Kathy Vigness Raposa

Dr. Vigness-Raposa is a marine scientist with expertise in bioacoustics, spatial modeling, and impact assessments of anthropogenic activities in the marine environment. She has a strong program management background including strategic planning and proposal writing for environmental programs and Health, Safety, Security, and Environmental management and compliance. Over the course of her career, she has authored numerous reports assessing the impacts of anthropogenic activities on marine mammals, sea turtles, and fishes; predicted marine mammal distributions and abundances; led passive underwater acoustic monitoring teams on research cruises; and taught graduate-level courses at the University of Rhode Island. Dr. Vigness-Raposa participated in the acoustics and electromagnetic studies for the Rhode Island Ocean Special Area Management Plan (Ocean SAMP), as well as the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management studies of the underwater sound from construction and operation of the Block Island Wind facility. She uses innovative techniques to model and predict environmental impacts and co-created the award-winning educational website “Discovery of Sound in the Sea” (dosits.org). She is the Associate Editor for Acoustics Today with the Acoustical Society of America and co-chair of the Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life Conference Series. Dr. Vigness-Raposa has more than twenty-five years of experience in environmental modeling and field work.