Below the surface: Culture, Genes, Conservation, and the Future of Southern Resident Killer Whales
Fri, Jun 23
|Pender Island
Below the surface: Culture, Genes, Conservation, and the Future of Southern Resident Killer Whales with Misty MacDuffee Lance Barrett-Lennard Valeria Vergara of Raincoast Conservation Foundation
Time & Location
Jun 23, 2023, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Pender Island, 4418 Bedwell Harbour Rd, Pender Island, BC V0N 2M1, Canada
About the Event
Who is coming from Raincoast Conservation Foundation?
Senior Scientist and Cetacean Conservation Research Program Director:
Dr. Valeria Vergara holds a BSc in Biology and a Masters in Behavioral Ecology, both from Trent University in Ontario, and a PhD in Zoology from the University of British Columbia. She co-directs Raincoast’s Cetacean Conservation Research Program.
She is particularly interested in the communicative and perceptual capacities of marine mammals and the conservation implications of such capacities. In the last two decades, she has participated in a diverse array of cetacean field studies, including humpback whales, killer whales, Guiana dolphins, narwhals and beluga whales in various areas of Canada.
Biologist and Wild Salmon Program Director:
Misty MacDuffee is a conservation biologist with a focus on fisheries ecology in salmon ecosystems. For the past 15 years, she has undertaken various types of field, laboratory, technical and conservation assessments in the salmon-bearing watersheds of the BC…