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OCEANS ELEVEN
Our plan was to spend a quiet year in Scotland. Erin’s making great strides on her PhD on Pacific white-sided dolphins. Rob won a Marie Curie Fellowship to model the effects of noise on whale populations. But MAN! This ended up being one of our busiest years ever. Here are 11 of our highlights of [...]
The Girl Effect
The Girl Effect They say write about what you know. That’s tough, because I don’t know what it’s like to be a girl in the developing world. I’m trying to learn, because girls in the developing world hold the key to creating a better life for all of us. It’s called The Girl Effect. I [...]
Need to cool off?
While it’s pretty cool here in Scotland, many of you are having a blazing summer. We hope this Emperor penguin does the trick!
Twilight moon
Moon over our home and field station in Johnstone Strait, British Columbia.
Happy Birthday Fin Whale
We love fin whales. A few years ago, this photo of a fin whale was taken on Rob’s birthday during a series of surveys he initiated with Raincoast. The surveys for marine mammals in British Columbia coastal waters yielded an abundance estimate for fin whales (corresponding to an area that’s roughly the PNCIMA region) of 496 [...]
ONCE UPON A TIME
Full disclosure: we didn’t always want to be marine biologists. Or did we? Rob thought he wanted to study dinosaurs, but he clearly had a knack for line transect surveys on Comox Lake in the early 1980s. Wishart didn’t swim until he was nearly 2. And Erin? Well, you could not have told this 4 [...]
THE AUGUST BREAK
Happy August! Do you know Susannah Conway, the extraordinary photographer? If you don’t, you should. Click on her link. We’ll wait for you while you check her out. Neat, right? Susannah has started a great new movement called The August Break. We’re so excited to participate. She’s challenged/inspired us to post a different photo every [...]
Oceans Initiative launches Quiet Ocean Campaign
There’s a whole lot of noise in the ocean, and it seems to be getting worse. Chronic ocean noise in some sites is doubling every decade. Today on World Oceans Day, we explain why we should all care about the rising levels of noise on whales and other marine species. In 2008, we started an [...]
photo by J. Towers
