Lend a hand
-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- scottveirs on VENUS hydrophones going deeper, reporting more
- Lloyd Zimmerman on Scientists seek to silence sonar in the Salish Sea
- Linda Sutton on About
- Krista Jorgensen on Scientists seek to silence sonar in the Salish Sea
- E. Thompson on The Elwha recovery as environmental hope
Archives
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- August 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- March 2008
- July 2006
- May 2006
- April 2006
- July 2005
Categories
- 2009 Puget Sound Georgia Basin conference
- 2009 Transboundary Naturalist Workshop
- acoustics
- BR-rss
- citizen science
- climate change
- contaminants
- dam removal
- economics
- education
- fish
- genetics
- habitat
- information technology
- marine mammal
- natural history
- navy sonar
- noise
- Northern residents
- Offshores
- oil spill
- policy
- Research
- RSS-ON
- RSS-shared
- Salmon
- Scott Veirs
- Southern resident natural history
- Sustainability
- tidal turbines
- Transients
- Uncategorized
- vessel interactions
Search Results for: orca
Communicate
You can collaborate within the Orcasphere in the following ways: Read, contribute to, and comment on the Orcasphere blog Join an email list related to killer whales: subscribe to OrcaEd — A list for educators who teach about orcas (educational … Continue reading
Interact
Humans value interacting with killer whales. There are many ways to observe them, learn and wonder about them, and ultimately help protect them: observe them from land by traversing The Whale Trail; watch them on webcams at the Center for … Continue reading
Calendar
Research and education activities relevant to the recovery of the southern resident killer whales To add an event to this calendar, simply create a Google calendar, add the event to it, and invite the southern residents to take notice via … Continue reading
About
Welcome to the orcasphere! The orcasphere is a virtual collaborative space inspired by the Southern Resident Killer Whale Symposium held in Seattle, Washington, from April 3-5, 2006. The Symposium was an intellectual exchange between scientists, policy makers, managers, industry representatives, … Continue reading
Canadian Navy responds to scientists’ stop-sonar letter
This morning we received the first official response to the letter from 20 marine scientists regarding silencing sonar in the Salish Sea. The response (below) came from the head of the Canadian Navy — Peter MacKay, the Minister of National … Continue reading
Posted in acoustics, BR-rss, navy sonar, policy, RSS-shared
Scientists seek to silence sonar in the Salish Sea
The following open letter was sent today to Governmental and Naval leaders on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border. As of 3/11/2012 it has been signed by 20 biologists and bioacousticians who have studied the killer whales of the Salish … Continue reading
Posted in acoustics, navy sonar, Northern residents, RSS-shared, Sustainability, Transients
Sonar heard in Puget Sound – through WA State ferry!
Washington State ferry workers and passengers on the Clinton-Mukilteo route heard sonar sounds above water (presumably coming through the hull) that lasted for about an hour this afternoon (Wednesday 2/29/2012). Jenny Atkinson, Executive Director of The Whale Museum said that … Continue reading
Posted in acoustics, BR-rss, navy sonar, noise, RSS-shared
NOAA’s search & tag cruise embarks
Last update — 3/2/2012, 10:00 Brad Hanson and his colleagues from the Northwest Fisheries Science Center, including Marla Holt and Dawn Noren, embarked today (2/16/12) from Newport, OR, aboard the NOAA ship Shimada (MMSI 369970147) to search for southern resident … Continue reading
Connecting the Fraser salmon virus dots
Are the Fraser chinook that southern resident killer whales love to eat already infected by the Infectious Salmon Anemia virus (ISAV) just detected in 2 Fraser sockeye smolts? Could this virus — not salmon leukemia — be what caused the … Continue reading
The Elwha recovery as environmental hope
Indian Country Today has provided an excellent archive of words spoken at the Elwha dam removal ceremony (9/17/11) by Bill Bradley, former Senator from New Jersey and past Presidential candidate. Part I provides insightful details into the decades of political … Continue reading
Posted in BR-rss, dam removal, Salmon