Kate Stafford
Kate Stafford is a principal oceanographer in the applied physics laboratory at the University of Washington. Stafford’s research focuses on the use of passive acoustic monitoring to study geographic and seasonal variation of large whale species. Much of her research has focused on the geographic and seasonal occurrence of large whales based on sound production and the integration of these data with environmental variables to develop predictive models of large whale occurrence based on their environment. Currently, most of her work is based in polar regions including Davis Strait, Fram Strait, the Antarctic, and the Beaufort and Bering Seas.