Old Dartmouth Lyceum, Michael Moore & Laela Sayigh, "Whale Science - a Local Acoustic Legacy"
Channel: Whaling Museum
Date: 2014-12-04

Laela Sayigh, PhD, is a Research Specialist in Biology at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), and Michael Moore, PhD, is a Senior Research Specialist in Biology and Director of the Marine Mammal Center at WHOI. Their tag team talk described the evolution of scientific interest in whales from natural history to conservation of the whaling industry including whale behavior, acoustics, neurobiology and conservation. Their presentation highlighted a recent acquisition by the Whaling Museum of a marine mammal acoustics archive collected by William Schevill and William Watkins of WHOI.