About Me
Dr. Angela Szesciorka is a contractor for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation and the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. She is also a faculty affiliate in the Marine Mammal Institute at Oregon State University. She is interested in whale migration, ecology, 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 along the U.S. West Coast and the Pacific 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.