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Chong went to college in Northern China and graduated in 2007 with a major in computer science and technology. Then I went to the College of Ocean and Earth Science in Xiamen University and started to study bioacoustics, specializing in the subject of dolphin whistle classification. I got my master’s degree in 2011 in marine … Continued
Giacomo Giorli is a Fulbright scholar from Italy. He was granted his B.S. degree in natural science at the University of Florence, Italy, in 2005 investigating the spatial distribution of bottlenose dolphins in northern Tuscany. In 2008, Giacomo earned his M.S. in conservation and management of natural resource at the University of Florence, Italy, after … Continued
Anjali L. Nath will be participating in the acoustics team for this research cruise. She is a fourth-year degree fellow from the East-West Center and a fourth-year Ph.D. student at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa in the Department of Political Science. She holds a B.A. from California State University at Fullerton in Political Science … Continued
Jessica Chen is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She works at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology in the Marine Mammal Research Program. She moved to Hawaii for graduate school after receiving a B.A. in Behavioral Biology from Johns Hopkins University. Though spending most of her life in Colorado, … Continued
Chelsie Counsell is a first year Ph.D. student in Megan Donahue’s lab at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology. Broadly, her research interests are in the ecology and spatial dynamics of marine communities with a focus on the predators and prey of reef fish. Her dissertation project is beginning to take shape and is focused … Continued
Aimee grew up outside of Chicago, Illinois. After high school graduation, she was given the opportunity to create part of an environmental impact statement on the effects of offshore energy structures on marine mammals and birds with Argonne National Laboratory. That experience took her into a bachelor’s degree at the University of Miami in Coral … Continued
Melanie is a research analyst from the Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research of the University of Hawai’I, and works at the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center. Her research primarily focuses on habitat modeling for various pelagic species using data from satellite tags deployed on animals. She has a Ph.D. in marine ecology from the … Continued
Ali Bayless is a marine mammal observer for the Falkor Student Cruise, as well as a videographer for the outreach efforts. After graduating from the University of Hawaiii at Manoa in 2012 with an M.S. in zoology, she began working as a bioacoustic technician with the Cetacean Research Program at the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science … Continued
Adrienne received her B.S. in Biology and Certificate in Mathematical Biology from Washington State University. Her undergraduate research varied from single celled parasite genetics to mammalian behavior, but all of her diverse research projects employed mathematical tools to understand biological principles. She plans to continue this interdisciplinary approach for her Ph.D. research. Her current research … Continued
Shellie Habel is a first year M.S. student in the Department of Geology and Geophysics in the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where she also received her B.S. in 2013. She works under Dr. Chip Fletcher as a member of the Coastal Geology Group, … Continued
