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Jennifer Tackaberry is a researcher and PhD candidate at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, affiliated with the Vertebrate Ecology Lab under Drs. Alison Stimpert and Gitte McDonald. Her work focuses on the feeding ecology and conservation of large baleen whales, particularly humpbacks in the Gulf of Maine. She combines demographic analysis with bio-logging data from satellite tags and long-term population datasets to explore cooperative feeding behaviors and ecological impacts.
She holds a Biology degree from Colby College (2004) and has over a decade of field experience with organizations like the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) and Cascadia Research Collective (CRC). Notably, she is one of five U.S. women permitted to lead disentanglement responses for baleen whales, having addressed over 50 entanglement cases. Her research extends to acoustic behavior in calves, epigenetic aging studies, and satellite tagging effects.
Funded by the Volgenau Foundation, her thesis integrates demographic and behavioral data to assess how life history influences feeding strategies. Her articles highlight themes such as vocal development in calves, post-delisting population dynamics, and the ecological consequences of entanglement. She collaborates across institutions, balancing fieldwork, data analysis, and conservation advocacy.
