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Alexander
Burdin, PhD, Project Co-Director,
is Chief, Laboratory of Animal Ecology, Kamchatka Branch of Pacific Institute of Geography, and now based at the Alaska SeaLife Center.
He has worked on marine mammals in the Russian Far East since 1979.
Since 1995, he has worked on a joint Russian-US project for the study
of the Sea of Okhotsk population of gray whales off Sakhalin and
bowheads in the Shanter Islands region (collaborating with Robert
Brownell and Bernd Wursig).
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Erich Hoyt,
Project Co-Director, is a WDCS
Senior Research Fellow and a member of IUCN Species Survival Comission / Cetacean Specialist Group. He worked with orcas in British Columbia
beginning in the 1970s (as told in his book Orca: The Whale Called
Killer) and has written numerous papers and reports
on marine conservation and whale watching worldwide. Some of his
other books are Marine Protected Areas for Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises, Whale Rescue, Seasons of the Whale, Creatures of the Deep, The
Earth Dwellers, and Whales, Dolphins, Porpoises (with M. Carwardine,
P. Gill and E. Fordyce). A Canadian-American, he now lives in Scotland.
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Hal Sato, Principal
Investigator, initiated photo-ID studies of minke and Bryde's whales
in Japan, as well as photo-ID work and whale watch education in
Nemuro Strait (northeast Hokkaido Island near Japanese-Russian frontier).
She has six summers' orca research experience doing mainly land-based
acoustic pod/sub pod recognition and acoustic tracking of pod movements
in British Columbia. She has helped to research, promote and support
whale watching in Japan - writing, editing and translating many
materials into Japanese.
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Olga Filatova, PhD, is Research Fellow at the Faculty of Biology, Moscow State
University, working on orca sound recording
and analysis. Her scientific interests extend to acoustic communication
in mammals.
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Karina Tarasyan, PhD, in 2000-2005 she investigated orca ecology
and analyzed the behavior patterns of orcas in the central Avacha
Gulf area, and also took part in the project on humpback whales near Komandor Islands. Her scientific interests include ecology and behavior
of cetaceans.
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Ekatherina Jikia
is a graduate student working on her PhD in genetic
studies at the Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University. She
received her MSc in Zoology at the Department of Vertebrate Zoology,
also in the MSU Faculty of Biology. Her scientific interests focus on the behavior and the genetic structure of
marine mammal populations.
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Tatyana Ivkovich is a graduate student of the Faculty of Biology, St. Petersbourgh State
University. She leads our photoidentification program and studies social structure and demography of killer whales. Her scientific interests include
social behavior and population structure of mammals.
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Ivan
Fedutin is Research Associate in the Central Forest State Nature Biosphere
Reserve. In FEROP he works as an acoustic technician, boat driver, and analyses sound recordings.
His scientific interests include behaviour and communication
in cetaceans.
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Ilya Shevchenko is Research Associate in the Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO). Before 2006 he worked in the Kamchatka
Branch of Pacific Institute of Geography. He studied sea otters
on the Komandor Islands and took part in the project on bowhead whales
in the Shantarskye Islands. In 2003, 2005 and 2006, he coordinated field work and also worked as a boat-driver.
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Alexandr Volkov is a PhD student in the
Far-Eastern State University. He analysed the abundance of killer
whales in Avacha Gulf by mark-recapture method, and took part in the project on humpback whales near Komandor Islands.
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Mikhail Nagailik is a student in the Faculty of
Biology, Moscow State University. He analyses the acoustic behaviour of killer whales.
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Evgenya Lazareva is a graduate student in the Faculty of
Biology, Moscow State University. For her bachelor's degree she investigated echolocation of beluga whales in the White Sea. Since 2005, she works on killer whale echolocation.
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Evgeny Dergachev is a graduate student in the
Far-Eastern State University. In 2004, and in 2006, he worked in the land-observer's team.
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Vladimir Konoplev is a student from St. Petersburg, who was interested in orcas from his childhood. In 2006, he worked as a volunteer in the land-observer's team.
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Mikhail Kislin is a student in the Faculty of
Biology, St. Petersburgh State University. In 2006, he worked in the land-observer's team.
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Egor Aksyonov is a student in the Faculty of
Biology, St. Petersburgh State University. Since 2007, he works in FEROP.
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Julia Zakharova is a student in the Moscow State Academy of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology. Since 2007, she works in FEROP. |
