The Team

HALLO formed and began research efforts in 2019. Since then, we’ve been working on several objectives that work towards developing the real-time whale forecasting system in the Salish Sea.

Team photo -- November 2024
Team photo – November 2024

Researchers

Dr Ruth Joy, Principal Investigator

  • School of Environmental Science, Simon Fraser University

Dr Mike Dowd

  • Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University

Fabio Frazao

  • Department of Computer Science, Dalhousie University

Dr Bruno Padovese

  • School of Environmental Science, Simon Fraser University

Teng-Wei Lin

  • School of Environmental Science, Simon Fraser University

Dr Peter Thompson

  • School of Environmental Science, Simon Fraser University

Dr Farid Jedari-Eyvazi

  • Dalhousie University

Dr Oliver Kirsebom

  • Open Ocean Robotics

Dr Kait Palmer

  • Ocean Associates with NOAA Fisheries

Dr Bret Nestor

  • University of British Columbia

Dr Nadege Fonvieille

  • School of Environmental Science, Simon Fraser University

Dr Scott Viers

  • OrcaSound Collective, Beam Reach Marine Science and Sustainability School

Dr Val Viers

  • OrcaSound Collective, Beam Reach Marine Science and Sustainability School

Dr Harald Yurk

  • Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Collaborators

OceanWise

  • Alex Mitchell

Raincoast Conservation Foundation

  • Janine McNeilly, Valeria Vergara

OrcaSound and Acartia

  • Dr Valentina Staneva, Dr Scott Veirs, Dr Val Veirs

WSANEC / QENTOL,YEN Marine Guardians

  • Shelly Kemp, Rachel Fairfield Checko

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

  • Dr Harald Yurk, Lucy Quayle, Dr Sheila Thornton, Dr John Ford

SMRU Consulting

  • Dr Jason Wood

JASCO Applied Sciences

  • Dr Jennifer Wladichuk, April Houweling, David Hannay

Ocean Networks Canada

  • Dr Benoit Pirenne, Dr Lanfranco Muzi, Lynn Rannankari

Saturna Island Marine Research and Education Society (SIMRES)

  • Dr. Martin Wale, Maureen Welton, Susie Washington-Smyth

Royal Canadian Navy

  • Dugald Thompson
  • Carolyn Binder

Digital Research Alliance of Canada (SFU’s Research Computing Group)

  • Andrei Vassilenko, Dr. Alireza Ensan, Ishan Sahay, Chloe Zhu, Junbin Zhang, Jillian Anderson