Cascadia Research studies on gray whales

New publication on western gray whale photo-ID matches: A publication that just came out in Endangered Species Research coauthored by Cascadia researchers Amber Klimek and John Calambokidis reports on movements of gray whales between what was thought to be a feeding area for a separate population of western Pacific gray whales off Russia and feeding and breeding areas in the eastern North Pacific. This surprising result along with satellite tag data from a coalition of US and Russian researchers is changing our view of the status of gray whales in the western North Pacific.

Cascadia finds photo-ID match to satellite tagged western gray whale (February 2011)

Field Identification Guide to Northern Puget Sound gray whales (2 MB PDF file)

Educational program on gray whale (developed in collaboration with Larry Wade)

Information on gray whale sightings and strandings in Puget Sound

• Strandings of gray whales in 2010 including gray whale from West Seattle with garbage in stomach

• Results of examinations of dead gray whales, 28&29 April 2009

• Examination of dead gray whale from Johnson Pt., 1 May 2007

• Gray whale stranding near Steilacoom in July 2005

• Report from examination of Bremerton gray whale stranding on 5 May 2005

• Stranding and sighting update on 28 April 2005

• Gray whale stranding Whidbey Is. April 2005

Downloadable reports and publications on Gray whales

• Abundance and population structure of seasonal gray whales in the Pacific Northwest, 1998-2008. Report SC/62/BRG32 submitted to IWC Scientific Committee, June 2010. 50 pp.
• Summary of collaborative photographic identification research on gray whales for 2007 (for additional information on whale killed in September 2007 see Makah press release)
• Summary of collaborative photographic identification research on gray whales in the Pacific Northwest for 2006.
• Summary of collaborative photographic identification of gray whales from California to Alaska for 2004 and 2005. Contract report to National Marine Mammal Laboratory, June 2007
• Gray whale photographic identification in 1998-2003: Collaborative research in the Pacific Northwest. Contract report to National Marine Mammal Laboratory, December 2004.
• Abundance, range and movements of a feeding aggregation of gray whales from California to southeastern Alaska. Reprint: 2002 J. Cetacean Res. Manage. 4(3):267-276.  
• Gray whale photographic identification in 2002: Collaborative research in the Pacific Northwest
• Gray whale photographic identification in 2001: Collaborative research in the Pacific Northwest
• Gray whale photographic identification in 2000: Collaborative research by Cascadia Research and National Marine Mammal Laboratory
• Gray whale photographic identification in 1999: Collaborative research by Cascadia, NMFS, and HSU
• Update on gray whale research in 1998
• Gray Whales of Washington State (1994)
• Contaminants in gray whales. Reprint: 2001 J. Cetacean Res. Manage. 3(1):19-29.  

Identification photographs of Northern Puget Sound gray whales taken on 24 March 2003 (John & Alexei Calambokidis)

Individuals: 22-Spyhopper (left & right sides), 44-Dubnuk (left & right sides), 49-Patch (left & right sides), 53 ,(left & right sides) and  56 (left & right sides)

Gray Whales of Washington State online in PDF Format. Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0 (or higher) needed to view this document. 
Available to download for free at:  http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html#reader
 

Gray whale rescue information

Gray whale disentanglement and photos in N Puget Sound - 18 May 2003

Rescue in Hood Canal - 21 November 1994