North Gulf Oceanic Society, 3430 Main Street, Suite B1, Homer,
Alaska 99603, U.S.A.
Phone & fax: (907) 235-6590 - Web: www.whalesalaska.org
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NGOS is a non-profit organization
that specializes in marine mammal research, conservation and education.
Our primary projects are the study of the killer whale/orca population off
the coast of Alaska and of the humpback whales in Prince William Sound
and Kenai Fjords. [MORE ABOUT US]
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News update for the current field work
season
Our field season got off to a rough. Dan
Olsen filled in, starting our early fieldwork in April and early May, using our
research vessel the R.V. Natoa in Kenai Fjords and Resurrection Bay. He
documented the arrival of the AD and AK pods, an annual spring event
here… possibly one of the most predictable of wildlife events. These
pods (and sometimes others) come every year for a month or more to eat the succulent
Chinook or king salmon that pass through the region in May and early June. The
tourboat skippers out of Seward, Alaska look forward to sighting the whales in
calm waters on a daily basis. These whales are quite used to the attention
of the tour boats each spring. The boats are well trained to observe them,
but not disturb them(see below). The whales get more and more relaxed as
they feed daily on the Chinook, probably their first source of abundant salmon
for the year... [READ MORE]
Report casts orcas as villains of seas
Along with its regular work advising the government,
the federal Marine Mammal Commission was to review evidence "that
rogue packs of killer whales" are wiping out discrete populations
of the most endangered marine mammals. [READ
MORE]
Craig Matkin's interview about the Orcas and the
Sea lion decline
" In the ongoing debate over what's causing
the decline of Alaska's Steller sea lions, researchers have studied everything
from nutritional stress to climate change. Now researchers have turned
their attention to killer whales. As Doug Schneider reports in this week's
Arctic Science Journeys Radio, scientists say the chance to see if killer
whales are eating too many sea lions is also a chance to learn more about
killer whales themselves." - Doug Schneider [READ
MORE]
This is the weather for the places where we work:
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