Marie Zahn
Tracking the Tusk: Using Sound to Study Narwhal Movements
About the Speaker
Marie Zahn is a polar marine ecologist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of Washington's Applied Physics Laboratory's Polar Science Center. Her passion for the outdoors and experience in remote regions like Antarctica and Alaska inspired her to pursue a career in marine biology, focusing on the polar regions most impacted by climate change. Marie holds a BA in Environmental Biology from Columbia University and a PhD in Aquatic and Fishery Sciences from the University of Washington. She specializes in using passive acoustics and oceanography to study marine mammals and their interactions with rapidly changing high-latitude ecosystems. Her PhD research centered on beluga and narwhal echolocation in West Greenland, and her current work involves using high-resolution ocean models to study sea ice dynamics. Her broader research interests include marine mammal bioacoustics, glacier ecology, and the connections between top predator ecology and physical processes in the marine environment.
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