Riaz quoted in News Explorer: Is the fuel price hike in Bangladesh a sign. Anthropogenic threats and conservation needs of blue whales, Balaenoptera musculus indica, around Sri Lanka. Journal of Marine Biology 2016. levels and the climate crisis in Bangladesh, the Maldives, and Sri Lanka. Brownell Jr., Bernie Tershy & Donald Croll. Predicting cetacean distributions in data‐poor marine ecosystems. Children and their parents took part in all five activities and sent in. First record of Omura’s whale, Balaenoptera omurai, in Sri Lankan waters. Teachers used the Explorers resources as part of their online learning curriculum. Business Explorer covers your employees for comprehensive in-patient treatment with. New determination of prey and parasite species for Northern Indian Ocean blue whales. Frontiers in Marine Science 5(104). as well as covering for treatment in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Faux, James Marthick, Joanne Dickinson & Simon N. Her life’s work is to change the current marine conservation model, protect this unique population of blue whales and inspire the next generation of ocean heroes from all corners of the globe.ĭe Vos, Asha, Cassandra E. Asha is a TED Senior fellow, an Ocean Conservation Fellow at the New England Aquarium, a Duke Global Fellow in Marine Conservation, and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. Most excitingly, Asha is the first and only Sri Lankan to have a PhD in Marine Mammal research, the first Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation from Sri Lanka and also the first National Geographic Emerging Explorer from my small island nation. The research conducted through this project has led to many key research publications and is used to inform policy at the local and global level.Īdditionally, the work has been showcased internationally by Channel 7 Australia (2010), the BBC (2010), the New York Times (2012), CNN (2012), WIRED UK (2014), the New Scientist (2014), TED (2015), Grist (2015), GOOD (2016), National Geographic (2016) and Nature (2017). ‘The Sri Lankan Blue Whale Project’, commenced in 2008 is the first long term study on blue whales in this region and is Oceanswell’s flagship project. Andrews, University of Oxford and the University of Western Australia but escaped academia to establish Oceanswell, Sri Lanka’s first marine conservation research and education nonprofit. Asha has degrees from the University of St. She calls the population of blue whales in Sri Lankan waters ‘the Unorthodox Whales’ because through many years of research, her work has shown that they are simply different. Asha is a Sri Lankan marine biologist, ocean educator and pioneer of blue whale research within the Northern Indian Ocean.
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