Dr. Rachel Cartwright
Dr. Rachel Cartwright is the lead researcher and a founding member of the Keiki Koholā Project, a small grass roots research group based on Maui, Hawaii. Rachel holds a PhD in Conservation Biology. She spent 15 years teaching at California State University Channel Islands, before returning to her field-based roots.
Dr. Rachel Cartwright is the lead researcher for the Keiki Koholā Project, a small grass roots research group based on Maui, Hawaii. Originally founded by a group of concerned boat captains and naturalists, the Keiki Kohola Project focuses on issues that impact humpback mothers and their young calves during their time in Hawaiian waters, by providing management-based research that can contribute to the protection of humpback whale mother-calf pairs.
