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Bioacoustics and Underwater Acoustics. Professional account for the Hydrophone Dude, Joe Olson. Founder of Cetacean Research Technology 1994 and Puget Sound Chapter of the American Cetacean Society 1999
Join us on Tuesday, March 3rd at 7:30pm for our next Puget Sound Chapter meeting when our guest speaker will be Howard Garrett, co-founder of the Orca Network. Howard's talk is entitled "Orcas as Relational Beings". RSVP here:
www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
A reconstruction of Jim Nollman's Interspecies website just went live! Check it out and browse his decades of work.
www.interspecies.com
Mark and Maya Sears collecting surface samples of prey leftovers from J Pod
Join us for an open house on Tues, Feb 3! You'll be able to meet our board members and enjoying light refreshments. We'd love to see you, and hear your questions and comments about what ACS Puget Sound Chapter means to you.
Please RSVP at the link below.
www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
📷 Joe Olson
OPINION: To save Washington’s orcas from extinction, the Snake River dams have to go (via @amolson.bsky.social )
www.dailyuw.com/opinion/to-s...
Join us at our next chapter meeting for an evening dedicated to Southern Resident Orca advocacy by our guest speakers, sisters Emma and Annie Stafki, who will screen their award winning documentary "Echos of the Sound".
In-person-only
RSVP using the following link:
www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
The vowel-like and diphthong-like properties were proposed by CETI over a year ago, weren't they? Has anything changed?
Bird Flu Ravaged the World’s Largest Elephant Seal Population, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/s...
Our new paper is out:
"Repeated narwhal interactions with moorings challenge safety assumptions of passive acoustic monitoring in the Arctic"
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
A new video showing the humpback whale research we've been doing from Five Finger Lighthouse in Frederick Sound, Alaska for the past two summers.
youtu.be/QoFk5TbNbAg?...
Join us for our next chapter meeting on Tuesday November 4 at 7:30pm at the Phinney Neighborhood Center. Joe Gaydos of SeaDoc Society will be our guest speaker. RSVP at
www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
Join @acs-ps.bsky.social
for an event on Friday June 6th at 7pm for Health Habitats & Homes: Orcas, Trees, and People. Lynne Barre will be giving her first formal public talk since retiring from NOAA on April 30th. See link for details and to reserve tickets. www.zeffy.com/ticketing/he...
Join us, Orca Nexus, and Tree Action Seattle at 7400 Woodlawn on June 6th to learn how urban trees benefit both human and Southern Resident Killer Whale health. More details and RSVP here:
www.zeffy.com/ticketing/he...
This rule will render the EPA unenforceable. Please comment on the rule, and then call your representatives and tell them not to allow its implementation, for the whales and for the planet.
One of the people fired from NOAA today is the director of the Ocean Acidification Program. That program also leads the U.S. government's effort on marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR). The destruction of American science is incomprehensible.
Your starter pack really helped boost the ACS-PS connections. Thanks!
Thanks for creating this. Feel free to add my account of your want acoustics!
ACS will have a bunch to give away during both the Ways of Whales and the Coextinction events this weekend! You should grab a few.
Green 8.5" x 5.25" sign with, black spy-hopping orca on left side, attached to pine tree. White lettering reads "Whale friendly yard" in large font with smaller text reading "No to fertilizers, pesticides or herbicides! Yes to Native & pollinator-friendly plants!" Under that in slightly larger text reads "No Toxic Run-off!" Fine print at bottom reads "An advocacy program presented by the American Cetacean Society Puget Sound , Whale Scout, & Project SeaWolf Coastal Protection. www.acspusound.org
The new @acs-ps.bsky.social Whale Friendly Yard signs are here!
I don't think Brenda McCowan is on this platform, but I should ask her if she knows of them being mapped.
This makes me wonder how many synaptic connections they have!
According to Mark and Maya Sears, they never stopped
#Whaling left #NorthAtlantic #rightwhales functionally #extinct. #WHOI scientist Michael Moore says modern-day threats are just as dangerous as harpoons.
📲Dive into the issues with @nytimes.com: go.whoi.edu/NYT-Moore...
📸 NOAA NMFS permit 2137 © WHOI
Totally understand. 😥
Indeed
Devastatingly sad news for the Southern Residents again. We were so hopeful just a few days ago.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
This news article was published last month about some humpback whale research I assisted with in Alaska this past July.
www.ktoo.org/2024/11/18/s...
Paul Watson is Free!
Master recording of members of L pod in Dyes Inlet on 4 November 1997. Registered US ©️ pending
Members of L pod in Dyes Inlet on 4 November 1997 ©️ Joseph R Olson
Back in the days of very high quality analog tape.
©️ U. S. Copyright pending
This is fascinating! Very well written article, too.
That's wonderful! Please tell him hello from me. I might have built the hydrophones he used in that prototype array. Rodney is such a wonderful person.