35. Creating Cetacean Conservation - Joëlle De Weerdt

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Joëlle is a Belgian marine marine biologist pursuing a PhD in
Marine biology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. She
started her career as a marine mammal biologist in 2010 and
started her own research project with the non-profit organization
Association ELI-S (@Eli.scientific) she founded in 2016. The
Cetacean conservation project of Nicaragua is a community-based
conservation project based on a scientific program that gathers
baseline data on whales and dolphins occurring along the pacific
coast of Nicaragua (Central America). Implying local communities
in her project is, according to her, essential for environmental
conservation. With her PhD she wants to understand population
dynamics, distribution and habitat use patterns of cetaceans and
especially humpback whales.


In this episode Jill and Joelle talk all about Joelles
interesting path to her PhD, and some difficulty faced along the
way! 


Check out more from Joelle: (@Joelle.DW)


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