Meet the Team

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Anne Simonis

	Dr. Anne Simonis is an acoustic ecologist, working as a NOAA research affiliate working at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center. Her research explores marine mammal acoustic behavior, foraging ecology, and human impacts, including ocean noise and fishery interactions.

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Cory Hom-Weaver

	Cory is an acoustic research biologist whose primary focus is studying marine mammal sounds in the California Current Ecosystem. She is a NOAA research affiliate working at Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, California.

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Shannon Rankin

	Shannon is a research fishery biologist who leads the Acoustic Ecology Lab at the NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center. She uses passive acoustic recordings to study marine mammals, and is the Principle Investigator of ADRIFT in the California Current, a large scale passive acoustic research project off the US West Coast.

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Taiki Sakai

	Taiki is an acoustic data scientist and NOAA research affiliate with the Southwest Fisheries Science Center. His work is focused on building software tools that help the acoustic ecology team analyze their data.

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Kourtney Burger

	Kourtney is an biological science technician with the Southwest Fisheries Science Center. She assists the acoustic ecology team with data prep, data archiving, along with general lab management and maintenance.

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Dagny Ysais

	Dagny is a masters student at San Francisco State University studying interdisciplinary marine and estuarine sciences. Her research involves the population changes in Pacific harbor seals and how the California droughts could be negatively affecting them. She has years of experience in education and citizen science working for local government offices and at the university.

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Bruny Mora

	Bruny works at the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve in education and outreach. He obtained his bachelor's degree at UC Santa Cruz in biology. Bruny works with the WATCH program where he helped pair high school students from underserved communities with marine science professionals and professors to work on a project.