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Brendan P. Kelly,
Ph.D.
Dean of Arts and Sciences
Vice Provost for Research
University of Alaska Southeast
11120 Glacier Highway
Juneau, AK 99801
Phone: 907-796-6510
E-mail: brendan.kelly@uas.alaska.edu
URL: http://www.uas.alaska.edu/biology/kelly/
Brendan P. Kelly has been studying marine mammals in
the Pacific, Atlantic, Southern, and Arctic Oceans
for the past 30 years. His research focuses on the
behavioral ecology of marine mammals, especially
ice-associated pinnipeds.
Over the past 20 years, Kelly has given many presentations on his research to general audiences including Rotary Clubs, K–12 classrooms, the Audubon Society, numerous universities, the Mountain Film Festival in Colorado, and the Middlebury Breadloaf Writing Program. Representative lecture titles include:
- Seals' Sense of Snow: Ice Breeding Seals and Climate Change
- Labs on Ice: Seal Sniffing Dogs and Ringed Seal Ecology
- Walruses, Seals, and Climate Change
- Indigenous People and Sea Otters: Synecology in the Present Tense
Kelly is committed to sharing results of his scientific investigations beyond the narrow audiences that read scientific literature.

