Jenn Tackaberry

Jenn Tackaberry is a Research Biologist with Cascadia Research Collective, and one of a handful of entanglement responders with the highest level of authorization under NOAA Fisheries within the West Coast Large Whale Entanglement Response Network. She is co-directing a new collaborative initiative focused on West Coast large whale entanglement research, response, and training housed at Cascadia Research. Jenn started studying marine mammals twenty years ago and received her Master's degree from Moss Landing Marine Laboratories at San Jose State University. Her work focuses primarily on humpback whales, but she also works with many other baleen whale species. Her work experience includes long-term population and behavioral studies, behavioral and movement analysis of bio-logger data, and entanglement response and research.