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Jessica V. Redfern, PhD
Associate Vice President
Ocean Conservation Science, Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean LifeEducation
PhD, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management; University of California, Berkeley, 2002
About
Dr. Jessica Redfern is a senior scientist and chair of the Spatial Ecology, Mapping, and Assessment program (EcoMap) at the Anderson Cabot Center. The goal of this program is to assess risk to marine species from human use and climate change. The program uses innovative monitoring and modeling techniques to provide a framework for internal and external collaborators to develop solutions to marine conservation challenges. Examples of the conservation challenges that this program addresses include ship strikes, chronic noise, entanglement, and minimizing impacts of wind energy.
Dr. Redfern develops cetacean-habitat models and uses predictions from these models to assess risk to cetaceans. Her current projects include assessing the risk of ships striking whales in areas with high shipping traffic around the world, developing methods to assess entanglement risk, identifying priority habitat for large whales, and using oceanographic data to interpret trends in the abundance of cetaceans.
Featured Research
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Effects of changing temperature phenology on the abundance of a critically endangered baleen whale
Aquarium Affiliate Author(s): Laura Ganley, Ph.D., Dan Pendleton, Ph.D., Jessica V. Redfern, PhD
Published October 01, 2022 -
Repatriation of a historical North Atlantic right whale habitat during an era of rapid climate change
Aquarium Affiliate Author(s): Orla O’Brien, Dan Pendleton, Ph.D., Laura Ganley, Ph.D., Katherine McKenna, Scott Kraus, PhD, Jessica V. Redfern, PhD
Published July 20, 2022 -
Identifying predictors of species diversity to guide designation of marine protected areas
Aquarium Affiliate Author(s): Dan Pendleton, Ph.D., Laura Ganley, Ph.D., Orla O’Brien, Scott Kraus, PhD, Jessica V. Redfern, PhD
Published March 03, 2022
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