Join The Whale Museum’s Virtual 2026 Gear Down Workshop this fall! Presentations will be hosted live on Zoom, with a recording available to registrants who cannot make the live time.
This year’s theme is: An Exploration into Whale Foraging Behavior & Ecology.
Come join us! This workshop is open to everyone! If interested, please register by Wednesday, November 18.
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
& potentially an additional presenter (TBD)
The registration fee is $40 for non-members; $30 for TWM or SSAMN members.
Zoom link and workshop agenda will be sent to the email address provided at registration closer to the start of the workshop.
Questions can be directed to Tracie Merrill through email.
Renew your Whale Museum membership.
Renew your SSAMN membership (Marine Naturalist Training Program graduates only).