Ashley Blawas

Dr. Ashley Blawas is a postdoctoral researcher at the Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University. She completed her B.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering at Duke University and her Ph.D. in Marine Science at the Duke University Marine Laboratory. She works at the intersection of marine mammal science, engineering, and ecological physiology to investigate the physiological traits that underpin the extreme metabolic function of cetaceans. To date, her work has led to new insights that inform our understanding of basic physiological principles as well as translational medicine and conservation. At Stanford she studies the physiology of baleen whales off the California coast using biologging tags and has been developing the capacity for physio-logging by engineering novel designs for electrocardiogram (ECG) equipped tags. Her ongoing research also includes understanding the scaling of physiological rates in cetaceans and the molecular drivers of extreme cardiac function in diving baleen whales.

February 2025