Kristin Laidre
Associate professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
Whales, Wildlife
Expertise: Arctic marine mammals (polar bears, narwhals, bowhead whales, belugas) as well as baleen whales (humpbacks and fin whales)
Kristin Laidre is a marine ecologist who works in one of the coldest, most remote regions on the planet. Her research is field-based, largely empirical, and uses data on the movements, foraging behavior, and life history of Arctic top predators to study behavioral, population, and evolutionary ecology. She is particularly interested in linking individual performance to an animal’s selection for habitat resources, and predicting how climate change will affect these relationships.
Laidre is also a senior principal research scientist at the UW Applied Physics Laboratory.
