Jenn Tackaberry is a Research Biologist with Cascadia Research and a Level 5 responder for the West Coast Large Whale Entanglement Response Network. She is co-directing a new collaborative initiative focused on West Coast whale entanglement research, response, and training housed at Cascadia. Jenn started studying marine mammals in 2004 and received her Master’s degree from Moss Landing Marine Laboratories at San Jose State University. Her work focuses primarily on humpback whales, but she also works with many other baleen whale species, including blue, fin, sei, grey, minke, and NA right whales. Jenn mainly works on the foraging grounds along the US West Coast and the Gulf of Maine, but she has spent short stints on the breeding grounds around American Samoa, Dominica Republic, and Maui. Her work experience includes long-term population and behavioral studies, behavioral and movement analysis of biologger data, and entanglement response and research.
