Will this year’s good ocean conditions last?
November 15, 2012 by Aleta George
The first thing we heard was the exhalation of the animal,” says marine ecologist Kirsten Lindquist about the blue whale …
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Seaflow
July 20, 2012 by Bay Nature
Seaflow works to build an international movement dedicated to protecting humans, whales, dolphins and all marine life from active sonars and other ocean lethal ocean noise pollution through science, creative action, the arts and community participation. Our Sanctuaries Campaign and Vessel Watch Project are working to reduce the environmental threats of large vessels along the California Coast.
Golden Gate Cetacean Research
July 20, 2012 by Bay Nature
Golden Gate Cetacean Research is a nonprofit organization devoted to scientific research on local porpoises, dolphins and whales (collectively known as ‘cetaceans’). The group has done extensive research on the return of harbor porpoises to San Francisco Bay.
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Don’t Miss the Summertime Blues!
August 11, 2010 by Melanie Jones
This summer has been a great year for whale watching in Monterey Bay. The giant blues showed up early and have stuck around, making for daily sightings of these amazing animals. Humpbacks are lunge-feeding and breaching. At the heart of it all? The humble krill…
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Gray Whale Migration
February 06, 2009 by Jessica Taekman
Now is the time to see gray whales migrating along the California coast and maybe even appearing inside the Bay.
Book Review: Watching Giants
October 01, 2008 by Jessica Taekman
by Elin Kelsey, UC Press, December 2008, 304 pages, $24.95
Long-lived, slow to reproduce, and often hidden beneath ocean waves, …
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Whales at the Farallon Islands
July 11, 2008 by Jessica Taekman
Picture hungry tourists swarming around an all-you-can-eat buffet. Only the tourists are 100 feet long and weigh almost 200,000 pounds. These are blue whales, the largest animals ever, and they’ve come to feast on some of the tiniest animals on the planet: millions upon millions of tiny shrimplike krill.
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Marine Sonar Controversy
October 01, 2003 by Leah Messinger
Marine reserves would probably not protect whales and other ocean mammals from the severe acoustic trauma of submarine-detecting Low-Frequency Active …
Ocean Awareness Campaign
October 01, 2003 by Leah Messinger
As thousands of monarchs return to the protection of the California State Park system, a coalition of marine conservation organizations …
Letter from the Publisher
January 01, 2003 by David Loeb
On December 9 I received an e-mail from Guy Oliver at the Oceanic Society, announcing the appearance of the first …
