From Poop to Policy: What Feces Can Tell Us About Health of Southern Endangered Killer Whales
Deborah Giles (she goes by Giles) is Science and Research Director at the non-profit Wild Orca. Her PhD from the University of California Davis focused on the federally listed Southern Resident killer whale. Giles and her team utilize a scat-detection dog to locate floating killer whale scat to monitor the physiological health of Southern Resident killer whales. Giles is also a killer whale scientific adviser for the Orca Salmon Alliance, a program advisor for Killer Whale Tales, and she is the co-founder of the San Juan Island Naturalist Program.
