How do Orcas cope with loss?
The first in a series of video excerpts from our Celebrating Science workshop held on July 21, 2017, on San Juan Island. Dr. Astrid van...
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Jane Cogan, Center for Whale Research (CWR)
- Jan 14, 2018
- 4 min
Big Year for Bigg’s Killer Whales
T36 and T137A - Photo by Dave Ellifrit/CWR The Center for Whale Research (whaleresearch.com) has been monitoring Southern Resident and...
Ken Balcomb
- Jan 6, 2018
- 5 min
My Visit to the Snake
The story below was written by the Center for Whale Research’s founder and senior scientist Ken Balcomb, who has been studying the...
David Drown- Guest Blogger
- Nov 2, 2017
- 4 min
The Case For Salmon Restoration
J39 Chasing a Salmon during an encounter in March, 2017-Photo by Dave Ellifrit The federal government has stated, “Perhaps the greatest...
Lisa Moorby
- Sep 26, 2017
- 2 min
Mournful Movements
One of our first photos of J52, taken on April 7, 2015. He was first seen on March 30th of that year. The first known calf of J36....
CWR Staff
- Aug 31, 2017
- 3 min
The Whale Pages: Change in Habitat Use by Southern Resident Killer Whales
Every year for the past 9 years the Center has written a weekly segment in the local paper, the San Jun Journal, in the month of August....
CWR Staff
- Aug 1, 2017
- 2 min
The Whale Pages: Reproductive Conflict in Killer Whales
J17 with her youngest daughter J53 Every year for the past 9 years the Center has written a weekly segment in the local paper, the San...
Jane Cogan and Erin Heydenreich
- Jun 30, 2017
- 6 min
Who's who in killer whale field research in and around the San Juan Islands: a summary of local
Although there are an ever-increasing number of organizations advocating for the endangered Southern Resident killer whales these days,...
Erin Heydenreich
- May 31, 2017
- 5 min
Our most frequently asked question...
Summer is here! We are gearing up to get back into the field full time. Although we have had encounters all winter long, summer is the...
Erin Heydenreich & Jane Cogan
- Mar 28, 2017
- 6 min
The important role public sightings play in conservation.
When it comes to Southern Resident killer whales (SRKW), no single organization has more data than the Center for Whale Research (CWR)....
Erin Heydenreich
- Jan 5, 2017
- 6 min
Goodbye Granny
It is unfortunate that our first announcement of 2017 has to be about the death of J2, known to most as Granny, the oldest southern...
Lisa Moorby
- Sep 2, 2016
- 3 min
J28 through my eyes
J28 with calf J54, December 2015. Photo by Dave Ellifrit, Center for Whale Research. I first met J28 in 2003, but I didn’t know her name...
Erin Heydenreich
- Aug 24, 2016
- 4 min
Missing whales ...
J14 with her oldest daughter J37, 2015. Photo by Deborah Giles. Someone asked me once if I take it personally when a whale dies. Do I...
Melisa Pinnow
- Aug 1, 2016
- 2 min
A Fin Whale in the Salish Sea
In late summer of 2015, a fin whale arrived in the inland waters near San Juan Island. At first, naturalists were confused by what looked...
CWR Staff
- Jul 22, 2016
- 6 min
Where are all the whales?
A photo of CWR Staff with a group of L's in 2010. We have started off the summer field season going full speed at the Center. For the...
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