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Victoria Rowntree - Senior Scientist

Victoria Rowntree is a co-founder of the Ocean Alliance and director of the Right Whale Program. Before Joining Ocean Alliance she curated wasps for Howard Evans at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology and assisted C. Richard Taylor in experiments on the energetics of animal locomotion and thermoregulation at Harvard's Concord Field Station. Vicky joined Roger Payne's laboratory in 1976 and has worked on all aspects of right whale data collection and analysis. In addition to right whale research she has conducted studies on the relationship between cyamids (whale ectoparasites) and their whale hosts, worked in the field studying the effects of the sounds of oil drilling and exploration on gray and humpback whales as well as laboratory analyses of similar studies on bowhead whales. Recent field work has involved documenting the effect of gull harassment on the right whales at Peninsula Valdes. Her specific interests lie in understanding the social behavior of right whales and more particularly the social interactions of mothers on the nursery ground.

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