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Howard Elliott Winn

b. 1926

A pioneering marine biologist, he helped bring the hidden world of whales to a wider audience through research, books, and recordings. His work on humpback whale sounds and right whale conservation made him an important voice in modern whale science.

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Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the Western North Atlantic

Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the Western North Atlantic

by David Keller Caldwell, Stephen Leatherwood, Howard Elliott Winn

About the author

Born in 1926, he became a respected American zoologist and oceanographer whose career linked animal behavior, acoustics, and marine conservation. Sources available here connect him with the University of Rhode Island and show that he edited scientific work on marine animal behavior while also publishing widely on whales, dolphins, and porpoises.

He is especially remembered for early acoustic research on whale songs, including work on humpback whales, and for writing or co-writing books that introduced cetaceans to general readers as well as specialists. Records found in this search also describe him as the author of more than 120 scientific papers and note his role in the Cetacean and Turtle Assessment Program, an influential study of whales, dolphins, and sea turtles off the northeastern United States.

Howard Elliott Winn died in Rhode Island in August 1995. His legacy lives on in whale research and in the many readers who first encountered the lives of marine mammals through his books.