BIO
Dr. Jessica Kendall-Bar is a Scripps Postdoctoral Scholar at the Center for Marine Biotechnology & Biomedicine at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego. Kendall-Bar’s postdoctoral work builds on her doctoral research at UC Santa Cruz, where she developed innovative tools to non-invasively measure and visualize the sleep patterns of wild seals. At Scripps, Kendall-Bar seeks to compare the extreme physiology of elite divers- including humans, penguins, seals, and whales. A scientist by training, Kendall-Bar’s research has spanned from computer graphics to human sleep deprivation and arthropod mating behavior. However, Kendall-Bar believes that scientific progress is futile unless communicated effectively. Her animations, illustrated children’s books, and data visualizations aim to accurately portray science and its role in preserving underwater ecosystems. Her work as a science communication specialist distills scientific complexity into data-driven stories, graphics, and animations that accelerate research, outreach, and conservation.
RESEARCH
Contact: jkendallbar@ucsd.edu
AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH
DESIGN
Engineer new
biosensors
ANALYZE
From individuals to ecosystems
the questions
MEDICINE
PHYSIOLOGY
BEHAVIOR
ECOLOGY
EVOLUTION
DATA
SCIENCE
ART
STORY-TELLING
the approach
ENGINEERING
PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS
2022
JM Kendall-Bar, R Mukherji*, J Nichols*, C Lopez*, DA Lozano*, JK Pitman, RR Holser, RS Beltran, M Schalles, CL Field, SP Johnson, AL Vyssotski, DP Costa & TM Williams.
Eavesdropping on the brain at sea: development of a surface-mounted system to detect weak electrophysiological signals from wild animals.
Animal Biotelemetry
DOI: 10.1186/s40317-022-00287-x
2021
RS Beltran, JM Kendall-Bar, E Pirotta, T Adachi, Y Naito, A Takahashi, J Cremers, PW Robinson, DE Crocker, and DP Costa.
Lightscapes of Fear: How Mesopredators Balance Starvation and Predation in the Open Ocean.
Science Advances
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abd9818
2021
JM Kendall-Bar, NX Kendall-Bar, AG Forbes, G McDonald, PJ Ponganis, C Williams, M Horning, A Hindle, H Klinck, RS Beltran, AS Friedlaender, D Wiley, DP Costa, & TM Williams.
Visualizing Life in the Deep: a creative pipeline for data-driven animations to facilitate marine mammal research, outreach, and conservation.
IEEE VIS
DOI: 10.1109/VISAP52981.2021.00007
2019
JM Kendall-Bar, AL Vyssotski, LM Mukhametov, JM Siegel, and OI Lyamin.
Eye State Asymmetry during Aquatic Unihemispheric Slow Wave Sleep in Northern Fur Seals (Callorhinus Ursinus).
PLoS ONE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0217025
2017
JM Kendall-Bar & VK Iyengar.
Sexual Selection by the Seashore: The Roles of Body Size and Weaponry in Mate Choice and Competition in the Maritime Earwig (Anisolabis Maritima).
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-016-2233-9
2016
JM Kendall-Bar, D Weller, H Fearnbach, S Shane, GS Schorr, EA Falcone, J Calambokidis, A Schulman-Janiger, and J Barlow.
Movement and Occurrence Patterns of Short-Finned Pilot Whales (Globicephala Macrorhynchus) in the Eastern North Pacific.
Aquatic Mammals
DOI: 10.1578/AM.42.3.2016.300
***2022
JM Kendall-Bar
Sleeping while diving: Tools to detect, analyze, and visualize sleep in wild seals
Doctoral dissertation, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Accession No. 29215006
*** Non-peer-reviewed publication: doctoral dissertation.
SCIENCE COMMUNICATION&
DATA VISUALIZATION
VIDEOS & ANIMATIONS