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UC Santa Cruz graduate student Lauren Fritz is worried about humans’ impact on humpback whales. She grew enchanted by the gentle giants after college while working on whale-watching boats, but began to wonder about how tourism vessels were affecting the whales’ lives. Now, she studies them in Monterey Bay, using drones and tissue samples to find out more about their lives, and in Antarctica, where she studies how tourist boats disturb the whales.
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