SeaDoc Society Adds a New Scientist!
The SeaDoc Society has hired a new full-time veterinary translational scientist, who will join the team on Orcas Island starting this summer.
Dr. Michelle Barbieri Lino, who interned with SeaDoc as a veterinary student back in 2009, monitoring the marine mammal stranding network among other roles, will be moving to Orcas Island with her husband and 7-year-old daughter this summer.
Lino and her family currently live on Oʻahu, where she formally led National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program. She has played a key role in the recovery of the species since 2012, helping to reverse the endangered population’s decline.
Lino’s addition to the SeaDoc team comes just one year after the local nonprofit merged with Wild Orca, bringing respected Killer Whale Scientist Dr. Deborah Giles onto the team. In a time when US science funding is experiencing broad cuts, the SeaDoc Society is actively working to grow its impact.