Speaker: Dr. Aaron Rice
Title: Calling Whales and Chorusing Fishes as Sentinels of Human Influence on Marine Ecosystems
Date and Time: Tuesday, June 9, 2020 at 7:30 PM
Bio: Dr. Aaron N. Rice is Principal Ecologist at the Center for Conservation Bioacoustics in the Cornell Lab of Ornithology at Cornell University. His research focuses on the ecology and evolution of acoustic communication in aquatic vertebrates, and how bioacoustics can provide actionable conservation information for managing vulnerable species. He leads the research efforts focused on bioacoustic and ecological analyses of marine animals in diverse projects ranging from the U.S. Atlantic Coast (from Maine to Florida), Africa, Bermuda, Philippines, Gulf of Mexico, Australia, and Arctic waters. In 2014, he was awarded the Partners in Conservation Award from the U.S. Department of Interior for using bioacoustic approaches in protected species’ population assessments While most of his research efforts are on fish and whales, he has current grants and bioacoustics publications on birds, amphibians, rodents, and soundscapes. Aaron has a B.S. from Davison College, a Master's from the Boston University Marine Program, a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and did his postdoc at Cornell.