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Kathleen Stafford. View. Contact. Associate Professor. kate.stafford@oregonstate.edu. Office: 541-737-0183. Biography. At OSU. My Publications. Credentials: NRC Post-doctoral Research Associate, NOAA/AFSC/National Marine Mammal Lab. PhD Interdisciplinary Oceanography, Oregon State University.
Kate Stafford. Oceanographer. apl.uw.edu. TED Speaker. Kate Stafford's research examines migratory movements, geographic variation and physical drivers of marine mammals, particularly large whales. Why you should listen.
Oceanographer Kate Stafford lowers us into the sonically rich depths of the Arctic Ocean, where ice groans, whales sing to communicate over vast distances -- and climate change and human noise threaten to alter the environment in ways we don't understand. Learn more about why this underwater soundscape matters and what we might do to protect it.
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One hundred eleven experts on the land, ocean, and ice north of the Arctic Circle pitched in to write the 2021 Arctic Report Card. The trends scientists spoke of in 2006 – the first report card – have become more extreme since then. Kate Stafford reports increasing man-made noises in the Bering Strait, a place rich with marine mammal songs.
Kate Stafford is the Senior Principal Oceanographer in the Applied Physics Lab at the University of Washington and an affiliate Associate Professor in the School of Oceanography at the University of Washington in Seattle. She is also an Associate Professor and Principal Investigator at Oregon State University in the Marine Mammal Institute.
Kate Stafford is the Senior Principal Oceanographer in the Applied Physics Lab at the University of Washington and an affiliate Associate Professor in the School of Oceanography at the University of Washington in Seattle. She is also an Associate Professor and Principal Investigator at Oregon State University in the Marine Mammal Institute.
