Dr. Sue Moore and Dr. Jennifer Tennessen attended One Ocean Week Seattle, a region-wide, international gathering of ocean leaders, innovators, researchers, startups, policymakers, artists, educators, and communities to accelerate solutions for a sustainable, inclusive maritime future.
Dr. Moore was a panelist on the “Coast to Coast Collaboration in Research” session, organized by Arctic Frontiers, Abroad and held onboard the Statsraad Lehmkuh Tallship at Pier 66. In this session she highlighted her contribution as a marine mammal ecologist in a team of scientists that initiated the Distributed Biological Observatory (DBO) in the Pacific Arctic in 2010; this has now fostered an international effort to establish a Pan-Arctic Network of DBOs.
Both Dr. Tennessen and Dr. Moore attended ‘Sound Check’ at the Seattle Aquarium on Monday morning. This event highlighted successes achieved thus far in lowering underwater sound levels that Southern Resident Killer Whales are exposed to in the Salish Sea by voluntarily slowing of commercial ships. To read more about this issue, check out Dr. Jennessen’s recent paper “Males miss and females forgo: Auditory masking from vessel noise impairs foraging efficiency and success in killer whales.”
Read about different UW attendees in the UW News’s One Ocean Week Roundup!
