DAY 5:
9:00 - 9:30 AM - "The Weird and Wonderful: Ocean Oddballs and Peculiar Partnerships" by Brianna Zuber of Mendocino College. Brianna was born and raised in north Georgia. She stayed in Georgia to attend a small college where she earned a degree in Ecology and Field Biology. After that, she received a Master’s degree in Biology and finished her Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences. All along the way she studied fishes, ecology, and the environment. She moved to Ukiah a few years ago to work at Mendocino College where she is currently a Biology instructor and teaches courses in Marine Biology, Zoology, and Botany.
mendocino.edu
9:30 - 10:00 AM - "How Ropeless/Buoyless Fishing Can Save Cetaceans and the Fishing Industry" by Rich Riels of SMELTS and Zack Klyver of Blue Planet Strategies.
Captain Richard is the Founder of SMELTS. He has BSc in Industrial Technology and a post baccalaureate degree from Western Washington University Vehicle Research Institute (VRI). He attended Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, MA and earned an AAS in mechanical technology. He is a USCG certified 100 Ton captain.
Richard currently volunteers with the Whatcom Marine Mammal Stranding Network. An engineer by trade, Richard’s passion has always been the wilderness, the ocean and all wild creatures. He founded SMELTS with the vision of merging his acumen for engineering with his passion for environmental stewardship, combining both to develop human interaction prevention technologies. SMELTS is one organization that is leading the way with the development of ropeless fishing using their lobster, crab and gillnet rafts on the west and east coast of the United States.
smelts.org
blueplanetstrategy.com
10:00-11:00 am Jack Barkowski of Moss Landing Marine Labs talks about Large Whale Entanglement and Response - Background and Cooperation with Research Efforts. Jack, a graduate student at Moss Landing Marine Labs, whose master’s thesis will look at the acoustic presence of humpback whales across three west coast national marine sanctuaries, including the Channel Islands, Monterey Bay, and the Olympic Coast. Jack also works as an analyst on the SanctSound project, a large-scale project funded by the Navy and NOAA studying the underwater soundscapes of 7 national marine sanctuaries and monuments. Previously, Jack interned with the Namibian Dolphin Project collecting photographic and acoustic data on bottlenose and Heaviside’s dolphins and the Delfini del Ponente in Italy studying bottlenose dolphins in the Ligurian sea. Jack joined the SR3 Large Whale Entanglement Response Team in 2020 and is part of a joint SR3 / Cascadia Research team conducting large whale surveys in WA, OR and CA.
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11:00 - 12:00 noon - Cynde McInnis Bierman of 7 Seas Whale Watch speaks about "Using A Life Size Inflatable Humpback Whale as a Teaching Tool. Cynde has been in the world of whale education since 1994. As owner of The Whalemobile, a life-sized model of a humpback whale, Cynde travels to schools and libraries educating students about whales and the oceans and what students can do to help protect both. Since Covid, she has added virtual visits to her list of programs! For 27 years, she has worked as a whale watch naturalist spending thousands of hours observing these amazing animals in their natural habitat. In the fall semester, she can be found at Salem State University in Salem, Massachusetts teaching courses about whales, tourism, and interpretation.
7seaswhalewatch.com
