Episodes
Friday Feb 10, 2023
Episode 133 - Hippos are whales
Friday Feb 10, 2023
Friday Feb 10, 2023
Slater is back from his safari trip to Kenya! After talking about whale sightings and safari sightings we chat about how hippos are indeed distant cousins of whales, how scientists figured that out, and what adaptations hippos and whales have to live their semi aquatic and marine lives.
Friday Jan 20, 2023
Episode 132 - Humpback Movements in the Southern Hemisphere
Friday Jan 20, 2023
Friday Jan 20, 2023
This week Katlyn takes us through some information about humpback whale migration patterns in the Southern Hemisphere. After Slater came back from Tonga last summer we have been wanting to learn more about how the whales use Antarctica and travel between the feeding and breeding grounds.
Katlyn also added in a little snippet of whale song from Maui this season for you to enjoy during the sightings report.
Saturday Jan 07, 2023
Episode 131 - ’Tis the Season for Baby Whales
Saturday Jan 07, 2023
Saturday Jan 07, 2023
Happy New Year!
Several birthing events for large whales in the North Pacific have been documented this winter. So we did a recap of the latest events in Mexico and California. We also covered a paper that gathered up reports over the past few decades of humpback whale births around the world.
Friday Dec 23, 2022
Minisode 14 - Early Season Maui Update
Friday Dec 23, 2022
Friday Dec 23, 2022
This is our last episode of 2022. We talked through an early season update for Maui with some data from NOAA, observations on the water, and some news updates on Moon the humpback whale.
Friday Dec 09, 2022
Minisode 13 - Humpbacks Have NO Rules
Friday Dec 09, 2022
Friday Dec 09, 2022
Friday Dec 02, 2022
Episode 130 - Special Guest Andy Rogan
Friday Dec 02, 2022
Friday Dec 02, 2022
This week we had guest Andy Rogan on from Ocean Alliance. Andy is the Science Manager for the Ocean Alliance SnotBot program. We chatted about new technologies in whale research, drones and of course whale snot!
Friday Nov 11, 2022
Episode 129 - Whales in New York
Friday Nov 11, 2022
Friday Nov 11, 2022
Whale sightings have still been going strong as whales are working their way South for winter season in the Northern Hemisphere. Katlyn took a trip to New York last week to be a part of the Safina Center annual gala event. We are so grateful to them for supporting the podcast this year. While she was there she went whale watching out of Brooklyn, so we took a little time to learn more about the whales that use the New York Bight.
Friday Oct 28, 2022
Episode 128 - Special Guest John Ryan
Friday Oct 28, 2022
Friday Oct 28, 2022
We chatted all things hydrophone this week with John Ryan from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). As you know, we are huge fans of the soundscape live stream and it was super fun to chat with one of the scientists who is central to the program. They recently published a paper using the hydrophone data to learn about how blue whales might be using acoustics to find large aggregations of krill in Monterey Bay.
Saturday Oct 22, 2022
Episode 127 - Close Encounters of the Whale Kind
Saturday Oct 22, 2022
Saturday Oct 22, 2022
We have had quite a few friendly humpback whale encounters over the past month. So we wanted to chat more about what makes an encounter "friendly" with a whale and what the experience is like. There hasn't been much science done to explain these encounters currently, but we did discuss what little information there is available.
Friday Oct 14, 2022
Minisode 12 - How Sound Moves in the Ocean
Friday Oct 14, 2022
Friday Oct 14, 2022
Katlyn takes us through the basics of how sound moves in water. You can learn the definitions of how sound is characterized and how it's measured. Feel free to reference this episode later if you need a refresh on how this all works when we talk about whale acoustics in other episodes.