Dr Liz Slooten is New Zealand's leading authority on the use of population modelling to estimate sustainable levels of marine mammal bycatch in fishing operations. Her teaching and research interests include a wide range of scientific approaches to ensuring that intentional and unintentional impacts on animal populations are sustainable. These include visual and acoustic census techniques, study of survival and movements of identifiable individuals, study of pollutant levels in marine mammals and other animals, effects of tourism on marine mammal behaviour, reproductive biology, population modelling, risk assessment and decision analysis. Dr Slooten represents New Zealand at the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission.
Liz has tirelessly been a very important expert voice for the critically endangered Maui's and Hector's Dolphins, endemic to New Zealand. When Liz speaks, "listen up!" to this living legend.
https://www.otago.ac.nz/envscience/staff/liz_slooten.html
