News
October 2009: Portland Upwelling Festival
On 31st October Portland will host the inaugural Upwelling Festival, featuring the Five Whales artistic project. ...more
June 2009: Genetic and photo-ID study
At the Blue Whale Workshop in Cape Town in late 2007, the Blue Whale Study joined a consortium of researchers to develop a plan for a joint program of combined photo-ID and biopsy of blue whales in Australian waters, ...more
April 2009: Caring for Blue Whale Country grant successful
Last year we applied for funding under the Commonwealth Caring for Country scheme, to initiate a program of community education, training and participation in blue whale monitoring and conservation. ...more
March-April 2009: Biopsy and photo-ID research
This year we continued a partnership we began two years ago with Dr Luciana Möller of Macquarie University (now Flinders University). ...more
November-December 2007: Cape Town marine mammal conference
Margie and Pete both went to the Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, the largest marine mammal conference in the world, ...more
March 2007: Suction-cup tagging research
In March 2007 we were joined by our colleagues John Calambokidis and Greg Schorr of Cascadia Research Collective of Olympia, Washington, to conduct a program of attaching suction-cup dive loggers to study the foraging and feeding behaviour of blue wh ...more
February 2007: Our new research vessel, Bonney Blue
In February 2007 we were able to purchase our own research vessel. Bonney Blue is a 6.5m plate aluminium Razerline Olympian offshore fishing vessel, ...more
January 2009: Blue Whale Study Inc. legal status
In October 2007 the Blue Whale Study, which had previously been conducted under the name of Australocetus Research, was registered with Consumer Affairs Victoria as an Incorporated Association, Blue Whale Study Inc.,
...moreDecember 2009: Launch of website
Launch of new blue whale study website..
...moreOctober 2009, The Upwelling Festival
The new Upwelling Festival, hosted in Portland, was held on October 31st 2009
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