A native of the Vancouver area, Jen graduated in Marine Biology from the University of British Columbia, and is now completing her PhD at the University of Bath. Her PhD research is focussed on how gray whales find food in the murky waters they inhabit. She will be studying the whales' use of sound in the noisy nearshore environment, specifically first quantifying the nearshore soundscape, then testing the hypothesis that the whales are using an acoustic technique called synthetic aperture (essentially comparing successive echoes to build up a map of their surroundings). She has been with CERF since 2003, and was last year appointed Director of Operations.
Conference Presentations
Wladichuk JL, Megill WM, Blondel P
(2008) Passive echolocation techniques of eastern Pacific grey whales and biomimetic applications. Presentation to the 9th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics (Acoustics 08), Paris, July 2008
Wladichuk JL, Megill WM, Blondel P
(2007) A bioinspired approach to sound localisation in the underwater coastal environment. Presentation to the 2nd International Conference on Underwater Acoustic Measurement Techniques and Results, Crete, Greece, June 2007
Wladichuk JL, Megill WM, Blondel P
(2007) A bioinspired approach to sound localisation in the underwater coastal environment. Sound in the ocean, Vancouver, October 2007
Reports
Megill WM, Kurth S, Wladichuk JL
(2006) Report on cetacean research activities at Cape Caution, British Columbia, summer 2004. Report prepared for Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Megill WM, Wladichuk JL, Kurth S
(2006) Grey whales, Eschrichtius robustus, near Cape Caution, British Columbia, during the summer of 2005. Report prepared for NMFS, National Marine Mammal Lab, Seattle WA
