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Simon Elwen and Tess Gridley

Dr Simon Elwen is a founding director of Sea Search Research and Conservation and an Honorary Research Associate with the Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University. He has been studying the conservation ecology of cetaceans (whales and dolphins) in the southern African subregion for over 20 years. Dr Tess Gridley is a founding director of Sea Search Research and Conservation and a post-doctoral researcher with the Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University. Trained in the UK, she has been working in Africa since 2009 where she has pioneered the study of acoustic communication in cetaceans, especially the coastal dolphins.