New Light on an Elusive Species
Last week, the journal PLOS ONE published a study on the acoustic calls of narwhals, an elusive Arctic species whose day-to-day life we know very little about. Ocean Wise researcher Valeria Vergara, who spends ...
Arctic Field Notes: Narwhal Study
With only a short window of time to gather data, multiple teams from Ocean Wise spent their summer in the Arctic for ongoing research. Studies included the distribution of microplastics in Arctic waters; taggin...
Narwhal Study: Tags Deployed Pt 1
By Clint Wright, Vancouver Aquarium executive vice president & chief operating officer
The weekend weather was picture perfect, with each spectacular morning sunrise heralding very warm temperatures thro...
Narwhal Study: Trundling Herd
By Clint Wright, Vancouver Aquarium executive vice president & chief operating officer
We aren’t the only ones watching out for narwhals here in Tremblay Sound. Narwhal form an important part of the loca...
Narwhal Research 2015: Iceberg Watch
There have been no narwhal sightings since last week, but the whales that we have seen are in much smaller groups and appear with much less frequency than further south. There is debate over where these animal...
Narwhal Research 2015: Making Camp
With the winds in Grise Fiord finally calming down, we managed to depart Resolute Bay with another plane loaded with the last of our supplies and personal gear. The farther north you go, the harder and more exp...
Narwhal Research 2015: Arctic Arrival
We arrived in Resolute Bay last night after four flights and a very long day. We first left Ottawa at about 9 a.m. and arrived in Iqaluit at about 1 p.m., and as we stepped off the plane we were hit by a very w...
Narwhal: An Unexpected Player in the Unicorn Legend
Most people would never think of an Arctic whale when thinking of the unicorn, but it was the discovery of narwhal tusks that further perpetuated the legend of this mythical beast. For a time in Europe, narwhal...