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John Moran

Research Fisheries Biologist
Auke Bay Laboratories
Recruitment, Energetics, and Coastal Assessment Program
Humpback Whales
Office: (907) 321-4476
Email: john.moran@noaa.gov

John Moran

Research Fisheries Biologist

John Moran is a research fisheries biologist at NOAA’s Auke Bay Laboratories in Juneau, Alaska. He received a M.S. from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in fisheries and completed his undergraduate studies in zoology and marine biology at the University of New Hampshire. John has worked across Alaska (Southeast, Kodiak, Bristol Bay, Prince William Sound, and the North Slope) studying fish, birds, and mammals. Currently he is focusing his efforts on the impacts of recovering humpback whale populations on Pacific herring and the effects of whale watching on humpback whales.