Relevant Experience

January - March 2009: PhD field work on sperm whales offshore of the island of Dominica in collaboration with Anchorage Whale Watch. Observations included: Photoidentification, behavioural follows, sloughed skin sampling, and digital acoustic recording.

July - Oct 2008: Contracted by CARIBwhale as a scientific advisor for the development of their cetacean watching guidelines and sightings network

February - May 2008: PhD field work on sperm whales offshore of the island of Dominica in collaboration with Anchorage Whale Watch. Observations included: Photoidentification, behavioural follows, sloughed skin sampling, coda playbacks and digital acoustic recording.

May 2007: PhD field work on sperm whales in the Sargasso Sea, offshore of Bermuda. Observations included: Photoidentification, behavioural follows, sloughed skin sampling, coda playbacks and digital acoustic recording.

January - March 2007: PhD field work on sperm whales offshore of the island of Dominica, in collaboration with Anchorage Whale Watch. Observations included: Photoidentification, behavioural follows, sloughed skin sampling, and digital acoustic recording.

July 2006: Scientific crew onboard R/V Balaena as a part of the Nothern Bottlenose Whale Study. This cruise, which covered much of the Sable Gully MPA offshore of Nova Scotia, aimed to collect photoidentifications of NBW and to deploy sono-buoys.

January - February 2006: Conducted as a Research Technician in the Whitehead Lab, this field work, which was completed in collaboration with Anchorage Whale Watch, intended to collect blow exudate from both adult and calf sperm whales to further support of the nasal-suckling hypothesis. Observations included: Blow sampling, photoidentification, and sloughed skin sampling.

January - April 2005: MSc field work on sperm whales offshore of the island of Dominica, WI. Observations included: Photoidentification, behavioural follows, digital acoustic recordings using a mobile array, and sloughed skin sampling.

July - August 2004: Scientific crew on board M/V What's Happening as a part of the Northern Bottlenose Whale Study. This cruise, which covered areas along the western 1000m contour of the Davis Straight off Labrador, aimed to collect biopsy samples and photoidentifications of NBW.

May - June 2004: MSc field work on sperm whales in the Sargasso Sea, offshore of Beaufort, NC. Observations included: Photoidentifications, behavioural follows, sloughed skin sampling, and digital acoustic recordings using a mobile array.

February - March 2004: MSc field work on sperm whales offshore of the island of Guadeloupe, FWI, in collaboration with Evasion Tropicale. Observations included: Photoidentification, and behavioural follows.

September 2003: Scientific crew on board R/V Balaena as a part of the Northern Bottlnose Whale Study. This cruise, which covered areas within the Sable Gully MPA offshore of Nova Scotia, intended to collect photoidentifications and biopsy samples of the NBW.

January 2003: Contracted by Peter Tyack at Woods Whole Oceanographic Institute as a theodolite operator and Pythagoras software consultant for the gray whale sonar validation study at the Diablo Canyon field station.

May - September 2002: Research assistant to Dr. Lars Bejder's and Dr. Vincent Janik's work on bottlenose dolphins out of the Monkey Mia Dolphins Research Foundation's Shark Bay field station. Observations included: photoidentification, digital acoustic recordings, beahvioural focal follows, theodolite tracking, sea turtle captures.

September 2001 - April 2003: Computer based acoustic analysis of digital recordings of bottlenose dolphin vocalizations using the program Spectrogram