Sean Brillant

Sean Brillant is the Senior Conservation Biologist for Marine Programs at the Canadian Wildlife Federation and an Adjunct in the Department of Oceanography at Dalhousie University in Halifax NS. He works to reduce harmful interactions between human activities and marine wildlife, focusing particularly on North Atlantic right whales. He has worked with fishers on fishing gear research, investigated movement patterns of right whales, developed active dialogue with a broad range of stakeholders, and contributed to the mitigation of entanglements and ship strikes through quantitative risk modelling. Sean has a PhD in experimental marine ecology, and is originally from Saint John NB.