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We’ve talked a bit lately on this blog about research involving orcas and other whales. For that reason, I’d like to call your attention to the annual Ways of Whales workshop, where you can meet some of the region’s leading cetacean scientists.
Sponsored by Orca Network, the all-day event will be Saturday, Jan. 29, at Coupeville Middle School on Whidbey Island.
This year’s lineup of speakers includes:
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It was a misty morning in November 1997 when I watched 19 killer whales head out of Dyes Inlet, stopping briefly in Sinclair Inlet and then racing for the open waters of Puget Sound.
The Bachmann Park gazebo is under restoration / Kitsap Sun photo by Larry Steagall
I drove over to Bachmann Park near Manette and found a dry spot
on the bench of the gazebo. As I looked out toward the water, two
young researchers, Kelley Balcomb-Bartok and Jodi Smith, sped by in
their boat, escorting the whales out of the inlet. Kelley and Jodi
had been observing these animals for 30 days, and both felt
relieved that the whales were moving on.
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UPDATE, Tuesday, Nov. 16
Naked Whale Research is in the running again for $250,000 to launch
its orca research program along the West Coast. The goal of the
research organization is to collect information about the Salish
Sea killer whales as they travel from Puget Sound to Northern
California. If you would like to help, go to the Naked Whale
Research page on Pepsi’s Refresh Everything website.
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UPDATE, Wednesday, June 2
Naked Whale Research failed to get enough votes to reach the top
100 in the quest to obtain startup funding in Pepsi’s Great Ideas
Program. Getting to 100 would have given the new research
organization another month to enlist people’s help. The group came
close at 114, according to Jodi Smith, who says she will rewrite
her proposal and try again in the near future.
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Our old friend Jodi Smith has started a nonprofit research organization in Eureka, Calif., where she hopes to specialize in observing killer whales along the West Coast.
Jodi could use our help in getting some funding from Pepsi, which I’ll explain in a moment.
Longtime Kitsap County residents and others may remember Jodi
from her time in Dyes Inlet in 1997, when she made exhausting
observations about 19 L-pod orcas that showed up suddenly and
stayed a full month just before Thanksgiving. (See the Kitsap Sun project
on the 10th anniversary of that event.)
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