Doug Sandilands is a researcher and Level 5 large whale entanglement responder at Cascadia Research. Doug began his career at the Vancouver Aquarium in 2000 where he helped establish the BC Cetacean Sightings Network and co-founded Cetus Research and Conservation Society in 2005. He joined the Center for Coastal Studies in 2011, specializing in large whale and sea turtle entanglement response. Doug moved to Washington State in 2017 to work with SR3 and helped to foster the West Coast Large Whale Entanglement Response Network. After a second stint at the Center for Coastal Studies, Doug joined Cascadia Research in the spring of 2024 and is co-directing a new collaborative partnership focused on West Coast whale entanglement research, response, and training housed at Cascadia. Doug has worked on cetacean research projects in British Columbia, the Gulf of Maine, the US West Coast and American Samoa.
