Episodes

Friday Feb 21, 2025
Episode 150 - Special Guest Chelsi Napoli
Friday Feb 21, 2025
Friday Feb 21, 2025
Katlyn and Chelsi chat about east coast humpbacks! Chelsi Napoli is currently a PhD candidate at Stony Brook University in the Thorne Lab. In the lab, she studies the health and conservation of humpback whales in the New York Bight. She uses drone photogrammetry to assess body condition of New York Bight humpback whales inter-annually and across foraging grounds, and to model the growth relationship between body length and age. Additionally, she’s using AIS data to examine how the risk of vessel strike to humpback whales on the East Coast has changed in both space and time.

Monday Feb 10, 2025
Episode 149 - Southern Ocean Adventures
Monday Feb 10, 2025
Monday Feb 10, 2025
Katlyn is back from Antarctica with more stories from her time as an expedition guide this season. Hear about sightings of penguins, seals and whales as well as some of the challenges Antarctica is facing.

Monday Nov 25, 2024
Episode 148 - Summer in Svalbard
Monday Nov 25, 2024
Monday Nov 25, 2024
Katlyn shares some of her encounters and adventures working in Svalbard this past summer.

Friday Jun 14, 2024
Episode 147 - Special Guest Kayah George
Friday Jun 14, 2024
Friday Jun 14, 2024
We had special guest Kayah George, a Coast Salish matriarch in training, on this week to chat about some of her passions and knowledge about killer whales and the waters around what we now call British Columbia.

Friday May 24, 2024
Episode 146 - Special Guest Alex Brash
Friday May 24, 2024
Friday May 24, 2024
This week's episode we had Alex Brash join us to talk about his new book: A Whaler at Twilight: A True Account of Whaling and Redemption in the South Pacific. We chatted about the family history that led up to writing the book, whaling history, conservation and more!

Friday May 10, 2024
Episode 145 - Last Call on the Peninsula, South of the Circle
Friday May 10, 2024
Friday May 10, 2024
This is the last episode of Antarctica trip reports! Hear about Katlyn's adventures in Argentina during her break, and the last two trips of the season. Hundreds of whales, seals and penguins - even South of the Antarctic Circle! It's not the winter (summer?) she expected, but it is a winter to remember.

Friday Apr 26, 2024
Episode 144 - A little bit of Chile
Friday Apr 26, 2024
Friday Apr 26, 2024
With some down time from the ship, Katlyn took an adventure in Chile with her family before embarking again for the Southern Ocean. Hear about her trips with a new species of penguin, seals, boat rides and more. Her last South Georgia combo trip was also quite challenging in the midst of site closures on the island due to avian flu.

Friday Mar 29, 2024
Episode 143 - Holidays on the Peninsula
Friday Mar 29, 2024
Friday Mar 29, 2024
Three Antarctic Peninsula trips in one month. Whew! It was a lot but there were so many whales and cool science! Hear more about Katlyn's time in the ice and what it's like to spend Christmas and New Year's in the Drake Passage.

Friday Mar 15, 2024
Episode 142 - South Georgia Developments
Friday Mar 15, 2024
Friday Mar 15, 2024
As avian flu continued to spread on the island of South Georgia, trips became more challenging. Listen to Katlyn's stories of the next month worth of trips in this region and how things developed on the island for the summer season. She also had some awesome whale sightings - including killer whales twice!

Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
Episode 141 - Introduction to the Kingdom of Penguins
Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
After a small break - Katlyn is back with updates from the Southern Hemisphere. Hear about her first trip of the season to South Georgia and Antarctica. More to come!