We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Shane Gero will be joining us at our 2026 Wild Ocean Science Event.

In 2005, Dr. Gero founded The Dominica Sperm Whale Project, an innovative and integrative long-term behavioral study of sperm whales in the Eastern Caribbean. He documents the social and vocal behavior of over 20 sperm whale units. Through thousands of hours of observation, he has come to know the whales as different individuals, as brothers and sisters, as mothers and babysitters, and as a community of families, each with their own way of doing things, living together in the Caribbean Sea.

Dr. Gero is also the Biology Lead for Project CETI, a non-profit organization and TED Audacious Project applying advanced machine learning and gentle robotics to decipher sperm whale communication. He has talked for National Geographic and TEDx stages and his writing has appeared in the New York Times; and most recently in James Cameron’s Emmy award winning Secrets of the Whales from Disney and National Geographic.

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