ROBERT WOOD is a board member of Global Research and Rescue, grr and a graduate of Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado and has taken special studies in broadcasting at Cambridge at Cambridge England.   Bob has also been in Broadcasting for over 20 years, having worked at KIRO, KIXI, K-Lite and KJR.  He has also worked in Liberia at ELWA and other stations in Colorado.  He is a past Board Member of the Puget Sound Chapter of ACS (American Cetacean Society) is a Board Member of Interspecies Communication (Washington State non-profit org). Also while living in Colorado, Bob operated a horse and cattle ranch. Bob is currently an active amateur ham radio license holder and licensed Captain (USCG/Merchant Marine).

Over the past five years Bob Wood has accumulated over 35,000 miles on the waters of the Pacific Northwest filming (video and photography) and documenting marine mammals for various projects. Some of these projects have been filmed under NMFS permit (#954-1517) when applicable and at other times from a distance with respect to the MMPA (at a distance as to not cause disturbance). This includes multiple yearly trips to the upper Vancouver Island B.C. area to film and record acoustic vocalizations of killer whales, Pacific white sided dolphins , humpback whales as well as Stellar sea lions. 

In 2002, hundreds of hours were accumulated working with killer whale Springer (A73) in the Seattle area and up North in British Columbia waters. This work included doing organized observations under the direction of NMFS Northwest region. Also, informational data was taken by film and acoustic means with the results and information being passed onto researchers and governmental staff both in the U.S. and in Canada. There was further observation work undertaken in Canada on A73, including radio tracking and visual observations. Recent marine mammal projects have been seen on and in: Sixty Minutes II (with Jim Nolman and Roger Payne on acoustics), KOMO, KING, Q13, German Television, Animal Planet, Animal Miracles, CBS, KIRO (“Are Orcas Dying”), CNN, CBC, Fisher Entertainment (Cry of the Orca), ABC, NBC, National Geographic, Nature Magazine and the Seattle Times.