A New Discovery at Shark Bay World Heritage Site

This month I took a trip to Perth, Australia to present a poster at the 25th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals. While there is always so much to learn and get excited about at these conferences, the highlight of my trip turned out to be my post-conference excursion to the Shark Bay World Heritage site. Hoping to […]

Studying Harbor Seals in Churchill, MB

After the disappointment of last summer’s field season (failing to capture any ringed seals), I have spent a lot of time working out how to improve our chances for this coming summer. In that spirit, I jumped at the opportunity to join the field crew of a harbor seal research project and gain more experience capturing seals. Based out of […]

PhD Project on Ringed Seals in the Canadian Arctic

Ringed Seals & Vessel Noise Climate change is driving unprecedented changes in sea ice coverage throughout the Arctic, causing shifts in predator and prey distributions, and altering the underwater soundscape: as the duration and extent of ice-free periods increase, so is vessel noise.  Ringed seals (Pusa hispida) are an ice-obligate species that produce low-amplitude vocalizations year-round in the relatively quiet […]