Marine Biology Ph.D. Student, Dan DenDanto Featured in BDN - Reassembling Whale Bones

Posted January 5, 2012

A Doctor of Philosophy in Marine Biology student, Dan DenDanto was recently featured in a Bangor Daily News story for his work reassembling the skeleton of “Stumpy” an adult female Northern Right Whale who was struck by a large ship in 2004.  DenDanto works as a carpenter and whale researcher, who accumulates whale bones and then reassembles the skeletons for museums such as the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, where “Stumpy” is slated to be delivered sometime in mid-January.  DenDanto also works as a research assistant at the College of the Atlantic’s non-profit organization Allied Whale.