The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) has named MBARI Senior Scientist Kelly Benoit-Bird a 2025 Sustaining Fellow. Each year, ASLO honors select members for their contributions to advancing aquatic sciences. Sustaining Fellows are recognized as having sustained excellence in their contributions to ASLO and the aquatic sciences.

Since 2015, more than 200 members have been named Fellows and Sustaining Fellows in acknowledgement of their service to ASLO and the wider aquatic science community. The 2025 fellows will be honored during the upcoming 2026 ASLO-SIL Joint Meeting in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, this May.

Benoit-Bird leads MBARI’s Acoustical Ocean Ecology Team, using acoustic technology to understand how animals respond to the dynamic marine environment. Her work reveals how animals—from plankton and fishes to squids and deep-diving whales—organize, cooperate, and migrate in response to constantly shifting seascapes. Her research has helped illuminate the important role migrating marine life plays in cycling carbon in the ocean and buffering our planet from the impacts of climate change.

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