Katya is an accomplished non-for-profit professional and biologist with over 13 years of managerial experience in East Africa. She brings to BCSS a wealth of knowledge on legal and institutional compliance, operational and administrative management, and financial controls.
Besides her managerial skills, Katya has a strong conservation background possessing MSc in biology. Her professional aspiration is cetaceans research, and she has been collecting data on humpback whales’ ecology in Tanzania since 2017.
This article is written by Ekaterina Kalashnikova and Karolina Högberg. In 2015, the United National member states came together and adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, encompassing 17 Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs), ranging from topics such as poverty and
Are you a young researcher passionate about unraveling the mysteries of marine mammals’ cognitive abilities or intrigued by the complexities of whales and dolphins’ behavioral ecology? Fascinated by the intricate vocal displays of humpback whales? The Louis M. Herman Research Scholarship,
BCSS is pleased to have collaborated with the Deep Voice Foundation (N. Bressler, M. Faran, A. Galor, M. M. Michelashvili, T. Nachshon, and N. Weiss) and facilitated a data acquisition expedition for the development of Soundbay, an open-source Python framework
Over the course of five years, the BCSS marine research station had monitoring effort of 3860 hours in the open sea of the Mozambique Channel. Its growing database now boasts records of at least nine cetacean species, documented through over
We are delighted to share that BCSS is eager to extend its support to potential applicants from Mozambique for the WIOMSA Marine Research Grant (MARG I) and the GMES and Africa MarCOSIO Grant. As a testament to our commitment to
A harmless snake eel known as Harlequin Snake Eel or Ringed Snake-Eel (Myrichthys colubrinus, Boddaert, 1781) was spotted at the BCSS dive site “Kingfish Alley” – a 14-18m deep reef outcrop situated off 2-mile reef in the central part of
Bazaruto Seascape is part of the ocean basin that is home to a considerable diversity of marine mammals. It is for a reason that in 1979 the Indian Ocean was designated as a whale sanctuary by the International Whaling Commission,
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