Ayshah is a marine mammal scientist with research interests in cetacean and manatee behavioral ecology, human impacts and conservation. For the past 10 years, she has studied bottlenose dolphin population ecology and their behavioral responses to tour boats in Panama, Mexico and Florida. Ayshah is currently working towards a doctorate degree in conservation biology at Antioch University New England in Keene, New Hampshire. Her dissertation research is aimed at assessing the fine-scale habitat use, acoustic behavior and responses to tour boats of Antillean manatees in the Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico using a combination of small aerial drones and passive acoustics methods. Ayshah also participates with a long-term marine megafauna monitoring project in the Mexican Caribbean that aims to further understand the sea turtle, manatee, dolphin and shark/ray populations in the marine reserve. When she is not in the field, Ayshah enjoys traveling in the tropics, the beach and raising her two sons.