Meet the developers

Carol Newman, Robbi Luscombe-Newman and Bill Fulton monitoring humpback songs

Jim Henderson

Behayve for iPhone was developed by a team at Living Ocean, an environmental group in Sydney Australia, that had for many years been studying humpback whale migrations in the local area. We wanted it to be useful for a wide range of animal studies, both terrestrial and marine, as well as our own.

Bill Fulton had the concept and is to blame for the programming, while Robbi Luscombe-Newman designed the visual appearance. Roger Kwong and Jim Henderson are the app testers extraordinaires in the team.

Roger Kwong

Bill is an IT veteran who managed teams of software and hardware engineers at a major technology company and established a successful artificial intelligence consultancy. Marine mammals were his constant avocation since 1986, with extensive involvement in whale strandings, disentanglements, marine mammal necropsies and a great deal of enjoyable seal-sitting. Leopard seals are his favourite animal.

Robbi, an internationally respected photographer and designer, co-founder and president of Living Ocean, is a leader in the Australian environmental movement.

Roger has enjoyed a long management and technical career in IT application development including media, financial services and logistics - another great photographer. Jim has extensive programming experience, and with his wife translated the entire New Testament into the Rossel language of New Guinea.

With the hot blast of climate change breathing down our necks, animal studies are of ever-increasing importance. We hope that Behayve can be of value to a diverse range of field researchers worldwide.