Ferguson is manager, curator, and interpreter at the Butler Point Whaling Museum, in Mangonui, New Zealand. At the heart of this historic precinct is a whaling museum that her family started 40 years ago and houses artifacts from American and Maori whalers, as well as a beautifully restored 1840s homestead built by an English whaler. Ferguson is currently designing a new exhibit titled “Whaling Today,” highlighting current scientific research, whale strandings, whale rescue, and marine mammal conservation.