Staff Profile

T. Aran Mooney

Preferred Name: Aran A Mooney

ASSOCIATE SCIENTIST W/TENURE

BIOLOGY

Email: amooney@whoi.edu

Phone: 508 289 3714

Website: https://www2.whoi.edu/site/amooney/

Lab/Group Site: https://www2.whoi.edu/site/amooney/people/

Some Info Aran is interested in how animals detect the world around them. How they hear, find food, communicate, navigate and avoid predators. And how humans impact an animal's sensory biology. Our lab generally takes a bioacoustics approach to investigating these ideas but we are open to all sorts of integrative and comparative methods to get at cool research questions. We examine sensory biology in a range of taxa, from bears to fish, but we tend to focus on odontocetes and cephalopods.

Education

2008 – Ph.D. in Zoology (with a Marine Biology emphasis) – University of Hawaii at Manoa 2003 – M.S. in Zoology – University of Hawaii at Manoa 2000 – B.S. in Biology (with Spanish minor) – University of New Hampshire

Affiliations

I lead the Sensory Ecology and Bioacoustics Lab at WHOI.