Dr. Denise Herzing

Dr. Denise Herzing, Research Director of the Wild Dolphin Project, has completed 38 years of her long-term study of the Atlantic spotted dolphins in the Bahamas. She is a Ph.D., an Affiliate Assistant Professor in Biology at Florida Atlantic University, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a fellow with the Explorers Club. She is co-editor of Dolphin Communication and Cognition, author of “Dolphin Diaries: My 25 years with Spotted Dolphins in the Bahamas”, “Is Anyone Listening? What Animals are Saying to Each Other and to Us”, and “The Wild Dolphin Project”. Her work has appeared in National Geographic, BBC Wildlife, and on Nature, Discovery, PBS, ABC, BBC, NHK, PBS, and TED2013.