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Jennifer Snowball
Marine Biologist, Marine Mammal
Observer & Guide
Jennifer is a marine biologist and
wildlife guide with over five years field
experience in marine mammal research and
scientific expeditions. She is a qualified
MMO and BSAC diver whose involvement in
marine projects have taken her to Scotland,
Cyprus, Australia, British Columbia,
Washington State, The Gambia and Norway.
After graduating with a first class BSc. in
Marine Biology she moved to Australia where
she spent a year working with humpback
whales. Among other projects she was
involved in a team looking at the effects of
seismic surveys on the southern migration of
humpback mother/calf pods and undertook
numerous marine mammal transect surveys on
behalf of CALM, the Australian Navy and the
oil industry. She has since worked with
killer whales, sperm whales, pigmy blue
whales and minke whales. Her research
interest lies in the ecological role of
marine mammals within ocean systems. In
particular, the role of top predators as
indicator species for ecosystem health in
the wake of climate change and human
activities.
She has gained wide practical experience in
marine mammal surveys, seabird monitoring,
biopsy and satellite tagging protocols,
photography, GIS, boat handling and wildlife
guide work. The last two years she has enjoyed
working as an expedition leader and guide in
Arctic Norway’s Lofoten Islands. This has
recently led her back into academia, where she
is currently working towards the start of her
PhD on the foraging ecology of the Norwegian
killer whale population.
A keen advocate of marine conservation she
has been involved in the development of marine
awareness programmes both in the UK and Norway,
giving public talks and creating two educational
and interpretive centres about killer whales in
northern Norway.
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