Masters Student
I am currently a Master of Marine Management candidate with the Marine Affairs program at Dalhousie University. I am very excited to be doing my Masters graduate project under the supervision of Dr Megan Bailey. My research aims to review the literature on the potential impacts of offshore wind energy on marine mammals, specifically focusing on implications for North Atlantic right whales (NARW) and what challenges their conservation might encounter in terms of governance in the renewable energy sector.
I am originally from coastal South India and grew up living five minutes from the ocean. I got my BSc Hons degree in Animal Behaviour at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, before attending veterinary school at the University of Edinburgh. I studied there for two and a half years before deciding that, despite loving it, it wasn’t the long-term life for me. In my undergrad, my greatest interest was around marine mammal behaviour and conservation, which ended up being a passion I chose to follow, bringing me here to the Maritimes.