Personally, I’ve been interested in whales since I was a kid and have been privileged enough to have been born into a family that both pushed me in school and helped me, to the best of their abilities, pay for university. I’ve also been fortunate enough to have been supported by some great schools along the and by even better mentors (to whom I’m eternally grateful to). Anyway, for the last (eherm) 13 odd years I’ve been studying or working in the marine mammal field almost exclusively. Over that time I’ve noticed some interesting “particularities” and, dare I say it, bias among the marine mammal researchers. Some of these quirks are quite entertaining and others considerably less so. I’ve compiled them in a list of Jeff Foxworthy-esque statements. I hope you enjoy.
Wednesday, 7 October 2015
You Might Be A Marine Mammal Scientist If....
Hi All [three of you]. I’ve been a horrible slacker lately and not updated anything. Part of this has to do with the fact that I’ve been working on a fairly cool project that’s almost ready for submission to a peer-reviewed journal, just waiting for my advisers to get some feedback to me… Once that's ready I look forward to sharing it here. In the meantime I’ve been thinking about what it means to be a marine mammal scientists, which I guess I should classify myself as since I’ve been unsuccessful in procuring gainful employment with any other species.
Personally, I’ve been interested in whales since I was a kid and have been privileged enough to have been born into a family that both pushed me in school and helped me, to the best of their abilities, pay for university. I’ve also been fortunate enough to have been supported by some great schools along the and by even better mentors (to whom I’m eternally grateful to). Anyway, for the last (eherm) 13 odd years I’ve been studying or working in the marine mammal field almost exclusively. Over that time I’ve noticed some interesting “particularities” and, dare I say it, bias among the marine mammal researchers. Some of these quirks are quite entertaining and others considerably less so. I’ve compiled them in a list of Jeff Foxworthy-esque statements. I hope you enjoy.
Personally, I’ve been interested in whales since I was a kid and have been privileged enough to have been born into a family that both pushed me in school and helped me, to the best of their abilities, pay for university. I’ve also been fortunate enough to have been supported by some great schools along the and by even better mentors (to whom I’m eternally grateful to). Anyway, for the last (eherm) 13 odd years I’ve been studying or working in the marine mammal field almost exclusively. Over that time I’ve noticed some interesting “particularities” and, dare I say it, bias among the marine mammal researchers. Some of these quirks are quite entertaining and others considerably less so. I’ve compiled them in a list of Jeff Foxworthy-esque statements. I hope you enjoy.
Tuesday, 15 September 2015
I Need a Drink, the Cocktail Party Effect
This is a simple post explaining something most of us are quite familiar with already, social drinking. But don't worry, this blog-post is equally relevant to the abstainers among us. Incedently, Go Sober for October!
Actually, the cocktail party effect involves neither cocks nor tails (roosters people, get your mind out of the gutter). It is simply the natural ability to focus your perception on a single speaker when the room is full of conversations.
Actually, the cocktail party effect involves neither cocks nor tails (roosters people, get your mind out of the gutter). It is simply the natural ability to focus your perception on a single speaker when the room is full of conversations.
Tuesday, 21 July 2015
Sitting on a Cliff Waiting for some Dolphins
Notes From the Field
Hello all. I've just returned from a month in the Scottish highlands studying dolphins. Go ahead, you can be jealous and I'll forgive you. But it wasn't all fun and games, even before the tick bites and sunburns. I was there on a collaborative project with the University of Aberdeen Lighthouse Field Station (check them out and donate money) who are also studying dolphins using passive acoustic recorders.The goal was to estimate the detection functions for CPOD and SM acoustic detectors that comprise the majority of the data collection for my PhD.
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