Angela Szesciorka, PhD

Dr. Angela Szesciorka is research associate the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. She is also a faculty affiliate in the Marine Mammal Institute at Oregon State University. She is interested in whale momvement and bioacoustics and the threats whales face in human- and climate-impacted ecosystems. Dr. Szesciorka earned her Ph.D. in Oceanography as a Dr. Nancy Foster Scholar from Scripps Institution of Oceanography and her M.Sc. in Marine Science from Moss Landing Marine Laboratories. She has been studying whales from the Pacific to the Arctic for more than 10 years. When she's not in the field or analyzing data, Dr. Szesciorka can be found watching horror movies with extremely salty popcorn, riding roller coasters at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, and going to baseball games.