Craig Homework Task

1. INGRID VISSER,MARINE BIOLOGIST,
AUTHOR

2. Marine biology/Author
• The study of aquatic organisms. Marine biologists study
plants and animals that live in sea water, and their
relationships with each other in their environment.
• Science seeks to publish papers to advance scientific
understanding. Submissions come from all fields of science
and from any source and are published online and in
magazines and books.

3. Ingrid Natasha Visser
• Born on 20th February 1966 at Lower Hutt, Wellington, New
Zealand.
• Is a marine biologist known for studying orcas.
• Both her parents were Dutch Immigrants who came to New
Zealand in the 1950s.
• She has a younger sister called Monique.
• In 1986, Visser sailed with her parents and her sister on a yacht
around the world and visited more than 40 countries.
•

4. • Visser hold 3 university degrees,
• Bachelor of Science, (Massey University)
• Masters of Science, (Auckland University)
• and Doctorate of Philosophy (Auckland University)
• Her research on Orca has been published in international
scientific journals.
• In 2002 Visser's research was instrumental in the New
Zealand governments reclassification of New Zealand Orca
from "common" in NewZealand Threat Classification System
to "Nationally Critical". This is the equivalent status of
"Critically Endangered" in the internationally recognized
IUCN Red Data Listing.

5. Publications
• she has published numerous popular-
style articles and her photographs
have appeared in various magazines
such as National Geographic,BBC
Wildlife and New Zealand
Geographic.
• Visser has written an autobiography
(Swimming with Orca) and two
children's books ('I love killer whales'
&'The Orca').
• She has published the first ever
maunuscript on Papua New Guinea
orca and returns there regularly to
conduct field research.

6. Doctor Ingrid Visser swims with Orca in the wild to better understand them

7. • She is a member of the Australia and New
Zealand branch of the Explorers Club and
continues to travel the world in search of Orca.
• Visser has appeared in documentaries featuring
her research with orca, such as Discovery
Channel's "Killers I have Known" (1998), Animal
Planet's "Untamed & uncut : Killer Whales
Attack a Seal" and "Call of the Killer
Whale"(2005).

8. THANK YOU FOR WATCHING BY
CRAIG GARTHWAITE KERERU 1.