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Current Activities
Yulia Ivashchenko is a guest scientist who works on large whale issues for NMML's Cetacean Assessment and Ecology Program. Her current research interests include bowhead whales in the Okhotsk Sea, as well as North Atlantic and North Pacific humpback whales. Yulia has recently translated into English formerly secret scientific documents relating to the massive campaign of illegal whaling conducted by the former U.S.S.R. from 1948 to 1972. In collaboration with the Russian and Ukrainian biologists who worked aboard Soviet whaling factory ships during this time, she has helped to establish a true catch record for use in population assessments, and is currently planning an oral history project to document the details and context of the illegal hunts. Yulia became a member of the scientific crew for a NMML study of North Pacific right whales in the Bering Sea beginning in July 2007.
Background
Yulia is a Russian citizen who worked for 7 years on the critically endangered population of western gray whales that feed off Sakhalin Island in the Okhotsk Sea. In 2004 and 2005, she was a guest scientist for a large-scale NOAA study of humpback whales in the West Indies and was also part of the field crew for the NOAA 2005 SPLASH humpback whale project off Alaska. Yulia was born in Yaroslavl, where she earned the Russian equivalent of a master's degree in biology. She is a current member of the International Whaling Commission’s Scientific Committee.
