Jen Mannas

Jen Mannas is a wildlife ecologist based at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana. She has been working in Antarctica as a Weddell Seal researcher during the seal pupping season for a number of years.

Wildlife ecologist Jen Mannas studies the Weddell Seals in Antarctica, where she has spent a number of Austral Spring seasons based at the Big Razorback remote field camp located near the United States Antarctic Base, McMurdo Station. Jen is studying the mass dynamics of the seal population there, and the relationship to reproductive success. She and her team continue the research work on this seal population that began back in 1968. This is one of the longest ongoing reproductive studies of a long-lived mammal undertaken. Check out the Montana State University website about the project for more information on this important work!