Members of the Whale Lab

Dr. Dave Duffus

Dr. Duffus founded the Whale Research Lab in the early 1990s, and has continued to study whale ecology, particularly gray whales, on the west coast of Vancouver Island since. 

see: http://whalelab.geog.uvic.ca/lab/people/dduffus


Dr. Rianna Burnham

Rianna her doctoral work at the University of Victoria using ocean gliders with passive and active acoustic technology and passive acoustic recorders to map the presence of whales on the west coast of BC. This, tied with ecological data, will lead to mitigation measures to avoid ship-strike and negative whale-vessel interactions. She now works with the lab as an Ajunct Assistant Professor, instructing several undergraduate courses in the Geography Department and co-supervises graduate students.

see : http://whalelab.geog.uvic.ca/lab/people/rburnham


Roanan DeMeyer

Roanan joins the Whale Lab to complete a Masters looking at gray whale movements and habitat use in British Columbia.


Lynn Rannankari

Lynn continues her work with the lab following the completion of her Honours. Her research focuses on the use of acoustics of fin whales when on migration and in foraging areas, primarily the utility and ecology of calling. Her particular interest is that of call patterns.


Jesslynn Doucette

Jess joined the lab as a Juniour Research Assistant and has been with us in the field and spent many hours under the headphones, adding to the lab's killer whale and fin whale work.


 

...and all those that without all of this would not be possible....

Tom Reimchen: support and sounding board for all crew as an ecology and evolution master

The Clark Family - Hugh, Keith, Becky and the boys: For humour, help and giving us a home

Staff of the Geography Department - Diane, Rick, Ken: for keeping us on the straight and narrow 

Jim Sumich - alway been a great support to the crew, and keeping all the gray whale folks connected. He wrote the book

Olaf Niemann - advice and support (technical or otherwise)

Robin Baird - for remembering the baleen researcher when soaring at great height with work on the toothed variety. Founding member but still active

The guys at JASCO Applied Sciences: for leading us in the realms of underwater acoustics