Former Team Members
Former PhD Students

Kirby Parnell
PhD 2025
Underwater Acoustic Ecology of the Hawaiian Monk Seal

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

Martin van Aswegen
PhD 2025
The energetic cost of reproduction and growth in humpback whales

Fabien Vivier
PhD 2024
Implementing a novel approach to quantify the age-structure of free-ranging delphinid populations using unoccupied aerial system photogrammetry

Michael Richlen
PhD 2018
Underwater Passive Acoustic Monitoring Around Kauai, Hawail

Adam Smith
PhD 2017
Characteristics of hearing and echolocation in under-studied odontocete species

Jessica Chen
PhD 2017
Acoustic ecology of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in the Hawaiian Archipelago

Adrienne Copeland
PhD 2016
Influences of spatial and temporal variability of sound scattering layers on deep diving odontocetes behavior

Giacomo Giorli
PhD 2015
Deep Diving Odontocetes Foraging Strategies: Using Acoustical Techniques to Investigate on Odontocetes' Deep Sea Foraging and Foraging Fields

Alexis Rudd
PhD 2015
Investigating the movement and seasonal occurrence of cetaceans in Hawai'i using sound

Kristen Taylor
PhD 2013
Directional Hearing and a Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF) of an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)

Laura Kloepper
PhD 2012
Dynamics of echolocation in odontocetes

Alison Stimpert
PhD 2010
Non-song sound production and its behavioral context in humpback
whales (Megaptera novaeangliae)

Kim Andrews
PhD 2009
Barriers to Gene Flow in the Spinner Dolphin (Stenella longirostris)

T. Aran Mooney
PhD 2008
Temporal effects of sound on the odontocete auditory system: an electrophysiological analysis

Stuart Ibsen
PhD 2006
Use of phantom echo techniques to determine echolocation parameters and strategies of dolphins

Michelle Bejder
PhD 2005
Auditory perception of three Delphinid species: the false killer whale, the bottlenose dolphin, and the Risso’s dolphin

Brian Branstetter
PhD 2005
Sound localization and auditory perception by an echolocating bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)

Kelly Benoit-Bird
PhD 2003
Dynamics of the Hawai‘ian Mesopelagic Boundary Community and their effects on Predator Foraging

Marc Lammers
PhD 2003
The Behavior and broadband acoustic signaling of Hawaiian spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris)

Chong Wei
PhD 2015
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Former Master Students

Kyleigh Ferttita
M.S. 2025
Abundance of short-finned pilot whales near Kaua'i
Island, Hawaii

Liah McPherson
M.S. 2023
Abundance and demographic parameters of spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris subsp.) off Oʻahu's Waiʻanae Coast

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

Sanami Nakayama
M.S. 2015
Evoked Potential (AEP) system by measuring the hearing of a false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens)
Former Post-Doctoral Fellows

Giacomo Giorli
Post Doctoral Researcher
2016-2017​

Marc Lammers
Post Doctoral Researcher
2003-2007
Assistant/Associate Researcher
2007-2017

Songhai Li
Post Doctoral Researcher
2009-2011

Julie Owald
Post Doctoral Researcher
2007-2009

Kelly Benoit-Bird
Post Doctoral Researcher
2003-2004
Former Staff

Andrew Brown
Animal care and special projects
2012-2017

Christopher Quintos
Animal care and training
2003/2007/2009-2013

Dera Look
Animal Care and Training
1997-2009

Linda Choy
Director's assistant
1993-2015
Former Visiting Students and Interns

Chong Wei
2016
The Physical Mechanism of Beam Formation in Dolphin’s Biosonar
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