The Whale Museum (TWM) in Friday Harbor, WA, is holding an exciting virtual Gear Down Workshop for Marine Naturalists this fall on Friday, November 20. This workshop will be held from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm Pacific Time and registrants will join sessions through the videoconferencing platform, Zoom. The theme of this “Gear Down” Workshop will be An Exploration into Whale Foraging Behavior & Ecology! This workshop is open to everyone so you are invited to come join us!
Invited presenters include: • Dr. David E. Cade, Post-Doc, Institute of Marine Science, University of California, Santa Cruz & Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University on Antarctic minke whales and minimum size limit for lunge-feeding strategy • Janie Wray, CEO, North Coast Cetacean Society on bubble-net feeding and the social bonds that have developed over time between humpback whales participating in this cooperative foraging technique • Cascadia Research Collective Staff on current gray whale research, the Unusual Mortality Event (UME), and how prey availability may be impacting this • Dr. Marla Holt, Research Wildlife Biologist, NOAA on diel patterns of biosonar-based foraging efforts in endangered Southern Resident killer whales • Dan Olsen, Field Biologist, North Gulf Oceanic Society on fish-eating killer whales switching diet across Alaska hotspots The registration fee is $40 for non-members; $30 for TWM/SSAMN members. For more information and/or to register, please visit https://whalemuseum.org/products/gear-down-virtual-workshop-2026?_pos=1&_sid=e1cc3be41&_ss=r. A Zoom link and agenda will be sent to registrants at email provided at registration closer to the start of the workshop. Presentation recordings will be made available to registrants afterwards. Questions can be directed to Tracie Merrill at [email protected]. Sent from Outlook<http://aka.ms/weboutlook>
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