Ocean Wise Marine Mammal Research Program

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Ocean Wise Marine Mammal Research Program

Investigating cetaceans in British Columbia through field work, citizen science and in-house research.

Ocean Wise's Whales Initiative encompasses multiple projects focused on the conservation and investigation of whales, dolphins and porpoises in BC. These include an extensive field program, a conservation genetics lab, the B.C. Cetacean Sightings Network, and the Wild Killer Whale Adoption Program.

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101-440 Cambie Street
Vancouver, BC

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https://ocean.org/learn-explore/research/

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Since the mid-1980s, the Marine Mammal Research Program has conducted conservation-oriented research on killer whales, belugas and other marine mammals. The program focuses on long-term studies of marine mammal populations and the threats these at-risk populations face. The program’s particular strengths are in cetacean distribution and abundance, acoustic behaviour, population genetics and photogrammetric monitoring of health and condition of killer whales and humpback whales.

Much of the Marine Mammal Research Program’s genetics work and killer whale field research is funded by the Wild Killer Whale Adoption Program, which raises funds through symbolic adoptions of British Columbia’s killer whales.