Biology Seminar Series: Jessica Kendall-Bar, “Lessons from sleep in the deep: seal sleep at sea reveals clues to sleep's function and evolution”

Dr. Jessica Kendall-Bar is a Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow at Scripps Institution of
Oceanography, UC San Diego. Her research combines engineering, data science, ecology, and visualization
to measure behavior and physiology of marine animals amidst a changing climate. For her dissertation, she
developed a non-invasive system to record and visualize the first recordings of marine mammal sleep at
sea, published in Science. She is an award-winning scientist, artist, and science communicator who designs
data visualization courses, large-scale exhibits, immersive analytical tools, and decision support tools. Her
data visualizations, published in local news outlets, The New York Times and The Atlantic, have informed
international policy in domains ranging from marine mammal conservation to coral reef restoration.