Kathleen Stafford
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Kate Stafford (birthdate needed) is the Senior Principle Oceanographer in the Applied Physics Lab at the University of Washington and an affiliate Associate Professor in the School of Oceanography at the University of Washington in Seattle.[1] She is also an Associate Professor and Principle Investigator at Oregon State University in the Marine Mammal Institute. [2] Her research focuses on the changing acoustic landscape and the impacts of declining sea ice and human industrial influences affect Arctic marine mammals. [3]
Education
Kate Stafford received her BA in French Literature with a minor in Biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1989.
She received her MS in Wildlife Biology from Oregon State University in 1995. She received her PhD in Interdisciplinary Oceanography from Oregon State University in 2001.
Research
Kate Stafford's research uses passive acoustic monitoring to study the migration of and changes to the habitat of large marine mammals, in particular large whales. Most of her research is based in the polar regions, with a specific focus on the Arctic. Her research looks at how climate change influences the occurrence of Arctic endemic and sub-Arctic species.[4]
References
- ^ "Kate Stafford". Sitka Whalefest. Retrieved 2022-03-08.
- ^ "Kathleen Stafford". Marine Mammal Institute. Retrieved 2022-03-08.
- ^ "The changing acoustic environment of the Arctic". Interalia Magazine. 2021-01-17. Retrieved 2022-03-08.
- ^ "Kate Stafford — Australian Marine Mammal Centre". www.marinemammals.gov.au. Retrieved 2022-03-08.