Dr. Kathleen Dudzinski, Port St. Lucie resident and founder/director of the Dolphin Communication Project, recently received the 2025 Wolfgang Kiessling International Prize for Species Conservation. The prize is a global honor that recognizes scientists making groundbreaking change in conservation and species preservation.
Dudzinski is the first woman to receive this award, and was selected from a pool of applicants across more than 30 countries. Dudzinski has dedicated her life to understanding dolphin communication and advancing marine conservation. Her work—spanning The Bahamas, Japan, Belize, Honduras, and beyond—has shaped how scientists study cetacean social behavior, bridged understanding between wild and human care environments, and led to innovations in underwater video-acoustic systems.
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