Marie Zahn
USA
Bioacoustics Master’s Student
Marie's multidisciplinary background has fed her lasting interests in art and science, having worked in fields like filmmaking and manual therapy. Her love for the outdoors coupled with inspiring crew members has opened a career in environmental science with a special focus on polar regions most affected by climate change. For her undergraduate thesis, she worked with Indigenous communities in coastal British Columbia, studying the ethnobotany of western redcedar. After graduating Columbia University in 2016 with a B.A. in Environmental Biology, Marie worked seasonally in numerous remote field sites. Her longest deployments were as a biological technician studying Pacific salmon in Alaska and as a field science leader at Palmer Station, Antarctica studying microbiology and phytoplankton dynamics. She is now in a Master's program at the University of Washington studying beluga and narwhal bioacoustics with plans to continue on to a PhD.