Lindy Weilgart
Research Associate, Department of Biology, Dalhousie University; Scientific Adviser, International Ocean Noise Coalition.
Last Contribution:
Noise Pollution Reaches the Oceans
Contributor Biography
Dr. Weilgart has been specializing in underwater noise pollution and its effects on cetaceans for the past 16 years. Her M.Sc. (Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland), Ph.D (Dalhousie), and post-doctoral studies (Cornell) were all in the field of cetacean acoustic communication in the wild. She has studied whales for 27 years, primarily sperm whales.
She spent one year sailing 50,000 km across the Pacific and back in a 13 m sailboat following groups of sperm whales for her post-doctoral research on dialects. Her then five year-old son and 10 month-old daughter accompanied her.
She has served as invited expert on several panels, workshops, and committees concerned with underwater noise impacts (i.e. Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada, U.S. Marine Mammal Commission, International Whaling Commission, etc.). She has met with members of NATO, the European Parliament, the European Commission DG Fisheries, and the United Nations to discuss and conduct lectures on ocean noise issues, and others, and published numerous peer-reviewed papers.
She is currently a Research Associate in the Department of Biology at Dalhousie University, as well as a Scientific Adviser for both the private foundation Okeanos, and the International Ocean Noise Coalition.
