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Kelsey Howe

Kelsey Howe

Associate Research Scientist
Kraus Marine Mammal Conservation Program, Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life

Education

BA, Biology and History, Bowdoin College, 2010

About

Kelsey Howe is an Associate Research Scientist and the operational lead for data collection and science integration with the Kraus Marine Mammal Conservation Program. She currently leads vessel-based, right whale-focused fieldwork operations in Cape Cod Bay and the Gulf of St. Lawrence and holds a USCG Captain’s License. Prior to this current position, she spent years helping to maintain the Right Whale Photo-Identification Catalog. Kelsey started working for the program in the Bay of Fundy as a summer field intern back in 2011, was brought on full time in 2016, and has been a part of dozens of right whale field seasons from Florida all the way up to Canada for more than 15 years.

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Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life

Through pioneering conservation research and strategic partnerships, our team of 40 scientists works to combat the unprecedented impacts on the ocean from climate change and other human activities.

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