Robin W. Baird

Robin Baird is a biologist who has been studying whales and dolphins since the mid-1980s. Originally from British Columbia, Canada, he did his Ph.D. at Simon Fraser University on the foraging ecology and behavior of mammal-eating killer whales. Shortly after his Ph.D. he worked in Mexico for 8 months before spending a year as an itinerant biologist, working on cruises in the Antarctic, off the B.C. coast, and working on a research project in New Zealand. In 1996 he started a post-doc at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, working on killer whales both in Iceland and back in B.C., as well as with northern bottlenose whales in The Gully, offshore of Nova Scotia. From there he moved to Hawaii in December 1998, spent six months in Cambridge England in 2000, went back to Hawaii for field work over the winter of 2000/2001, then moved to Beaufort, North Carolina, to work with NOAA Fisheries for almost two and a half years, all the while keeping up his research both in Hawaii and with killer whales in the Pacific Northwest. Since September 2003 he has lived in Olympia, Washington, working as a research biologist with Cascadia Research Collective, a non-profit research and education organization. He can be reached at rwbaird (at) cascadiaresearch.org