MMCTA Board Members
Bryant Austin, President
Bryant Austin founded MMCTA in 2005. He has been an artist and marine mammal conservation activist most of his life. In 1999 he brought his two passions together and began a concerted effort to photograph marine mammals as an art form and to explore ways that his work could benefit their survival. To learn more about Austin’s work and to see more of his images his web site can be found at www.studiocosmos.com.
Diana Hay, Director
Diana is a graduate from UC Santa Cruz, having received her degree in Physical Anthropology with a focus in Primate Behavior. Her passion extends to complex mammalian behavior and its underlying principles. Diana became interested in cetaceans when she learned that some smaller bodied tooth whales have similar life-history patterns and cognitive capacities to those of apes, regardless of the ~90 million year split between the two. Diana Joined MMCTA in 2005, volunteering with boat operations, and since then has become one of the directors and the webmaster. Diana is currently completing a second bachelors in mathematics.