Hannah Myers, PhD
Keeping Killer Whales Out of Trawl Nets: What We Can Achieve when Science and Fishing Teams Work Together
About the Speaker
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 80 trawl fleet in the Bering Sea to understand killer whale behavior around trawl vessels and modify nets to reduce killer whale bycatch risk; as well as co-leading a long-term killer whale monitoring program in Prince William Sound and Kenai Fjords, where she focuses on bioacoustics. She teaches marine policy at UAF.