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Associate Professor Michael Williamson
Right Whales — Our Coastal Visitors
Associate Professor Michael Williamson has been active in education and research for over 45 years. He founded NSF funded WhaleNetin 1993 to excite students about math, science, the environment, and technology (STEM). WhaleNet received numerous awards and was invited to display at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and the US Pavilion at the World Expo in Lisbon, Portugal. Williamson is also Vice president of the Mingan Island Cetacean Study that conducts the longest continuous research program on blue whales in the world. Williamson, an Associate Professor of Science at Wheelock College in Boston, Massachusetts 1988-2008, was scientist in Residence at St. Mary's Anglican Girls School in Perth, Western Australia for 14 years where he taught and advised on marine science education and research. He was also a pioneer in Massachusetts whale research as the founder and director of the Pelagic Systems Research & Massachusetts Whale Watch which began studying cetaceans in Massachusetts Bay in 1976.
Williamson's memberships have included the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council, the Education Advisory Committee for the Sustainable Seas Expedition (NOAA & National Geographic Society), the Society of Marine Mammalogy, the Marine Technology Society, the Massachusetts Marine Educators, and the National Science Teachers Association, and is the Vice President of the Mingan Island Cetacean Study.
J. Michael Williamson is a member of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, a non-profit membership society of more than 60,000 scientists and engineers who were elected to the Society because of their research achievements or potential. He is also on the Advisory Boards of the National Museum of Education.
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