Emily Maxner Email & Phone Number

Dartmouth, NS, CA

Nova Scotia, Canada

• Manage and supervise marine acoustic-related projects (marine construction, oil and gas), liaise with clients and regulators
• Senior marine mammal analyst with over 1,000 hours (datasets up to 80 TB) hours of acoustic analysis aimed at identifying marine mammal species
• In near-real time, reported on the acoustic occurrence of aquatic species from mobile platforms, including gliders, off eastern Canada (2017, 2021, 2022) and western Canada (2022) and buoys off eastern US (2023).
• Conduct studies to identify marine fauna presence and ensure clients comply with industry regulations near industrial sties
• Familiarity with scientific literature of marine mammal acoustic behavior and effects of noise on marine life
• Write detailed reports describing data acquisition methods, analysis methods and discussing results of analysis and co-author on scientific reports/publications in the field of underwater acoustics/bioacoustics

Nova Scotia, Canada

• Inspecting the contents of all server directories identified as being repositories for pre-2015 BioChem data
• Organizing files and folders according to year of data collection and cruise
• Developing meaningful documentation and organizing legacy data into a master Excel spreadsheet

Manitoba, Canada

• Assisted in teaching Introductory Ecology lab
• Provided students with background information about ecology
• Conducted lab exercises
• Marked lab reports,
• Provided constructive feedback and answered questions
• Invigilated exams

Newfoundland And Labrador, Canada

• Gained strong leadership skills leading a five-person crew on a 44'​ commercial fishing vessel and 22' speed boat
• Monitored fish reproduction (day and night)
• Set up larvae rearing experiments
• Investigated changes in fish population dynamics

Manitoba, Canada

• Performed independent laboratory work determining fish fecundity
• Processed capelin: length, sex, maturity and otolith extractions
• Measured capelin egg size with ImageJ

Newfoundland And Labrador, Canada

• Performed Floy and VIE (Visual Implant Elastomere) tagging of small pelagic fish
• Assisted with capelin implantation surgeries of VEMCO transmitters
• Observed, identified and recorded seabird species and their behaviours
• Monitored fish reproduction and conducted seabird behavioural experiments
• Started a whale photo identification project in Notre Dame Bay, NL

New Brunswick, Canada

• Analyzed tag return data of pelagic fish (specifically Atlantic herring) to compile a research document
• Presented tag return data at the Regional Science Advisory Process Meeting
• Laboratory sampling of herring: measurements and otolith extractions
• Real-time underwater camera operations at sea

Master Of Science (Msc), Biological Sciences (Marine Biology)

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc) Co-Op, Marine Biology