Claire Charlton is a PhD Candidate with Curtin University's Centre for Marine Science and Technology and is a Primary Investigator on the long term southern right whale population monitoring and research at Head of Bight, South Australia (1991-2017). Charlton has over 10 years experience working in marine mammal research and has also worked in the government and industry sectors. Her primary research is on the population demographics of southern right whales in South Australia and she has a passion for population biology, underwater acoustics and conservation management.