Ocean Wise Public Statement Concerning Harassment of Fisheries Observers at Sea
A recent and alarming article in Vice magazine brought public attention to reports of fisheries observers in Canada facing sexual harassment and assault, ...
Monitoring killer whale body condition amidst a pandemic
By: Amy Rowley, Photogrammetry Research Assistant
This summer, Ocean Wise’s photogrammetry team were lucky enough to return to Johnstone Strait to continue our fieldwork to monitor the body condition of nor...
The Good Kind of Research Flukes
By: Julie Merchel, Ocean Wise research assistant at the North Coast Cetacean Research Initiative
Everybody wants to be a whale researcher! But what do whale researchers do when they’re out on the water? And...
Can Whales Mitigate Climate Change? Whales and the Carbon Cycle
By: Kaitlin Yehle, MSc Student
The skies of metro Vancouver have been an orange haze for much of September; smoke from wildfires to the south, in Washington, Oregon and California, sitting heavy in the air....
One ringed seal claw; Years of data on mercury exposure
By: Marie Noel, Research Manager, Ocean Pollution Research Program
I was lucky to spend a few summers in the Western Arctic studying beluga whales during my PhD and I have to say that the Arctic is truly a...
Tracking Contaminants in Killer Whale Habitats
By: Joseph Kim, Research Scientist
Contaminants
in coastal British Columbia (BC)
It is late at
night and I notice that more data have been uploaded to the PollutionTracker
database. I am using these data...
What’s in a name? Studying the calls of wild belugas
By: Valeria Vergara, Research Scientist
It is late in the evening, the Arctic sun still bright on the horizon, and I am recording a group of belugas that has become temporarily entrapped at low tide in a ri...
Just Another Day Collecting Whale Poo
By: Kaitlin Yehle, MSc Student
It’s 6:00am and my phone is buzzing beside my pillow, letting me know it’s time to get ready for another day on the water collecting Northern resident killer whale feces.
I...