Title: Humpback and Right Whale research in the Bering Sea
When: 17 August 2004
Who: Paul Wade (NMML)

Paul is the head of the Cetacean Assessment and Ecology Program, National Marine Mammal Laboratory, NOAA Fisheries.
Paulās research interests focus on the population dynamics and ecology of marine mammals, the conservation biology of marine vertebrates, and the use of modeling and quantitative methods, particularly Bayesian statistics, in conservation and management. He is a member of the U.S. delegation to the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission, the Cetacean Specialist Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission, and has participated in several ESA recovery and review teams.
Paulās talk was based on ongoing research on cetaceans in Alaska. He talked about Humpback and Right Whale research in the Bering Sea and showed some pictures of a very rare Right Whale sighting taken just days before the talk.

For more information:
Email Paul Wade: paul.wade@noaa.gov