Beth Ann MathewsBeth Mathews earned her master's degree in marine biology from the University of California at Santa Cruz. As a professor at the University of Alaska Southeast, she taught courses in biology, behavioral ecology, and marine mammalogy and led research n harbor seals, Steller sea lions, and harbor porpoises. She has also studied humpback, gray, and sperm whales and--briefly--sleeper sharks, and led undergraduate research programs on board tall ships in the Gulf of Maine and from field camps in Hawaii and Alaska. She has published numerous scientific papers, and a chapter from Deep Waters placed second in the 2018 Redwood Writers Memoir Contest. Deep Waters is Mathews's first book. She lives on an island with her husband in Puget Sound, WA.
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