Harbour porpoise (Pacific Ocean population) COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 14

Biographical Summary of the Report Writer

Robin W. Baird received his Ph.D. in Biology from Simon Fraser University in 1994, with his thesis focusing on the foraging behaviour and ecology of killer whales in southern British Columbia. In 1987 he co-founded a cetacean stranding program in British Columbia, and co-coordinated this program until the mid-1990s, during which time he collected samples for life history, population discrimination and diet studies, and studied causes of mortality of harbour porpoise and other species in the province. Dr. Baird has been involved in tagging and tracking studies of harbour porpoise in Washington State, is currently a Post-doctoral Fellow at Dalhousie University. He works with Cascadia Research Collective in Olympia, Washington.

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