Paul E. Nachtigall is a former chair of the ethics committee for the Society for Marine Mammalogy. He is a former head of the research division of the now-closed Naval Ocean Systems Center’s Hawaii Laboratory. Nachtigall was the founding director of the Marine Mammal Research Program of the University of Hawaii Manoa’s Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, where he is now an emeritus research professor and active member of the graduate faculties in psychology, biology and marine biology. He is also a member of Friends of Kuilima.