Amber Fandel

Amber Fandel was a master's student in the Marine and Estuarine Environmental Science graduate program at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. She worked with Dr. Helen Bailey at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory to determine the presence and behaviors of marine mammals in the western Atlantic Ocean and Chesapeake Bay. She figures all this out using only the sounds these animals make.

Amber is originally from Massachusetts but has lived and worked all over the world. She received her undergraduate degree from Occidental College in Los Angeles, studied abroad in Costa Rica, and worked in Arizona and Nevada for AmeriCorps. She also researched dolphin behavior in southern California and worked in the U.S. House of Representatives and for a congressional election campaign. Amber loves to cook and volunteer, play music and travel, and to hike and paddleboard with her dog.