North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica) COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 15

Biographical Summary of Report Writers

Moira Brown is a Senior Scientist at the New England Aquarium (Boston, Massachusetts) and a Scientific Advisor with the Canadian Whale Institute in Bolton, Ontario. She was a member of the Canadian North Atlantic and North Pacific Right Whale Recovery Teams and is a co-chair of the Canadian North Atlantic Right Whale Implementation Team. Her recent research includes population biology and demographics of right whales in Canadian waters since 1985 and US waters since 1997. She received a B.Ed and B.Sc from McGill University and a Ph.D. from the University of Guelph.

Miriam O is a biologist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada at the Pacific Biological Station in Nanaimo, British Columbia. She is co-author of the National Recovery Strategy for the North Pacific Right Whale (Eubalaena japonica) in Pacific Canadian Waters. She received a B.Sc from the University of British Columbia and an M.Sc from Memorial University of Newfoundland.

John Ford is a Research Scientist at the Pacific Biological Station, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, in Nanaimo, British Columbia. He received B.Sc and Ph.D. degrees from the University of British Columbia.

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