Taylor A. Hersh
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ABOUT ME

I am a postdoc in the Lab for Animal Behavioural Interaction Research In the Ocean (LABIRINTO) and the Marine Mammal Bioacoustics and Ecology Lab (MMBEL). Both groups are based at the Marine Mammal Institute of Oregon State University (Newport, Oregon, USA). With LABIRINTO, I am studying bottlenose dolphin social communication during cooperative foraging events. With MMBEL, I am working on new methods for bowhead whale song analysis. Previously, I was a postdoc with the Comparative Bioacoustics Group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Nijmegen, Netherlands), where I studied animal communication in various systems, including sperm whales, African penguins, harbor seals, and domestic dogs. I received my Ph.D. in Biology from Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) in 2022. For my thesis, I investigated spatial and temporal variation in sperm whale coda dialects and was supervised by Dr. Hal Whitehead. In 2014, I received a B.Sc. in Biological Sciences and Psychology with a minor in environmental science from Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA). 
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MY PATH TO BIOACOUSTICS

During and after my B.Sc., I held a number of internships, jobs, and field assistantships. These positions, which ranged from sea turtle rehabilitation to deep sea squid genetics research, allowed me to gain technical experience in various disciplines. My work with both the Cedar Key Dolphin Project (Crystal River, Florida, United States) and the San Antonio Model Bay Project (Las Grutas, Argentina) convinced me that  bioacoustics was the field for me. During my Ph.D., I assisted with two additional cetacean field studies: the Northern Bottlenose Whale Project and the Dominica Sperm Whale Project.
Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center (June - Aug 2011)
Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium (Dec 2011 - Jan 2012)
Menemsha Fish Market (May - Aug 2012)
Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (June - Aug 2013)
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (June - Sept 2014)
Cascadia Research Collective (Sept - Dec 2014)
Institute for Marine Mammal Studies (Jan - May 2015)
Cedar Key Dolphin Project (May - June 2015)
San Antonio Model Bay Project (Aug - Sept 2015)
Animal Welfare Institute (Nov 2015 - Apr 2016)
Northern Bottlenose Whale Project (June - July 2016)
Dominica Sperm Whale Project
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