📣 Exciting announcement: We have a new webcam live-streaming in Puget Sound!
The cam is located in Burien, Washington, overlooking East Passage between the mainland & Vashon Island. This area sees whale traffic, including orcas, humpbacks and more.
www.youtube.com/live/w45z6_s...
At Our Ocean in Greece last year, I was asked what topics we are not talking about.
I answered, "If you ask people in my community what the three greatest threats to the ocean are, they would answer, the 'military, the military, and the military'."
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Our science photo book The Radiant Sea is out Sept 2nd!!
30 years of research, 10 years of "we should", and a year of collating pix and writing.
Sönke and I show (mostly for the first time) images of how organisms produce, use, and interact with light in the sea. #bioluminescence #fluorescence 🦑🧪🌊
Hangin with the buoys
shoutout to this iNaturalist user who appears to be an ROV pilot in the gulf of mexico and posts occasional biological observations, including A GODDAMN TANINGIA ATTACKING THE ROBOT ARM OF THE ROV
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
long weekend plans
Text that reads: "Urge your representatives: OPPOSE H.R. 2073. Deadline September 3, 2025. On September 3rd, Congress is debating H.R. 2073, the so-called "Defending Our Dams Act," a bill that locks in the failing status quo on the Lower Snake River; blocking real solutions for salmon, orcas, and violations of Tribal treaty rights. coumbiasnakeriver.com/HR2073"
📢 Before you sign off to enjoy the three-day weekend, we have an important action alert for you courtesy of the Columbia-Snake River Campaign.
Learn more here:
columbiasnakeriver.com/hr2073
#freethesnake #nofishnoblackfish #orcas
This, this, so much this. It's been a fantastic year for sockeye and pinks, but approximately 80% of the endangered Southern Resident killer whales' diet is Chinook, followed by roughly 15% coho.
vancouversun.com/news/bc-angl...
Northern Vancouver Island is, as always, a dream come true 🩷
The legend himself ⛓️🪚
For our supporters in British Columbia ⬇️
Orca Conservancy’s Board Secretary @intertidalkendy.bsky.social will be speaking on Thetis Island this Sunday (10/08) about Southern Residents & watershed-wide conservation!
www.orcaconservancy.org/events/conse...
Salmon Saturdays are back 🐟🫶🏻
Amazing encounter with the T65Bs & T101s last night 🫶🏻🖤
J63 IS A GIRL! 🩷🎉
In early July, @whaleresearch.bsky.social photographed the underside of J63, confirming she is female!
🚨 ACTION ALERT
Contact your representatives to protect the Marine Mammal Protection Act from weakened regulations. We have put together additional information, contacts, suggested talking points, & resources. Hearing Date is July 22nd.
www.orcaconservancy.org/blog/action-...
Got an early start to my salmon spotting season in late June thanks to Stamp River sockeye 💙
@seachangemarine.bsky.social's eelgrass expert Sarah Cook, who is working to restore these vital habitats, shares why eelgrass is so important for marine life, coastal protection, and carbon storage.
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Bringing this meme back to try & summon 🙏🏻
@mckensea.bsky.social we are being PERCEIVED! 😂
June was an event filled month for us!
SeaChange team members attended 8 different events that allowed us to reach hundreds of people to share about eelgrass, our work, and what everyone can do to help the ocean.
We have some exciting news!
The J Pod Eye Patch Guide 2025 is NOW AVAILABLE for free digital download and printed booklets are available for pre-sale.
Get yours here: www.orcaconservancy.org/eye-patch-gu...
🚨 ACTION ALERT🚨
Submit a public comment opposing the proposed rule by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to repeal limits on carbon emissions produced by power plants and weaken critical environmental protections.
Big news!
Our latest paper, “Manufacture and use of allogrooming tools by wild killer whales” has been published in “Current Biology”.
This is the first known evidence of a marine mammal making tools out of objects in their environment.
Explore more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
There are two species of eelgrass in the Salish Sea. Common eelgrass (Zostera marina) has thicker leaves & lives waters up to 7m. Japanese eelgrass (Zostera japonica) is an introduced species with thinner leaves & lives in shallower waters.
📷 @intertidalkendy.bsky.social
The public comment period is open now through September 30, 2025. This is your chance to speak up for endangered orcas, wild salmon, and the health of the Salish Sea. We have put together an Action Alert with more info and how to comment: www.orcaconservancy.org/blog/action-...
Since last year, we’ve been tracking a proposed tidal energy pilot project by Orcas Power & Light Cooperative (OPALCO), which seeks to install a floating tidal turbine in Rosario Strait—part of the designated critical habitat for endangered Southern Resident killer whales (SRKWs)
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ICE terrorizes our communities. People protest, and now Trump is sending 2,000 National Guard troops into Los Angeles. This is how martial law begins in the so-called land of the free.
Trump is deploying 2,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles without the governor’s request or consent. Governor Newsom has publicly condemned the move, calling it “purposefully inflammatory.”
Check out this eelgrass isopod!
Eelgrass meadows are home to an abundance of marine life, with some species being particularly adapting to blend in with the green eelgrass shoots. It can be challenging to spot an eelgrass isopod or Taylor’s sea hare.
📷 @intertidalkendy.bsky.social
Almost one-third of the endangered Southern Resident killer whale population was recently found to be in poor body condition, based on measurements made from aerial photogrammetry images collected in late summer and fall 2024.
