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Dr. Leila Hatch
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Primary: Host Researcher
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Resilient Planet
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Mission 5: The Rescue
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Science
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5 | 6 | 7 | 8
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Dr. Leila Hatch, NOAA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Ocean Noise Specialist, whale, pop-up, ocean, sound, Regional Marine Bioacoustic Coordinator, Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Boston, Massachusetts, environmental law, Dr. Chris Clark, Yale University, biology, genetics, Ithica, New York, Cornell University, human-created
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Teachers | Elementary Grades
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3/10/2008
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Stellwagen Banks National Marine Sanctuary
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From: Resilient Planet Mission 5: The Rescue |
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Dr. Leila Hatch Read about Dr. Leila Hatch, a Host Researcher from Operation: Resilient Planet. |
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Dr. Leila Hatch
Host Researcher,
Ocean Noise Specialist,
NOAA,
Scituate, MA
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Dr. Leila Hatch is the Regional Marine Bioacoustic Coordinator at Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary just off the coast of Boston, Massachusetts. As a bioacoustic specialist ("bio" meaning living, "acoustics" meaning sound), she combines her knowledge of science with environmental laws and policies to help protect the habitat of the animals who live and visit the sanctuary.
Leila's passion for nature started when she was a young girl growing up on a small farm in Ithaca, New York. When she wasn't looking after a menagerie of farm animals, she and her sister explored ponds and streams near her home, catching salamanders and frogs.
When Leila was in the tenth grade, her parents had a dinner party with a very special guest: Dr. Chris Clark, a bioacoustician. Talking with him, Leila was intrigued to learn about Dr. Clark's work of recording and analyzing the sounds made by whales. He suggested that she come to work in his laboratory during her summer vacations.
Summers at the acoustic lab solidified Leila's interest in whales and the sounds they make. After high school, Leila studied biology at Yale University. There she concentrated her studies on evolutionary biology and genetics. In her senior year, she worked on a project that identified the gender of humpback whales using genetics.
After obtaining her degree, Leila took the opportunity to experience some "Darwin Days", meaning she got out of the lab and textbooks to study nature first hand. She traveled to Hawai'i, California, Madagascar, and Australia. She eventually returned home to Ithaca, intent on becoming a whale researcher. She did her graduate work at Cornell University on evolutionary genetics of whales. Leila continued her studies in Washington, D.C. where she worked with the United States Congress to learn how our nations' laws work to protect plants and animals.
At Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Leila measures how human-created sounds affect the communication, feeding, and navigation of marine animals – particularly whales. She uses this information to design ways to lessen the impacts of the noise humans make in the oceans.
Leila finds whales and the sounds they make to be among the most beautiful, mysterious things she has ever seen and heard.
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