Congratulations to Penny Clarke who successfully defended her PhD thesis: “Cetacean strandings from space: Using very high-resolution satellite imagery to monitor whale and dolphin strandings.”
The panel of examiners unanimously confirmed that thesis was of exceptionally high quality in both presentation and content, and a significant contribution in the field.
A special thank you note goes out to Penny’s supervisors Dr Jennifer Jackson (BAS), Dr Gwawr Jones (JNCC), Dr Hannah Cubayne (BAS), Dr Carlos Olavarria (CEAZA, Chile), Dr Peter Fretwell (BAS), Dr Encarni Media-Lopez (Edinburgh, Prof Karen Stockin (Massey, New Zealand), and both examiners, Dr Athanasios Angeloudis (Edinburgh) and Prof Emer Rogan (Cork).
SENSE would like to take this opportunity to thank our funder the Natural Environment Research Council, Penny’s CASE partner Advisor to Government on Nature Conservation | JNCC, SENSE wider community, and Penny’s family and friends, for their invaluable support and input into her PhD journey.
From all of us at SENSE – congratulations! Wishing you all the very best in your future career.