Heloise Frouin-Mouy, PhD

Heloise Frouin-Mouy is a French/Canadian marine biologist/bio-acoustician currently based in the US working as a contractor for NOAA in the Marine Mammal and Turtle Division’s Ocean Acoustics Program at SEFSC. She previously worked for a Canadian underwater consulting company during 9 years. She is also a Visiting Scientist at the Department of Biology at University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada). Her research focuses on the use of passive acoustic monitoring in the ocean to study marine mammals. She uses acoustics to survey the biodiversity and monitor species populations.

She is genuinely interested in marine mammal acoustic communication. Her work involves unconventional fieldwork (e.g., spending time on drifting pack ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence to record hooded seal's airborne and underwater sounds) or the use and developement of innovative research tool and method (e.g., the "acoustic drone" approach with eastern North Pacific gray whales, a low-frequency cetaceans, in Baja California, Mexico).

She is collaborating with several national and international institutions to conduct sound scientific research that helps serve conservation and management.

She published her research in peer-reviewed journals and presented her results to national and international conferences.

January 2023