An interview with Jason Holmberg, an IT professional, who teamed up with marine scientist Brad Norman and astronomer Zaven Arzoumanian to devise a method and framework to more effectively gauge whale shark populations. The trio co-authored a paper in the Ecological Society of America\u2019s January 2008 journal Ecological Applications. Holmberg explains how he became an \u201cextreme volunteer\u201d with ECOCEAN, a non-profit association dedicated to marine conservation, and was able to apply his computer programming skills to tackling the challenge of measuring whale shark populations. Whale sharks are known as \u201cthe gentle giants\u201d of the oceans since they weigh as much as 20 tons yet eat tiny zooplankton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An interview with Jason Holmberg, an IT professional, who teamed up with marine scientist Brad Norman and astronomer Zaven Arzoumanian to devise a method and framework to more effectively gauge whale shark populations. The trio co-authored a paper in the…<\/span> Read more ›<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}