Ashley Braun

About Ashley Braun
Ashley Braun is an award-winning science and environmental journalist based in Seattle, Washington. Her writing has appeared in publications such as The Atlantic, Science, Scientific American, and Hakai Magazine, among others, and she has reported in locales from the United Nations climate summit in Morocco to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
Thar she blows. AI whale detection system gives captains advance warning
This is WhaleSpotter, an artificial intelligence-powered whale detection system that aims to transmit real-time alerts to ships to prevent them from colliding with whales—a threat that leads to the injury or death of thousands of whales each year.