Billy Adams

Two Perspectives of the Bowhead - Science and Inupiat

About the Speaker

Billy Adams was born in Barrow, Alaska, and is the youngest of twelve children of Rebecca and Baxter Adams. Billy learned to hunt from his father, uncles, brothers, and community elders. Being from a successful whaling family, Billy went out whaling at a young age. He was twelve years old when he first paddled a whaling boat. Billy is a passionate whaler and hunter with much experience and knowledge of the sea ice. Billy has worked for the North Slope Borough Wildlife Department helping scientists with bowhead whale research projects, as a polar bear guard, and currently works as a Subsistence Research Coordinator.