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Cetos News

Cetos is in its second year of vaquita and minke whale project collaborations, in it’s 8th year of Hawaiian humpback whale work, finished with 3 years of Navy offshore survey work, in its 4th year of early childhood wildlife education work, and that’s just the short list. Our research associates and staff have been working in the field of marine mammal science for several decades in some cases, and in other cases we have given young researchers their start in marine work.

We have a new permit submitted which if approved will allow us the opportunity to not only continue our research on humpback whales but add tagging studies as a methodology.

Below is a short list of some of our highlights and some of our accomplishments on various projects over the years:

• Three reports done under contract to the US Navy on survey results from previously unsurveyed waters off Kauai, on the east side of the Big Island of Hawaii, and in the waters between Molokai and Oahu;
• Three papers published in scientific journals Pacific Science and the Journal of the Acoustic Society of America;
• The first documentation of a minke whale in coastal Hawaiian waters;
• Presentations at every professional meeting of the Society of Marine Mammalogy since 2005, i.e. at the 16th, 17th and 18th biennial meetings in San Diego, South Africa, and Quebec;
• Cetos affiliated presentations given at other scientific society meetings including the Bio-logging Science Symposium (St Andrews, Scotland 2005); Ocean Sciences Meeting (Honolulu, Hawaii 2006); the Animal Acoustics Conference (Corvallis, Oregon 2008) and others;
• Projects completed and several contracts successfully fulfilled for the US government agency NOAA (NMFS, Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle, WA), for various services including analyzing killer whale sounds, building hydrophone arrays, and GIS mapping of Satellite derived data in the US Pacific Northwest waters from Washington to Monterey Bay, CA;
• Collaborations with the Cornell Library of Sounds to catalog our whale sounds; and
• Production of our well received video documentary: "Into the Deep Blue."

Some of our upcoming plans/projects/ventures include:

• Tagging humpback whales
• Potential collaborations with companies producing organic and ecologically minded products;
• Working on blue whales and killer whale studies
• Additional offshore surveys in association with monitoring
• And new publications of course!

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