An incredible opportunity appeared in my inbox in August 2023. I got invited to give a TED talk in Cape May, New Jersey. The only problem? It was in two months, and they needed a quick response. That’s how I ended up giving a TED talk, two weeks after defending my PhD! While in Iceland, …
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I am currently in Iceland with the Icelandic Orca Project. My collaborator, Dr. Filipa Samarra, sent me the samples I used in the first chapter of my PhD thesis. We studied the impact of diet preferences on the accumulation of toxic contaminants in Icelandic killer whales. You can find the recap of our previous study …
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I have gone back to the lab a couple of times in the last few months, mainly to extract fatty acids from potential prey items of Icelandic and Norwegian killer whales. It has been a lot of fun, but I missed killer whale blubber. Back in December 2021, I extracted and quantified fatty acids in …