To round out our 4th season of Aquadocs Podcast, Dr. Michelle Greenfield-Feig interviews Dr. Cara Field, medical director for The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito California. Tune in to hear incredible pinniped rescue stories as well as learn about some of the amazing research being completed by Dr. Field and her team.

On this week’s episode of Aquadocs, Dr. Michelle Greenfield-Feig interviews Erica Palmer, a veterinary technician at Mystic Aquarium, about her journey becoming an aquatic veterinary technician. From years of hard work, self-studying, and not being afraid to ask for help and advice from friends and colleagues, she has paved the way to providing high class care for her patients. Plus, stick around to the end to hear her upcoming adventures completing health assessments on Amazon River dolphins.

How do you complete a hearing test on a baleen whale? On this episode of Aquadocs, Dr. Michelle Greenfield-Feig interviews Dr. Craig Harms, professor of aquatic, zoo and wildlife medicine at North Carolina State University, about his fieldwork studies in Norway collecting hearing data on minke whales. The non-invasive hearing tests were conducted by placing sensors on the surface of the whale's skin that allowed a multi-national team of researchers to record the whale's brain waves when it heard a sound. The goal of this research is to better understand the impact of human induced noise on these whales and eventually establish regulatory guidelines to protect these animals.