Studying Cook Inlet beluga whales with help from FINS
Our latest student feature highlighting the use of the FINS award is with Arial Brewer, PhD student in the Berdahl and Van Cise labs.
With the FINS award, I was able to use it for two different purposes – one involving presenting my research at a conference, and the other conducting fieldwork in Alaska.
In Spring 2023, I traveled to Olympia, WA and presented my research at The Wildlife Society conference in Olympia. I was also able to use the award to conduct fieldwork in Alaska over a 3 week period. The project I worked on involved attaching acoustic tags to the the beluga whale population in the Cook Inlet. The aim of the research is to better understand foraging behavior in this species and the effects of anthropogenic noise.
