Taylor Hersh

Postdoctoral Scholar
she/her

hersht@oregonstate.edu

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Biography
Research/Career Interests: 

I am a bioacoustician broadly interested in the interplay among vocal complexity, social complexity, and culture in animals. Much of my past research has focused on measuring how animal communication varies over space and time, as well as developing new methods for classifying vocalizations and deducing population structure from acoustic data. As a postdoctoral research in LABIRINTO and MMBEL, I am investigating dolphin social communication during intraspecific cooperative foraging tasks and bowhead whale song diversity in different populations.

Education: 
Ph.D., Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
B.Sc., Biology & Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Professional Preparation: 
Postdoctoral Researcher, Comparative Bioacoustics Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Research Project Coordinator, Comparative Bioacoustics Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
At OSU
Affiliated with: 
Laboratory for Animal Behavioral Interaction Research (LABIRINTO)
Marine Mammal Bioacoustics and Ecology Laboratory
Marine Mammal Institute
Headquarters: 
Hatfield Marine Science Center
Beyond OSU
My Publications