Yamato Wins Award at Marine Mammal Biennial

Joint Program student Maya Yamato has won the John G. Shedd Award for the Overall Best Student Presentation at the 19th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals. Her talk, "The auditory anatomy of the minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata): Insights into potential sound reception pathways in a baleen whale," was co-authored by Darlene Ketten, Julie Arruda, Scott Cramer, and Kathleen Moore. Maya and her collaborators, "combined classical dissection with biomedical imaging techniques such as X-ray computerized tomography and magnetic resonance imaging to describe the anatomy of the minke whale head with a focus on the ear region."

Congratulations Maya!

Photo credit: Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology

PS.  Both Maya and I know that is not a minke whale.