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National Marine Mammal Laboratory |
Current Activities
Janice Waite is a biologist with the Cetacean Assessment and Ecology Program. She has been involved with research on abundance estimation, distribution, and movements of cetacean species. In particular, she has participated in studies that involve aerial and vessel surveys for harbor porpoise, Dall’s porpoise, beluga whales, killer whales, humpback and fin whales in Alaska and land-based gray whale surveys in California. Recently, she has been working on population studies, using primarily photo-identification, of two ecotypes of western Alaska killer whales
Background
Before joining NMML, Janice was a research associate at the Caribbean Marine Research Center in the Bahamas where she studied habitat selection in queen conch. She received a B.A. in biology and an M.S. in marine science from the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her master’s work looked at alloparental care in the northern resident killer whale community in British Columbia.
