{"id":11354,"date":"2021-09-22T10:58:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T14:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=11354"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:46","slug":"carleton-professor-shane-geros-research-on-whales-helps-land-best-doc-award-at-emmys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2021\/carleton-professor-shane-geros-research-on-whales-helps-land-best-doc-award-at-emmys\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Professor, Shane Gero’s Research on Whales Helps Land Best Doc Award at Emmys"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Carleton Professor, Shane Gero’s Research on Whales Helps Land Best Doc Award at Emmys\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n
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It was a late-night text that let biologist and Carleton Scientist-in-Residence Shane Gero<\/a> know that his work had garnered Hollywood accolades. Secrets of the Whales<\/em><\/a> took home this year\u2019s Emmy<\/a> in mid-September for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series, and much of the show\u2019s subject matter comes from Gero\u2019s research on the intricacies of whale culture and social structures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBiologists aren\u2019t typically involved in the Emmys,\u201d says Gero, \u201cbut I\u2019m really proud that my research helped to launch this incredible storytelling that shared the lives of these amazing animals.\u201d Gero<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CBC Ottawa Interview with Shane Gero here!<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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It was a late-night text that let biologist and Carleton Scientist-in-Residence Shane Gero know that his work had garnered Hollywood accolades. Secrets of the Whales took home this year\u2019s Emmy in mid-September for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series, and much of the show\u2019s subject matter comes from Gero\u2019s research on the intricacies of whale culture and social structures. \u201cBiologists aren\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11359,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11354\/revisions\/11359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}