War of the Whales (60 page)
Authors: Joshua Horwitz
Roger Gentry
Head of acoustic research, Office of Protected Resources, NMFS.
Brandon Southall
Succeeded Roger Gentry as head of acoustic research, Office of Protected Resources, NMFS.
Penny Dalton
Assistant administrator for Fisheries, NOAA.
Bill Hogarth
Dalton’s successor as assistant administrator for Fisheries, NOAA.
Teri Rowles
National stranding coordinator.
Janet Whaley
Coordinator, Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program.
Blair Mase
Regional stranding coordinator for Southeast Fisheries Science Center.
Don Knowles
Director, Endangered Species Division, Office of Protected Resources.
Donna Wieting
Director, Office of Protected Resources, Marine Mammal Conservation Division.
Laurie Allen
Acting director, Office of Protected Resources.
Kenneth R. Hollingshead
Head of Permits and Conservation Division, Office of Protected Resources.
John Proni
Director of the Ocean Acoustics Division, NOAA.
Bob Brownell
Senior scientist, Southwest Fisheries Science Center.
Phil Clapham
Senior scientist, Northwest Fisheries Science Center.
US Navy
Fleet Command
Rear Admiral Richard Pittenger
Director of antisubmarine warfare for the Chief of Naval Operations; Oceanographer of the Navy; later vice president for marine operations, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Rear Admiral Craig Dorman
Program director, Antisubmarine Warfare; chief scientist at the Office of Naval Research; later director of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Admiral William Fallon
Commander, US Second Fleet.
Admiral Robert J. Natter
Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Plans, Policy and Operations (OPNAV N3/N5).
Vice Admiral Peter Daly
Deputy, N3/N5 (Operations, Plans and Strategy) in the Navy staff; deputy commander and chief of staff, US Fleet Forces Command.
Captain Philip G. Renaud, USN (ret.)
Executive director of the Living Oceans Foundation.
Office of Naval Research
Vice Admiral Paul G. Gaffney II
Chief of naval research, 1996 to 2000.
Bob Gisiner
Manager, Marine Bioacoustics Program.
Mel Briscoe
Director, Applied Oceanography and Acoustics Division.
Captain Paul Stewart
Deputy director of the Ocean Battlespace Sensing Department; later commanding officer, Naval Research Laboratory.
Fred Saalfeld
Deputy chief of naval research, 1993 to 2002.
Robert Frosch
Director of research programs for Hudson Laboratories of Columbia University in Dobbs Ferry, New York, under contract to the Office of Naval Research; technical director of Project Artemis, a very large experimental active sonar system development.
Jim MacEachern
Acoustician in charge of Littoral Warfare sea tests in the Bahamas in March 2000.
Steven Ramberg
Director of science and technology.
Joe Johnson
Program manager of Low Frequency Active sonar program from 1994 to 2004.
Glenn H. Mitchell
Engineer and biologist, Environmental Planning and Biological Analysis Division, Naval Undersea Warfare Center.
David Moretti
Marine mammal science lead, engineering, Test and Evaluation Department, Naval Undersea Warfare Center.
Office of Environmental Readiness (N-45)
Rear Admiral Larry Baucom
Director of the Navy’s Environmental Readiness, Energy and Safety Programs.
V. Frank Stone
Head of research and development, Navy’s Environmental Readiness, Energy and Safety Programs.
Marc Laverdiere
JAG attorney assigned to N-45.
Navy Secretariat
Richard Danzig
Secretary of the Navy from 1998 to 2001.
Robert Pirie
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Installations and Environment, from 1994 to 2000; later Undersecretary of the Navy and Acting Secretary of the Navy.
Steven S. Honigman
General counsel to the Navy, 1993 to 1998.
Craig Jensen
Assistant general counsel (Energy, Installations, and Environment).
Jeff Luster
Senior counsel, fleet and operational environmental law.
Scientists and Researchers
Oceanographers
Walter Munk
A physical oceanographer, professor of geophysics emeritus, and the Secretary of the Navy chair at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.
Sylvia Earle
An American oceanographer, explorer, inventor, author, and lecturer; the chief scientist at NOAA from 1990 to 1992; since 1998,
National Geographic
explorer-in-residence.
National Geographic
explorer-in-residence.
Marine Mammal Scientists
Darlene K
etten
etten
Senior scientist, Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; assistant professor, Department of Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School.
Peter Tyack
Senior scientist, Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Michael Moore
Senior research specialist, biology, forensic analysis, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Chris Clark
Director, Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Dan Costa
Professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Sam Ridgway
Veterinarian who later earned a PhD in neurobiology; one of the founders of the Navy Marine Mammal Program in 1961; editor of the
Handbook of Marine Mammals
.
Handbook of Marine Mammals
.
