Jeremy Kiszka

Jeremy Kiszka is a marine ecologist and conservation biologist. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Biological Sciences at Florida International University, in Miami, Florida. He has studied marine mammals in tropical and temperate ecosystems around the globe for 20 years. He is currently leading multiple research projects on the ecology and behavior of cetaceans in the Caribbean Sea and South Florida. His research focusses two broad questions: how do ocean ecosystems affect the spatial and foraging ecology of cetaceans and how these large and wide-ranging predators affect community and ecosystem dynamics?

He also recently developed projects to study the least known cetaceans, particularly pygmy and dwarf sperm whales.

Jeremy Kiszka is a member of the Cetacean Specialist Group (IUCN) and a member of the IUCN Red List authority. He is the secretary of the Society for Marine Mammalogy (SMM) and a member of the Board of Governors of SMM. He published over 110 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals, and presented his work at national and international conferences around the world.

January 2023