Alaska Whale Foundation is offering a position at its field station on Baranof Island, Southeast Alaska to a student who is enrolled, or intends to enroll, in a graduate program in biology (or similar) and is looking for a research project to undertake.  The student will have the opportunity to lead the analysis of one of several existing datasets that examine aspects of the foraging ecology of humpback whales in Southeast Alaska.  As well, the student will gain experience working in the field by assisting in several ongoing whale research projects.  AWF may then work with the student to seek funding for additional field work in 2018 to complement the analysis. The principal datasets come from multi-year whale abundance and distribution surveys in conjunction with hydroacoustic (prey