DR SHANNON LEONE FOWLER

My PhD research at the University of California at Santa Cruz focused on the development of diving in Australian sea lions. After my doctorate, I worked as a marine mammal biologist in Antartica and the Arctic, as a science writer and mass media fellow at National Public Radio in Washington DC, taught a college-accredited course on killer whale acoustics in the San Juans Islands, and worked as a seal biologist and field tutor studying Weddell seals on the Ross Ice Shelf for the University of Canterbury and Antartica New Zealand. 
My current research as a Daphne Jackson fellow at the University of Roehampton focuses on ageing in black-legged kittiwakes on Middleton Island, Alaska- unravelling the mysteries of how elderly seabirds keep flying, diving and thriving when they should be retiring.