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The Team
Meet the Seal Watch Team!
Dr Catherine Foley
Catherine is Fishery Biologist at NOAA. Her research for Seal Watch focuses on the recovery of Southern Ocean seal and penguin populations following historical harvesting. Using a data fusion approach, her research combines satellite imagery, drone imagery, time-lapse photographs, and in-situ surveys to investigate how breeding systems influence population dynamics and to monitor these populations in near real-time.
Follow her on Twitter at @cmrfoley.
Dr Tom Hart
Tom is a penguinologist and research fellow at the University of Oxford. When he is not making up silly job titles, he is researching the threats to sea birds and marine mammals and how to mitigate them. He has two main interests: population genetics to study the population structure and movement in relation to climate change and using time-lapse cameras to study the timing of breeding. Much like a supercomputer, he gets smarter in colder temperatures. As a consequence, he can often be found thinking in polar regions.
Follow him (@penguin_watch) on Twitter and Instagram
Dr Katrina Davis
Katrina is an Associate Professor in Conservation Biology at the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow in Biology at Balliol College. Her research investigates how seal and sea lion populations affect and are affected by fisheries, and how these populations will likely respond to future management and climate changes. Her research group uses drones to collect annual population data for seal and sea lion populations in the UK and parts of South America to model changes in these populations through time.
The Zooniverse
The Zooniverse is the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research. This research is made possible by volunteers—hundreds of thousands of people around the world who come together to assist professional researchers. Our goal is to enable research that would not be possible, or practical, otherwise. Zooniverse research results in new discoveries, data sets useful to the wider research community, and many publications.
Check out the team of researchers and developers responsible for the Zooniverse at www.zooniverse.org/about/team.
