Sandra M. Dubpernell

Sandra Dubpernell, MS

After recovering from a massive infection from a ruptured appendix as a small child, I became intrigued by diseases and their causes.

I pursued this interest in college (Gettysburg) and grad school (Fairleigh Dickinson University) and received a Masters of Science degree. After spending 30 years in a laboratory testing for viruses, I relocated to Whidbey, volunteered for investigating dead marine mammals and joined the Central Puget Sound Marine Mammal Stranding Network in 2002. Since then I have assisted Dr. Stephanie Norman in hundreds of necropsies on seals, sea lions, porpoises and gray whales by collecting samples and recording the necropsy findings via written and photographic reports. I have been included on scientific papers published by Dr. Stephanie Norman but have not been principal author on any.

I do maintain an archive of the thousands of documents and images that the CPSMMSN has created during the past 16 years.

August 2018