Some species being studied by Cascadia Research Collective  (from top left to bottom right): humpback whale, Blainville's beaked whale, blue whale, Townsend's big eared bat, false killer whale, gray whale, killer whale with harbor porpoise. All photos (c)


Cascadia Research is a non-profit, tax-exempt (recognized by the IRS under501c3) scientific and education organization based in Olympia, Washington, USA. We were founded in 1979 primarily to conduct research needed to manage and protect threatened marine mammals.


Recent news (select for details):

Updates from our July/August 2010 Hawai‘i field project

Download the draft False Killer Whale Take Reduction Plan (July 2010)

Report on Pacific Northwest gray whales 1998-2008 (submitted to IWC Sci. Meeting June 2010)

New report on genetic differentiation of Hawai‘i's false killer whales (June 2010)

Update and photographs of humpback whale disentanglement (14 May 2010)

"Oceans" film premiers in the US and includes blue whale footage obtained with Cascadia (April 2010)

Examination of W Seattle gray whale and recent gray whale deaths in Puget Sound (April 2010)

New publication on blue whale ship strike mortality off California (March 2010)

 

 

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Cascadia's Reports and Publications

SPLASH - Humpback whale study
Humpback and Blue Whale Photo ID Research (US and Central America)

Gray Whale Research

Marine Mammal Strandings

Killer Whale Research

Hawai'i Odontocete Research

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