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Studying great white sharks with Dr. Chris Lowe

Studying great white sharks with Dr. Chris Lowe

Jan 27, 2022

Dr. Chris Lowe is a professor in marine biology and director of the Shark Lab at California State University, Long Beach, where he and his students work with acoustic and satellite telemetry techniques to study the movement, behavior and physiology of sharks, rays and gamefishes. Dr. Lowe grew up on Martha’s Vineyard, where he spent a majority of his youth fishing and diving the waters around Cape Cod. He comes from a long line of New England fishermen and whalers and believes a career focused on the ocean environment was inevitable.

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Rachel Hendricks on the impacts of tobacco

Rachel Hendricks on the impacts of tobacco

Apr 7, 2021

Rachel Hendricks will be graduating from Davidson College in North Carolina in May of 2021. She studies biology and data science and will be working at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) as a National Institutes of Health (NIH) fellow following graduation. Rachel has spent the last two years as a student researcher for Dr. Karen Bernd exploring the toxicity and use patterns of waterpipe tobacco smoke (hookah) and other alternative tobacco products, and will share that work in this talk.

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Nancy Kinner on oil transport impacts

Nancy Kinner on oil transport impacts

Dec 15, 2020

Nancy Kinner, PhD, directs the University of New Hampshire’s Coastal Response Research Center and works on preventing environmental hazards. Here, she presents work on planning and mitigation for oil spills in the Bering Sea. 

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Citizen science and butterfly surveying with Spencer Eusden

Citizen science and butterfly surveying with Spencer Eusden

Nov 3, 2020

In this very special episode, meet our Program Director Spencer Eusden! Spencer graduated from Bowdoin College with a major in Biology and Environmental Studies. He has taught with Headwaters since its inception in 2014. In this talk you can hear about his research on butterflies as part of a citizen science project.

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