 |  | Peter Tyack Senior Scientist Biology
Office Phone: +1 508 289 2818 Fax: +1 508 457 2041 ptyack@whoi.edu
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WHOI Mailing Address: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Marine Research Facility 245, MS#50 Woods Hole, Ma. 02543 | | Other WHOI Addresses: Lab: Marine Research Facility 232 (MS# 50) Lab: Marine Research Facility 234 (MS# 50) Lab: Marine Research Facility 236 (MS# 50) Lab: Marine Research Facility 238 (MS# 50)
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Education A.B. Harvard University, 1976, Biology
Ph.D. Rockefeller University, 1982,
Animal Behavior
Research Interests Social behavior and acoustic communication in cetaceans; vocal learning and mimicry in the natural communication systems of cetaceans; individually distinctive signature signals, vocal learning, and mimicry in the bottlenose dolphin and the sperm whale; acoustic structure and social functions of the songs of baleen whales; responses of cetaceans to human noise; playback to cetaceans of their own and conspecific vocalizations; development of methods to identify which cetacean produces a sound within a social group of conspecifics.
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