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Carissa King-Nolan

Carissa King-Nolan is an Assistant Marine Conservation Scientist with the Ocean Giants Program at WCS. She works on analyzing archived acoustic recordings from the WCS, WHOI, and Equinor PAM program in the Equinor Wind Lease 0512 area, assessing the habitat use and behavior of cetaceans in the NYB, and managing the WCS humpback whale catalog. Carissa’s main research interests include bioacoustics and marine mammal behavioral ecology. She is particularly interested in how anthropogenic activity and sound influence marine mammal behavior. Carissa completed her M.S. in Biology at the University of North Florida assessing bottlenose dolphin habitat use patterns and the soundscape of the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida. She has authored or co-authored several peer-reviewed journal articles, conference presentations, and technical reports.