Andrew Read is the Rachel Carson Associate Professor of Marine Conservation Biology at the Duke University Marine Laboratory, in Beaufort, NC, USA. Andy was born in Southampton, England and educated in Canada. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Guelph in 1990 for research conducted on the life history and by-catches of harbour porpoises in the Bay of Fundy. He has conducted field research on marine mammals, sea birds and sea turtles in Canada, Mexico, the United States, South America and Europe. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission and the Cetacean Specialist Group of the IUCN. He has served on the Editorial Boards of Marine Mammal Science and the Journal of Cetacean Research and Management. He lives with his wife, Kim Urian, in an old farm house in Gloucester, NC, with an assortment of cats and chickens.

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