Todd Speakman is a Biologist with the Conservation Medicine program. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Piedmont College in Georgia. Prior to joining the NMMF, he worked for NOAA’s National Ocean Service in Charleston for 15 years. He has participated in over 30 field crews to assess cetacean health and populations including collecting photos and remote biopsies during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill NRDA. Todd has been conducting photo-identification surveys and data analysis for the past 25 years and leads the NMMF’s contributions to finFindR, an open source platform for automatically matching dorsal fin photographs to cataloged dolphins. He continues to curate dorsal fin catalogs from multiple sites in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic coast to support investigations of bottlenose dolphin health, population parameters, movement and association patterns, and life-history. Todd has recently supported operation GRACE in Kenya to help collect data on the endangered Indian Ocean humpback dolphin.