John "Craig" George

Born: January 1, 1953

John Craighead "Craig"� George was born in upstate New York into a family of biologists and writers. John Craig George has been living in Utqiagvik (Barrow), AK, USA, since 1977. He received the B.S. degree in wildlife biology from the Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA, in 1976, and the Ph.D. degree in bowhead whale energetics, age estimation, and morphology from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA, in 2009.,He has been working as a Wildlife Biologist with the North Slope Department of Wildlife Management, Barrow, AK, USA, since 1982. Beginning in 1982, he worked on and later coordinated the bowhead whale ice-based population abundance project (“whale census”) on the sea ice near Point Barrow for nearly two decades. He also has conducted hundreds of postmortem exams on bowheads harvested by Alaskan Eskimos. He has published a number of papers on this work ranging from evidence of killer whale predation to structural anatomy to population biology. He has been attending IWC meetings since 1987 focusing mainly on aboriginal whaling management procedures, assessments, and population estimation. He has also participated in studies of Eskimo traditional knowledge on the North Slope. Craig married Cyd Hanns, a veterinary/wildlife research technician who grew up in Fairbanks. Together they raised their two sons, Luke and Sam, in Utqiaġvik, enjoying community and outdoor activities. Alaska Beacon