Bill Evans
Bioacoustician and early researcher in the Navy Marine Mammal Program.
Whitlow Au
Chief scientist, Marine Mammal Research Program, Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology; electrical engineer who has researched dolphin biosonar for the Navy Marine Mammal Program for decades.
Paul Nachtigall
Director, Marine Mammal Research Program, Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology. Experimental psychologist with research focus on bioacoustics and echolocation of dolphins and small whales.
Patrick Moore
Senior life scientist, National Marine Mammal Foundation.
Hal Whitehead
Professor, Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Lindy Weilgart
Research associate, Dalhousie University.
Ken Balcomb
Founder, executive director, and principal investigator, Center for Whale Research.
Diane Claridge
Co-founder and director, Bahamas Marine Mammal Research Organisation.
Dave Ellifrit
Field biologist, photo-identification specialist, Center for Whale Research.
John Durban
Research coordinator, Center for Whale Research; population ecologist, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries Service.
Naomi Rose
Senior scientist, Humane Society International; currently marine mammal scientist, Animal Welfare Institute.
Roger Payne
Biologist; humpback whale researcher; founder, Ocean Alliance.
Katy Payne
Humpback whale researcher when married to Roger Payne; founder, in 1999, of Elephant Listening Project at Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Jim Mead
Curator of marine mammals at Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, from 1972 to 2009; currently curator emeritus.
Charlie Potter
Collection manager, marine mammals, Smithsonian Institution.
Chris Parsons
Director of the research and education departments of the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust from 1998 to 2003.
Robin Baird
Beaked whale researcher at Cascadia Research Collective.
John Hall
Dolphin trainer for the Navy Marine Mammal Training Program; later marine mammal biologist at SeaWorld.
Howard Garrett
Co-founder and director, Orca Network.
Acousticians
Michael Stocker
Director, Ocean Conservation Research.
Jim Cummings
Founder, Acoustic Ecology Institute.
David Fromm
Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC; acoustics and computational physics leader on acoustic modeling of Bahamas stranding.
Bill Ellison
Founder, CEO, and chief scientist of Marine Acoustics; lead ONR contractor for acoustic assessments.
NRDC
Joel Reynolds
Senior attorney and head of Los Angeles office; later western director. Founder and director, NRDC’s Marine Mammal Protection Project.
Michael Jasny
Senior policy advocate; later director of NRDC’s Marine Mammal Protection Project.
Mitch Bernard
NRDC’s litigation director.
Jacob Scherr
Director, global strategy and advocacy.
John Adams
Founding director, executive director, and president from 1970 to 2006.
Andrew Wetzler
Senior attorney; later director of Land and Wildlife Program.
Annie Notthoff
Director, California advocacy, San Francisco.
Historians
D. Graham Burnette
Professor of history, Princeton University.
Gary Weir
Chief historian, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
Owen Coté
Associate director, Security Studies Program, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Naomi Oreskes
Professor of history and science studies at the University of California, San Diego; adjunct professor of geosciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
RECOMMENDED READING AND RESOURCES
Whales, it turns out, are terrific subjects for books, photographs, movies, and other media. So are submarines. Below is a concise selection of books, videos, and online resources I found particularly engaging and informative during my research for this book.
BOOKS
The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century
by D. Graham Burnette (University of Chicago Press, 2012) is a thought-provoking and fascinating chronicle of the scientific investigation of whales, by the rare scholar who’s a pleasure to read.
by D. Graham Burnette (University of Chicago Press, 2012) is a thought-provoking and fascinating chronicle of the scientific investigation of whales, by the rare scholar who’s a pleasure to read.
The most wide-ranging and best-illustrated book about the complex, conflicted relationship between cetaceans and Homo sapiens is still Richard Ellis’
Men and Whales
(Alfred A. Knopf, 1991).
Men and Whales
(Alfred A. Knopf, 1991).
An Ocean in Common: American Naval Officers, Scientists, and the Ocean Environment
by historian Gary E. Weir (Texas A&M University Press, 2001) is a comprehensive history of the US Navy’s patronage of oceanography in the twentieth century.
by historian Gary E. Weir (Texas A&M University Press, 2001) is a comprehensive history of the US Navy’s patronage of oceanography in the twentieth century.
Other books
Conservatives Without Conscience by John W. Dean
Mad Lizard Mambo by Rhys Ford
Resisting the Bad Boy by Duke, Violet
Menu for Romance by Kaye Dacus
Season of the Raven (A Servant of the Crown Mystery Book 1) by Denise Domning
Unseemly Science by Rod Duncan
Mistress of the Throne (The Mughal intrigues) by Ruchir, Gupta
Edge of Infinity by Jonathan Strahan
The Bawdy Basket by Edward Marston
