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Kimberly Hoffman will join the industry association’s prestigious Leadership Advancement & Development (LEAD) Program, which assembles, educates and empowers emergent and aspiring leaders from all segments and sub-sectors of the overall seniors housing industry.

BONITA SPRINGS, Fla., April 19, 2023 (Newswire.com)
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Discovery Senior Living (“Discovery”) has announced that Kimberly Hoffman will be part of the Argentum Leadership Advancement & Development (LEAD) Program cohort after their nominations were chosen by the Program’s Steering Committee. 

Hoffman was nominated by top-ranking Discovery executives to take part in the selective, six-month educational and networking cooperative, which is presented by seniors housing industry association Argentum. The LEAD program is designed to provide emerging leaders a unique skill-building and development curriculum with firsthand executive insights, leadership coaching clinics, informative salon sessions, a team-based industry-advancing Capstone project, and the opportunity to forge beneficial relationships with other emerging leaders in the seniors housing space. 

In being accepted into this year’s Argentum LEAD Program, Hoffman will follow in the path of three other Discovery leaders who have participated in the cohort since it launched in 2020. The 2023 cohort will first assemble in person and kick off program-sponsored activities at the Argentum Senior Living Executive Conference, May 8-10 in New Orleans, Louisiana. 

“I am truly honored to have been selected for the 2023 Argentum LEAD Program,” said Hoffman. “As someone who is an advocate for continuous professional development, I am looking forward to the robust learning experience, particularly the education and conversations related to emotional intelligence (EI). As the industry continues to face staffing challenges, equipping community leaders with relevant tools and resources is imperative.     

With headquarters in Southwest Florida, Discovery Senior Living currently owns and operates a national, multi-branded portfolio of more than 110 communities in 19 states. 

About Discovery Senior Living

Discovery Senior Living is a family of companies that includes Discovery Management Group, Morada Senior Living, TerraBella Senior Living, Discovery Development Group, Discovery Design Concepts, Discovery Marketing Group, and Discovery At Home, a Medicare-certified home healthcare company. With almost three decades of experience, the award-winning management group has been developing, building, marketing, and operating upscale senior-living communities across the United States. By leveraging its innovative “Experiential Living” philosophy across a growing portfolio of more than 13,000 existing homes or homes under development, Discovery Senior Living is a recognized industry leader for lifestyle customization and, today, ranks among the 10 largest U.S. senior living operators and providers.

Contact Information:

Heidi LaVanway

Vice President of Marketing

[email protected]

239.301.5330

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GLOUCESTER, Mass., April 19, 2023 (Newswire.com)
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For the first time ever, Ocean Alliance and their collaborators have successfully deployed suction cup data-tags on blue and fin whales in the Gulf of California using a drone (UAV). This new deployment method is detailed in an April 2023 publication in the journal Royal Society Open Science and could have significant positive implications for whale science and conservation. Deployment of Biologging Tags on Free Swimming Large Whales Using Uncrewed Aerial Systems. R. Soc. open sci. April 19, 2023 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.221376

This work shows that UAVs are capable of attaching biologging tags to free-swimming large whales. This method may hold advantages for studying vulnerable or hard-to-study species by potentially reducing stress from tagging activities. The work was carried out in collaboration with researchers from Ocean Alliance, Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, University of Michigan, and Syracuse University.

“The ability to use the aerial platform for tag deployment provides a huge step forward for the science. This method allows for tags to be attached to whales that might otherwise be difficult to approach with a boat and minimizes any disruption to their normal behaviors. This gives us an opportunity to better understand their behavior to aid in conservation efforts.” Dr. Susan Parks, whale acoustics expert and Biology Professor from Syracuse University. 

Biologging data tags are critical tools for marine mammal research. The tags are equipped with specialized sensors for recording depth, orientation, acceleration, temperature, acoustics, and even video.

In addition to reduced behavioral impact, “efficient tag deployment enables targeting of specific animals in a group or multi-animal tagging. This ability to target an individual animal and/or doubling or tripling sample size for an experiment will greatly enhance the science and our understanding of these animals.” Dr. Alex Shorter, Mechanical Engineering Professor University of Michigan.

Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Research Ecologist Dr. David Wiley, who has used suction-cup tags to study the behavior of whales for almost 30 years, said, “A lot of time and funds have gone into improving tag design and capability, but this is the first real improvement in tag delivery!” Wiley also stated, although the use of UAVs for tag attachment is a major advancement, it, “Takes more than just the desire and a drone to make it happen. The synergy of combining our expertise and experience greatly contributed to our success.” 

Learn more at instagram.com/SnotBot or www.whale.org.

About Ocean Alliance
Dr. Iain Kerr leads Ocean Alliance’s Drones for Whale Research Program. Ocean Alliance is a 501(c)3 non-profit whose mission is to protect whales and their ocean environment through research, scientific collaboration, public education, and the arts. 

Contact Information:

Dr. Iain Kerr

CEO, Ocean Alliance

[email protected]

978-281-2814 ext 600

Chris Zadra

Drone Program Manager/Drone Pilot

[email protected]

978-281-2814 ext 300

Alicia Pensarosa

Assistant Director, Ocean Alliance

[email protected]

978-281-2814 ext 100

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