
Ken Balcomb
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Raised in New Mexico and later California, Balcomb earned a zoology degree from UC Davis before joining the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, where he first worked at a Richmond whaling station and began studying marine mammals. His career moved from field biology on Pacific whales and Central Pacific seabirds to a Navy position monitoring Soviet submarines, during which he repeatedly heard whale so…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources