Cameron is originally from Poughkeepsie, New York and received his B.A in Biology with a minor in Environmental Science from Boston College in 20. He has always loved the ocean and knew from early on that he wanted to be a marine biologist. After graduating he decided to volunteer with the MWSRP to get a taste of what field research entails, coming out for a month in 2014 where he ‘fell in love with whale sharks and the Maldives from the very first moment I entered the water’, and the rest as they say is history. Cameron completed a joint M.Sc in Marine Biology and Coastal Zone Management at Nova Southeastern University in Florida. He, of course wrote his thesis on whale sharks! Using the data that the MWSRP and our volunteers have collected over the the past ten years he went on to publish the first growth rates analysis for free swimming whale sharks. Cam is currently a PhD student at Georgia Tech.
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