Jorge is a graduate of National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He is a Professor of marine biology at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur (UABCS), La Paz, B.C.S., where he directs the “Research Project on Marine Mammals” (PRIMMA). Jorge has led gray whale and other cetacean research programs in Baja California since 1996. He has widely published in the scientific literature on marine mammals and marine conservation, and serves on the IUCN Cetacean Specialist Group, the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission, and is a past President of the Mexican Society for Marine Mammalogy (SOMEMMA).

Steven is a 1986 graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz and has researched and published widely on gray whales and their breeding lagoons in Baja California. He served as a consultant to the Mexican government’s Ministry for the Environment, Natural Resources, and Fisheries (SEMARNAP), and worked for the Ocean Conservancy (previously the Center for Environmental Education), the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission, and the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service.

Sergio received his Master’s degree in Marine Science Student at the Autonomus University of Baja California Sur (UABCS) in La Paz, B.C.S. He made his Master’s and bachelor thesis on Humpback whale population assessment and recovery rates in México. Sergio is the Field Research Chief and leads the gray whale photographic identification program at Laguna San Ignacio, where he has conducted research on gray whales since 2009. In 2016 he completed his Ph.D. at UABCS and now is on the teaching faculty.

Lorena obtained her doctorate at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur (UABCS). Since 2010 she has worked as a researcher with the Marine Mammal Research Program (PRIMMA) of the UABCS. Her research interests include acoustics, genetics, as well as marine pollution and effects on marine mammals. Beginning in 2018 she leads the gray whale research team in Bahía Magdalena.