Shane Gero
Scientist-in-Residence
Faculty of Science
Department of Biology
Ottawa, Ontario
shane@thespermwhaleproject.org
Mobile:
(613) 552-8085
Bio/Research
Gero is the founder of the The Dominica Sperm Whale Project, a long-term research program focused on the sperm whale families living in the Eastern Caribbean. Since 2005, He has spent thousands of hours in the company of whale families learning unprecedented details about the lives of these enigm...
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Bio/Research
Gero is the founder of the The Dominica Sperm Whale Project, a long-term research program focused on the sperm whale families living in the Eastern Caribbean. Since 2005, He has spent thousands of hours in the company of whale families learning unprecedented details about the lives of these enigmatic ocean nomads. He put computers on sperm whales to study their communication, the origins of culture, and to get people to protect their deep ocean home.
His research is motivated by a desire to understand animal societies, how and why they form, and sadly, by necessity, what happens when they fall apart.
He is also the Biology Lead for Project CETI, a non-profit organization and TED Audacious Project applying advanced machine learning and gentle robotics to decipher sperm whale communication.
In addition to visiting schools, Gero frequently speaks about his science, the whale’s stories, and conservation of our oceans, at museums and universities around the world; and recently on the National Geographic and TEDx stages. His writing has appeared in the New York Times; and my research has been featured in magazines and on television, most recently in James Cameron’s Emmy award winning Secrets of the Whales from Disney and National Geographic.
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His research is motivated by a desire to understand animal societies, how and why they form, and sadly, by necessity, what happens when they fall apart.
He is also the Biology Lead for Project CETI, a non-profit organization and TED Audacious Project applying advanced machine learning and gentle robotics to decipher sperm whale communication.
In addition to visiting schools, Gero frequently speaks about his science, the whale’s stories, and conservation of our oceans, at museums and universities around the world; and recently on the National Geographic and TEDx stages. His writing has appeared in the New York Times; and my research has been featured in magazines and on television, most recently in James Cameron’s Emmy award winning Secrets of the Whales from Disney and National Geographic.
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