Dylan Smyth, MSc Student
Cetacean Conservation Program Associate

Dylan is an aquatic sciences technician with a focus on marine mammal ecology and conservation. After graduating in 2015 with a Bachelor of Science, Dylan spent several years working on various projects involving juvenile salmon survival before switching gears to marine mammals. He loves being on the water, playing with boats, drones, and various other scientific toys. His keen interest, and ear, for marine mammal acoustics has given him the privilege of working with a variety of organizations such as OrcaLab, Ocean Wise, and DFO.

After nearly 10 years of field work up and down British Columbia’s coastline, Dylan is now returning to school to pursue a Masters degree with the University of the Algarve in Portugal. Working closely in collaboration with Raincoast and Simon Fraser University, his research will investigate the effects of anthropogenic noise on southern resident killer whale call type selection.

dylan [at] raincoast [dot] org

Recent articles

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Losing Ground: Executive Summary

Authored by Dr. Brian Horejsi, Losing Ground analyzes the respective…

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Intra-hair stable isotope analysis implies seasonal shift to salmon in gray wolf diet

Darimont, C.T., and T.E. Reimchen. 2002. Intra-hair stable isotope analysis…

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Wolf Project Journal, August 2002

In our last dispatch we had not yet learned of…

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Journal of the Wolf Project – June 2002

After a long winter analyzing last year’s samples and data,…

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Yeo Island Wolf Home Site Recommendations

A proposed solution to the potential conflict between the home…

A group of brown bears standing on rocks.

Field Journal, August 2001

Bella Bella, 2001 We all wore waders, we split up…

Partial close up of a map from the coastal wolves report of 2000 pilot study.

The Gray Wolves (Canis lupus) of British Columbia’s Coastal Rainforests

Herein, we present the most comprehensive scientific report to date…

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