NOAA-EPP LMRCSC Doctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Marine Biology & Ecology
Oregon State University
Taylor Azizeh graduated with dual B.S. in Environmental Science and Wildlife Science from the University of Idaho in 2019. Upon graduation, she participated in the U.S. Fulbright Program in Denmark and Greenland, where she worked with the Marine Bioacoustics Lab on a project examining the effects of micropredation on southern right whales in Argentina. She then began a year-long internship with the British Antarctic Survey while living in the U.K. In 2021, she began pursuing her M.S. in Marine Science at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in California, where her thesis work focused on the foraging ecology of emperor penguins.
In 2024, she started work on her Ph.D. at the Marine Mammal Institute, Oregon State University. Her dissertation broadly focuses on predator-prey dynamics in large whales, which falls under NOAA’s mission to understand and predict changes in the ocean.
Research theme: TBD
NOAA LMRCSC Fellows attain the NOAA Core Competencies detailed in this rubric.
NERTO Project Title: TBD
NOAA Mentor: TBD
Academic Advisors: TBD
Publications:
Stewart, JD, Pitman, RL, Martínez-Loustalot, P, Ransome, N, Azizeh, TR, Rosales Nanduca, H, Fonseca, I, Zavala Jiménez, AA, Urbán R, J. (2026). Shelf Life: Nearshore Movements, Dive Behavior, and Ecotype Status of Satellite‐Tagged Killer Whales in Pacific Mexico. Marine Mammal Science 42 (2), e70133.
Azizeh, TR. (2025). Estimating prey capture attempts and activity costs in foraging emperor penguins (Aptenodytes Forster) using integrated biologging data. San Jose State University – ScholarWorks.
Azizeh TR, Moore, S. (2025). Marine Mammal Watch, collected from the Research Vessel Sikuliaq, Northern Bering Sea to Chukchi Sea, 2025. Arctic Data Center.
Azizeh TR, Sprogis, KR, Soley, R, Nielsen, MLK, Uhart, MM, Sironi, M, Marón, C, Bejder, L, Madsen, PT, Christiansen, F. (2021). Acute and chronic behavioral effects of kelp gull micropredation on southern right whale mother–calf pairs off Península Valdés, Argentina. Marine Ecology Progress Series 668, 113 – 148.
NOAA Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science Center
University of Maryland Eastern Shore (Lead Institution)
(410) 651-7870
Award numbers: FY 2021 Award #NA21SEC4810005
Funding Agency: NOAA Educational Partnership Program (EPP/MSI)
