Virginia Fuhs M.S., Western Illinois University also holds an M.A. in Science Education. Her thesis projects addressed spinner dolphin spacial relations.   She previously conducted dolphin research for Mote Marine Laboratory in Florida. She also served as as a sea turtle research assistant  for the  IUCN, Suriname. 

She works as a  seasonal field research biologist for the Oceanic Society in Belize and Suriname.