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Jonathan Stern, marine ecologist and minke whale expert, passed away on 16 February 2017 at the age of 62. He taught in the Biology Department at San Francisco State University and was a long-standing researcher at the University of Washington's Friday Harbor Laboratories. From 2000 to 2003, he was an adjunct faculty member at Florida State University.
Jon grew up in San Rafael, California, and obtained an undergraduate degree at Sonoma State University while volunteering at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito when it first opened to rehabilitate seals and sea lions in 1975. He spent his first summer after college working at the Friday Harbor Laboratories where he began his life's work studying minke whales.
Jon's study of minke whales in the Salish Sea was the first to apply photo-identification techniques to a baleen whale...