Cascadia Research studies on gray whales

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

Information on gray whale sightings and strandings in Puget Sound

• 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

• 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. 
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Gray whale rescue information

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

Rescue in Hood Canal - 21 November 1994