Ms. Ania Driscoll-Lind is an affiliate professor in the Marine Science Department at the University of Hawaii, Hilo. She teaches courses in marine biology, coral reef research techniques, and biology of marine mammals. She is also the Vice-President of the Kula Nai‘a Foundation.

Her main area of research is acoustics and the social behavior and communication of marine mammals. She has spent the last eleven years studying the population of spinner dolphins along the Kona-Kohala coast of the Island of Hawaii. She is a leading expert on dolphin acoustic communication and spinner dolphin biology. She is the Executive Director of the Hawaii Marine Mammal Consortium, a group of twelve marine mammal scientists from several universities and research institutions around the country. She has developed Ocean Explorers, a hands-on high school marine science program in the Kona-Kohala area, which involves students in coral reef monitoring and marine mammal studies. This education program is partly funded through the US Dept. of Education’s 21st Century Learning Center grant to the Waikoloa school.