Amanda Babin

Amanda Babin is the Whale Sanctuary Project’s environmental analyst and an aquatic biologist with experience in both marine and freshwater systems. She is an instructor for a marine mammals field course in the Bay of Fundy, and a volunteer with the Marine Animal Response Society.

Amanda is a Nova Scotian who grew up on the Shubenacadie River, which has the highest tides in the world (a tidal range of 52 feet). She received her MSc in biology from the University of New Brunswick in Saint John in 2013, where she quantified underwater noise levels at industrial sites in the Bay of Fundy and related them to harbor porpoise presence via passive acoustic monitoring.

She then received her PhD in biology from the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton in 2019, where she used acoustic telemetry to track Atlantic salmon throughout the Saint John River to quantify the impact of the province’s largest hydropower dam and reservoir on fish migrations.