Professional Development Speaker Series - A CAREER JOURNEY WITH WILDLIFE AT SEA AND ASHORE

Marc Webber recently retired from a 30-year career with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service in the National Wildlife Refuge and Marine Mammals Management Programs. His last assignment was as Deputy Manager of the 4 million acre Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge which is home to more than 60% of North America’s breeding seabirds, and provides habitat for numerous pinniped species including an endangered population of Steller sea lions, and threatened populations of polar bears, andnorthern sea otters.

He is an Adjunct Instructor and Affiliate Faculty in Biology at the Kachemak Bay Campus of the University of Alaskain Homer, and is a member of the Alaska Marine Mammal Stranding Network. He worked extensively with stranded marine mammals at The Marine Mammal Center from 1976-1992, in Alaska from 2010-2020, and has studied small cetaceans including harbor porpoises, bottlenose and dusky dolphins, and pinnipeds, including Hawaiian monk seals, Pacific walrus, California…