TDI Staff
TDI Board of Directors
TDI is governed by a broad-based board of directors with expertise in dolphin and whale research, community and business affairs, legal matters, and public relations.
Directors and Officers are:
President: Louis M. Herman, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, University of Hawaii
Vice-President and Treasurer: Adam A. Pack, Ph.D.
Program Manager, TDI Research and Education Center at Ko Olina
Director: Roger McManus
President, Center for Marine Conservation.
Director: Kanwal Sharma
Former Senior Marketing Manager, Apple Computer, Inc.
TDI Board of Advisors
TDI is advised by people from the Hawaii community and the mainland
U.S., with wide-ranging experience in marine mammal science, wildlife
conservation, nature films, and business.
They include:
Rann Watumull, Vice President, Pacific Century Trust
Thomas C. Leppert, President, The Turner Corporation
Greg MacGillivray, President of MacGillivray-Freeman Films
Peter Ranney, Business leader, Cleveland, Ohio
Mark Wexler, Editor of National Wildlife magazine
Wyland, World-renowned marine artist.
TDI staff:
Dr. Louis Herman
President of The Dolphin Institute
Dr. Louis Herman founded the Kewalo Basin Marine Mammal Laboratory
(KBMML) in 1970 to study dolphin perception, cognition, and communication.
In 1975, he pioneered the scientific study of the annual winter
migration of humpback whales into Hawaiian waters, focusing on distribution,
abundance, behavior, social organization, individual life histories
and related topics Together with Dr. Adam Pack, he founded The Dolphin
Institute in 1993, a non-profit corporation dedicated to dolphins
and whales through education, research, and conservation. Currently
a professor in the Department of Psychology and a cooperating faculty
member of the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaii
in Manoa, Dr. Herman is considered a preeminent authority on the
study of dolphin cognition and the behavior of humpback whales.
Among his many awards and honors, Dr. Herman is the co-recipient of the 1999 F.A. Beach Comparative Psychology Award from the Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology Division of the American Psychology Association and the Creative Talent Award from the American Institutes of Research. His work has been supported by numerous grants and research contracts from such agencies as the National Science Foundation, National Marine Fisheries Service, Marine Mammal Commission, Office of Naval Research, National Park Service, CEROS, and Sea Grant. Dr. Herman serves as a member of the Sanctuary Advisory Council for the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary, and has published over 120 scientific papers. Dr. Herman teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on animal behavior and communication, and in marine mammal ecology and behavior. Under his guidance, graduate students at the University of Hawaii carry out research in marine mammal science, resulting in over 30 theses and dissertations.
Dr. Adam A. Pack
Vice President and Treasurer of The Dolphin Institute
Program Manager, TDI Marine Mammal Research and Education Center
at Ko Olina
Dr. Adam Pack began his career in marine mammal science in 1983 at KBMML, first as a research intern, and then as a graduate student. He earned his MA and Ph.D. at the University of Hawaii. His doctoral work focused on demonstrating the dolphin's ability to spontaneously recognize complex shapes across the senses of echolocation and vision. Dr. Pack co-founded TDI together with Dr. Herman in 1993. He serves as the Director of TDI's field research projects on whales and dolphins and is the program manager for TDI's Marine Mammal Research and Education Center at Ko Olina. Dr. Pack's areas of specialization include behavior, ecology and comparative cognition of dolphins, whales and sea lions.
Dr. Pack is a graduate affiliate faculty member of the University of Hawaii, serving on graduate student thesis and dissertation committees. He is a research advisor for the Northwest Chapter of the American Cetacean Society (ACS) as well as an advisor for the National Branch of ACS. He is also a research consultant for the Wild Dolphin Project in Florida, which studies the social and cognitive behavior of spotted dolphins and bottlenose dolphins in the Bahamas, and an advisor for Pacific Cetacean Group in California. Dr. Pack also serves as the alternate research chair for the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council.
Dr. Pack has published numerous scientific papers on dolphin cognition and whale behavior, and was honored in 1999 with the American Psychological Association's F.A. Beach award as one of the co-authors of the best paper of 1998 published in the Journal of Comparative Psychology. Dr. Pack teaches courses in comparative animal psychology and animal behavior at the University of Hawaii West Oahu.
