Category:Marine Mammals
Volunteer Opportunities
Pelican Network Feed birds, count sea otters etc.
Video
The Cove is a documentary about the annual slaughter of dolphins in Japan. audio and videoText and audio. trailer. Short overview in Scientific American.
Jean Michel Cousteau "Call of the Killer Whale" 2009
Sea Otter mortality mystery.
KQED Quest story on sea otter mortality 2/07
Ocean Animal Emergency Features UCSC folks. You can volunteer to help at Marine Mammal Center (see volunteer page).
Crittercam is a videocamera attached to ocean animals to observe their behavior. UCSC alum will show this work April 5th at UCSC.
Dolphins playing with bubbles
UCSC Research
Dan Costa and his students are tagging marine life to send back realtime information never before available. You can follow activities at TOPP and see Video from KQED's Quest as well as PBS's Ocean Animal Emergency
John Francis, vice president of research, conservation, and exploration for the National Geographic Society works with Crittercam
Tim Tinker researches sea otters. Video Info on otter mortality.
Mele Wheaton just received a Switzer Fellowship for improving teaching about the environment. She has worked on conservation, including sea otters.
Terrie Williams, professor of biology and director of the Marine Mammal Physiology Project (MMPP) at UCSC's Long Marine Laboratory sprang into action and were ready when an oil-soaked otter arrived from the Monterey Bay Aquarium, where she had been stabilized. Williams has also done research on seals during the Antarctic winter, the harshest season in the harshest environment on Earth.
Articles
Olive the Oiled Otter was rescued near Monterey. She has her own Facebook page with a good article of status of otters.
Audio
Sea Lion Rescue 5/09 (with slideshow). Next month, the Marine Mammal Center in the Marin Headlands opens its doors to the public for the first time in four years. The Center treats sea lions, elephant seals, and other marine mammals that run into trouble along our coast. They swallow fishing lines, get hit by boat propellers and, increasingly, come down with a bacterial infection that scientists say they still don't understand.
An amazing whale story (Realplayer required)***
'Journey of the Pink Dolphins: An Amazon Quest' by Sy Montgomery (several chapters on audio)
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