Peter Corkeron, Ph.D.

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Education

B.Sc., Zoology, The University of Queensland, 1982
Ph.D., The University of Queensland, 1989

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Peter Corkeron, Ph.D., now leads the whale research team at the Kraus Marine Mammal Conservation Program of the Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life. His current work focuses on the status of North Atlantic right whales, understanding the anthropogenic drivers of their decline and the ecological influences on their movements, and ensuring that management efforts are informed by the best science available. Peter’s Ph.D. was on the ecology of inshore dolphins in the waters off Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Awarded by the University of Queensland in 1989, it was the first Australian Ph.D. on the biology of living cetaceans.

Peter has studied whales, dolphins, dugongs, and seals, with occasional forays into the behavior of fruit bats and wallabies. His research has taken him from the Ross Sea in Antarctica to within 300 miles of the North Pole, and many places in between. He believes in using science to understand how we impact marine wildlife, and the working to solve the problems we create.