Join The Whale Museum’s Gear Up Workshop this spring virtually through Zoom!
This year’s theme is: Sound Reason: Noise Impacts and Mitigation for Whales in the Salish Sea. Since many cetaceans often hunt and communicate using sound, these marine mammals are extremely sensitive to auditory changes and intrusions in their environment. This workshop will highlight potential impacts to whales from several specific sources of auditory disturbance and also updates to international efforts to mitigate these impacts. This workshop is open to the general public.
Invited Presenters include:
• Dr. John Ryan, Senior Research Specialist, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute on how environmental conditions affect song in whales and a 2nd presentation on Ocean noise monitoring, voluntary ship speed reduction, and the movement ecology of whales in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary .
• Dr. Jason Wood, Managing Director, SMRU Consulting on whether offshore wind farms and tidal turbine energy extraction really have impacts on whales.
• Melanie Knight, ECHO Program Manager, Vancouver Fraser Port Authority on updates of the Enhancing Cetacean and Habitat Observation (ECHO) Program.
• Gonzalo Banda-Cruz, Program Manager, Quiet Sound on updates of the Quiet Sound Program.
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).