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Former Team Members

Former PhD Students

Former PhD Students

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Kirby Parnell

PhD 2025

Underwater Acoustic Ecology of the Hawaiian Monk Seal

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Phil Patton

PhD 2025

Monitoring cetaceans with computer vision and hierarchical models

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Brijonnay Madrigal

PhD 2025

Underwater soundscapes and false killer whale acoustic ecology across the Hawaiian Archipelago

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Martin van Aswegen

PhD 2025

The energetic cost of reproduction and growth in humpback whales

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Fabien Vivier

PhD 2024

Implementing a novel approach to quantify the age-structure of free-ranging delphinid populations using unoccupied aerial system photogrammetry

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Michael Richlen

PhD 2018

Underwater Passive Acoustic Monitoring Around Kauai, Hawail

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Adam Smith

PhD 2017

Characteristics of hearing and echolocation in under-studied odontocete species

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Jessica Chen

PhD 2017

Acoustic ecology of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in the Hawaiian Archipelago

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Adrienne Copeland

PhD 2016

Influences of spatial and temporal variability of sound scattering layers on deep diving odontocetes behavior

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Giacomo Giorli

PhD 2015

Deep Diving Odontocetes Foraging Strategies: Using Acoustical Techniques to Investigate on Odontocetes' Deep Sea Foraging and Foraging Fields

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Alexis Rudd

PhD 2015

Investigating the movement and seasonal occurrence of cetaceans in Hawai'i using sound

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Kristen Taylor

PhD 2013

Directional Hearing and a Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF) of an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)

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Laura Kloepper

PhD 2012

Dynamics of echolocation in odontocetes

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Alison Stimpert

PhD 2010

Non-song sound production and its behavioral context in humpback
whales (Megaptera novaeangliae)

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Kim Andrews

PhD 2009

Barriers to Gene Flow in the Spinner Dolphin (Stenella longirostris)

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T. Aran Mooney

PhD 2008

Temporal effects of sound on the odontocete auditory system: an electrophysiological analysis

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Stuart Ibsen

PhD 2006

Use of phantom echo techniques to determine echolocation parameters and strategies of dolphins

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Michelle Bejder

PhD 2005

Auditory perception of three Delphinid species: the false killer whale, the bottlenose dolphin, and the Risso’s dolphin

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Brian Branstetter

PhD 2005

Sound localization and auditory perception by an echolocating bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)

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Kelly Benoit-Bird

PhD 2003

Dynamics of the Hawai‘ian Mesopelagic Boundary Community and their effects on Predator Foraging

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Marc Lammers

PhD 2003

The Behavior and broadband acoustic signaling of Hawaiian spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris)

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Chong Wei

PhD 2015

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Lee Shannon

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Former Master's Students

Former Master's Students

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Kyleigh Ferttita

M.S. 2025

Abundance of short-finned pilot whales near Kaua'i

Island, Hawaii

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Liah McPherson

M.S. 2023

Abundance and demographic parameters of spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris subsp.) off Oʻahu's Waiʻanae Coast

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Aliza Milette-Winfree

M.A. 2015

It Takes Two: the simulation of a social interaction to quantify variations in acoustic cues with animal position and head morphology

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Sanami Nakayama

M.S. 2015

Evoked Potential (AEP) system by measuring the hearing of a false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens)

Former Post Docs

Former Post-Doctoral Fellows

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Giacomo Giorli

Post Doctoral Researcher

2016-2017​

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Marc Lammers

Post Doctoral Researcher

2003-2007

Assistant/Associate Researcher

2007-2017

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Songhai Li

Post Doctoral Researcher

2009-2011

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Julie Owald

Post Doctoral Researcher

2007-2009

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Kelly Benoit-Bird

Post Doctoral Researcher 

2003-2004

Former Staff

Former Staff

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Andrew Brown

Animal care and special projects

2012-2017

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Christopher Quintos

Animal care and training

2003/2007/2009-2013

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Dera Look

Animal Care and Training

1997-2009

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Linda Choy

Director's assistant

1993-2015

Former Interns

Former Visiting Students and Interns

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Chong Wei

2016

The Physical Mechanism of Beam Formation in Dolphin’s Biosonar

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