Dr. Alexandre Zerbini has 26 years of experience with marine mammal research. He is from São Paulo, Brazil, where he started his career. He has a B.S. degree in biological oceanography from the University of Rio Grande, a M.S. degree in zoology from the University of São Paulo, and a Ph.D. in aquatic and fishery sciences from the University of Washington. His expertise includes abundance estimation and population assessment of cetaceans and satellite telemetry of large whales. Dr. Zerbini is currently a Research Associate with a joint position at Cascadia Research Collective (CRC), at Marine Ecology and Telemetry Research (MarEcoTel) and at NOAA’s Marine Mammal Laboratory (MML), where he is responsible for developing satellite tagging program for large whales including assessing potential physical/physiological effects of tags and tag deployment to assess movements and habitat use of various whale species. He has coordinated research with and deployed various types of instruments in large whales and small cetaceans. Dr. Zerbini also has led or participated in research using visual surveys (ship and aerial) and passive acoustic monitoring (e.g. deployment of sonobuoys and moored hydrophones) for real-time location of animals at sea and to evaluate seasonal distribution, abundance and trends in abundance of cetaceans. Dr. Zerbini has participated and/or coordinated cetacean research projects in the Atlantic, Antarctic, and the Pacific Oceans. He has published more than 100 scientific papers and has been a member of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) Cetacean Specialist Group since 1998, of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Advisory Group on river dolphins since 2013 and of the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission (IWC SC) since 2000. For the past several years he has chaired a number of the IWC SC sub-committees and was recently nominated Vice-Chair of the Committee.