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HAPPY WORLD PENGUIN DAY!
Here’s a beautiful king penguin Rob saw on South Georgia years ago. Hope you like it.
Please vote for our Quiet Ocean Campaign
Please help our work win much-needed funding to keep whale and dolphin habitat quiet. It is ridiculously easy for you to help. Click HERE. It’ll take you to Facebook so you can vote for our Quiet Ocean Campaign. Just click the green button. Great! Thanks! That’s it. Unless you want to ask your friends to vote, [...]
HECTOR and LUCA need a home
OK, this has nothing to do with whales or conservation. A colleague of ours at the University of St Andrews (in Scotland) recently passed away, and his two beautiful flat-coated retrievers, Hector and Luca, need a new home. Ideally, they’d stay together, but we know that the world isn’t ideal. Hope you don’t mind our [...]
Why are you in Scotland when the whales you study are in Canada?
We get asked that question a lot. Today, we saw the best answer possible to that question, in E.O. Wilson’s amazing TED talk, called “Advice to Young Scientists”. We’ll wait while you watch it. Wilson outlines the lessons learned from his career in interdisciplinary science as a series of basic principles, but the most important [...]
VALUE FOR MONEY
In these troubled economic times, scientists are under increasing pressure to (a) demonstrate the value of the services we provide to society, and (b) find creative ways to provide those services at ever-lower cost. Money is scarce, and environmental research is competing for funding with other worthy causes. Because many of the biggest foundations in [...]
OCEAN NOISE: KEY FACTOR IN THE STATE OF THE SALISH SEA
Larry Pynn is publishing a special, six-part series on the State of the Salish Sea. We are happy for our work to be included. His piece on 18 April addresses an issue that resonates with us: using hydrophones [underwater microphones] to measure ocean noise levels, while simultaneously collecting information on whale presence. We are a [...]
photo by J. Towers
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