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ACS Lecture Series – Jessica Crance

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Jessica Crance

The next virtual webinar sponsored by the American Cetacean Society (ACS) will be held on Wednesday July 12 at 7:00pm over Zoom. Jessica Crance will be presenting “Right on the brink: Can North Pacific right whales be saved?” No registration is required.

About the Speaker:
Jessica Crance is a marine mammal bioacoustician with the Cetacean Assessment and Ecology Program at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center’s Marine Mammal Laboratory. She received her Masters Degree from the University of San Diego in 2008 where her thesis focused on killer whale vocal development. After graduating, she began working at MML in spring of 2009. Her work at MML focuses on marine mammal passive acoustics, with an emphasis on population monitoring, spatio-temporal distribution, vocal behavior, and call characteristics of Arctic and sub-Arctic marine mammals. She has studied marine mammals across the North Pacific and Alaskan Arctic using a variety of acoustic platforms, with a focus on finding and studying the critically endangered North Pacific right whale.

Get ready to be blown away by this free presentation available on Zoom! It’s going to be an incredible opportunity to learn about these magnificent creatures and find out if they can be saved. So come join us, we hope to see you there!

Join the Zoom presentation.

Meeting ID: 513 147 5168
Passcode: Whales

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