Jooke Robbins

Dr. Jooke Robbins is a Senior Scientist at the Center for Coastal Studies (Provincetown, Massachusetts) and the Director of its Humpback Whale Studies Program. She holds a Ph.D. in marine biology from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Jooke has studied humpback whales since 1995 and has active research programs in the North Atlantic and the South Pacific Oceans. Her work focuses on baleen whale biology, population structure & dynamics and human impacts.

Jooke directs the Gulf of Maine Humpback Whale Catalog, which has followed individual humpback whales since the 1970s. Her team uses a range of techniques to determine individual age, sex, relatedness, reproductive history, behavior, distribution patterns and exposure to human impacts.

March 2022