
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Flip Nicklin is a world-renowned underwater photographer. He has spent his 47-year career specializing in the photography of marine mammals, especially whales and dolphins. Through 21 National Geographic articles from 1981 to the present, he has worked closely with top whale researchers from around the world. From this work Flip…