Aliza Milette, B.A.
Research and Education Assistant of The Dolphin Institute
Aliza Milette is a research and education assistant for The Dolphin Institute. She was a full-time intern on TDI's 2006 humpback whale project and returned to Oahu from Maine in September to assist in TDI's whale database and fluke catalog management and in coordinating its fall high school ECHO internship program. Aliza is also responsible for coordinating, developing and facilitating TDI's diverse School and
Community Education Programs. Aliza is originally from Florida and earned her B.A. in psychology with a minor in biology from Florida Atlantic University. Her previous marine mammal work includes assisting at Allied Whale and The Bar Harbor Whale Watch Company, the Marine Animal Rescue Society, and the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution.
TDI Graduate Student Researchers
These students work closely with Dr. Herman and Dr. Pack in the development and implementation of research studies with whales or dolphins. Additionally, in partial fulfillment of the degree requirements for their Master's or Ph.D., they develop and carry out research projects under the direction of Dr. Herman and Dr. Pack.
Robert Uyeyama
Hometown: San Jose, California
Robert is a graduate from Harvard University and recently completed his master's degree at the psychology department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He joined the Dolphin Institute as a cognition researcher and is currently pursuing his doctoral degree under the supervision of Dr. Louis M. Herman. He has co-authored several academic studies on dolphin and animal cognition, and has been with TDI since 1993.
Mark Deakos
Hometown: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Mark Deakos has come to TDI from Montreal, Canada. Mark's diverse practical background in biology includes work with a variety of pelagic birds and reptiles. His marine mammal experience has involved research on harbor and gray seals, bottlenose dolphins, fin whales, humpback whales, and minke whales. Mark received his M.A. from the University of Hawaii studying with TDI's whale project. He is currently working on his Ph.D. in this program.
College and Post-College Interns
Each semester, up to seven college- or post-college level students
from around the world are accepted into TDI's whale internship program. Acceptance to the program is competitive and is based on college transcripts, statements of purpose, and recommendations. Over the years, TDI interns have come from many places around the world, including the United States, Israel, Germany, Australia, England, France, Switzerland, Croatia, Poland, and Italy.
Volunteers
Many individuals volunteer at TDI's Marine Mammal Research and Education Center at Ko Olina. These volunteers assist with various TDI research and education programs.
Undergraduate Students
Selected undergraduates at the University of Hawaii may enroll
in a directed research course through the Psychology Department
under the tutelage of Dr. Herman (Click
here to learn more). These students participate at TDI three half days a week and assist in various aspects of research and laboratory programs.
Alumni Graduate Students
The following individuals earned their graduate degrees at KBMML and TDI.
| Name |
Degree |
Current position |
| C. Scott Baker |
Ph.D. |
Professor - Oregon State University |
| Adam Frankel |
M.A., Ph.D. |
VP - Hawaii Marine Mammal Consortium |
| Chris Gabriele |
M.A. |
Wildlife Biologist - Glacier Bay National Park |
| Gordon Bauer |
Ph.D. |
Associate Professor - New College of Florida |
| Joe Mobley |
Ph.D. |
Professor - University of Hawaii at Manoa |
| Alison Craig |
M.A., Ph.D. |
Lecturer - Napier University, UK |
| Adam Pack |
M.A., Ph.D. |
VP - The Dolphin Institute |
| Siri Hakala |
M.A. |
Southwest Fisheries Science Center |
| Mark Deakos |
M.A. |
President - Hawaii Association for Marine Education and Research, Inc. |
| Roger Thompson |
Ph.D. |
Professor - Franklin & Marshall College |
| Melissa Shyan-Norwalt |
Ph.D., CAAB |
President - Animal Problem Solvers, Inc.
Visiting Professor, Psychology Dept. Indiana University East
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| Amy Miller Marvin |
M.A. |
VP for Institutional Advancement, Bishop Museum, Honolulu |
| Matthias Hoffmann-Kuhnt |
M.A., Ph.D. |
Research Associate, Acoustic Research Laboratory, Tropical Marine Science Institute,National University of Singapore |
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