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 Tom
Norris is a senior scientist with
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) in San Diego
and has over 18 years of experience specializing in marine vertebrate
ecology and behavioral biology, marine bioacoustics, and most recently,
the development of new technologies to study large marine animals. Tom
has served as a principle investigator and scientific consultant on a
variety of university and government sponsored research projects
including studies of the acoustic behaviors of humpback whales, fin,
blue whales, killer whales, sperm whales and dolphins. He has developed
an acoustic tag to track and collect data from large marine vertebrates
in real-time and has been involved in a variety of efforts to develop
and use towed hydrophone arrays to study cetaceans.
Norris has worked on several applied projects to
reduce the impacts of man-made noise on living marine resources. These
includes work on a marine animal monitoring and mitigation effort for
the USS Winston Churchill shock trials and a marine mammal mitigation
program for the R/V Ewing (the geo-seismic research vessel operated by
the NSF and Columbia University's Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory).
Most recently Mr. Norris has served as the team leader for passive
acoustic studies as part of the Mineral Management Service's Sperm Whale
Seismic Study (SWSS) in the Gulf of Mexico. He also is working with
NOAA's Northwest Fisheries Science Center's marine mammal program to
develop and use passive acoustic methods to survey and track killer
whales along the outer coast of the Pacific Northwest.
Mr. Norris received a graduate degree in Marine
Science from Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in Monterey Bay, CA. He
holds a federal research permit to conduct tagging on a variety of
federally protected and endangered species of whales and is an active
member of several professional and scientific research societies,
including the Acoustical Society of America (where he is a member of the
Animal Bioacoustics Technical Committee) and the Society of Marine
Mammalogy. When he isn't at sea, he is usually in the water surfing or
thinking about surfing.
Email:
t.norris@conservationinstitute.org
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