Podcasts by A-Pod Cast For Killer Whales
A-Pod Cast for Killer Whales with host Alison Morrow explores the challenges facing the survival of the J, K, and L-Pod Southern Resident killer whales, the 73 orcas on the brink of extinction.
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Dawn Noren: "What's Killing Killer Whales?" from 2019-08-16T13:59:29
Dawn Noren is a federal research biologist with NOAA. She studies the physiology of the Southern Resident killer whales, specifically focused on blubber and body condition. She has worked on sev...
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Snohomish River Fish Team: "Saving Salmon, Saving Orcas" from 2019-06-20T14:31:27
Snohomish County and the Tulalip Tribes survey fish four times a month around the Snohomish River estuary by setting a net and counting the fish it catches. They measure size, record species, an...
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Linda Rhodes: "Parasites In Sewage" from 2019-05-31T14:56:02
Linda Rhodes is a microbiologist with NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Science Center who studies how parasites in human sewage and animal waste may be hurting the Southern Resident killer whale...
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Tim Ragen: "Recovering Endangered Mammals" from 2019-05-09T17:08:27
Tim Ragen spent 15 years as a research biologist for NOAA, coordinated stellar sea lion recovery efforts, and then worked for 13 years with the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission. He has invaluable i...
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Kurt Russo: "Feeding Our Orca Ancestors" from 2019-05-02T15:15:48
For thousands of years, the Lummi Nation has been performing ceremonial feedings for killer whales, and continue that tradition today with the Southern Resident killer whales, who are now facing...
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Lanni Johnson: "17 Days Without Food" from 2019-04-19T00:41:34
Lanni Johnson is a 71-year old grandmother from Snohomish, Washington who starved herself for 17 days to raise awareness of the plight of the 75 Southern Resident killer whales who are on the br...
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Brad Hanson: "Deadly Diseases"" from 2019-04-10T16:33:12
Brad Hanson is a wildlife biologist with NOAA's Northwest Fisheries Science Center and one of the scientists most intimately acquainted with the decline of the Southern Resident Killer Whales (S...
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Josh McInnes: "A Calf Named Lucky" from 2019-04-02T15:36:29
Josh McInnes is Research Coordinator for Marine Life Studies and an expert on transient killer whales. He recently had a surprise encounter with L124 or "Lucky", the newest calf born to the Sout...
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Greg Ruggerone: "The Pink Problem" from 2019-01-29T00:19:57
Greg Ruggerone and his team recently published research they believe shows a connection between pink salmon and the decline of Southern Resident killer whales. The endangered orcas primarily eat...
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Josh McInnes: "Killer Whale Comeback" from 2019-01-19T02:02:19
Josh McInnes studies transient killer whales, a group of orcas that has rebounded from dwindling numbers. They differ from the fish-eating Southern Resident killer whales because they eat marine...
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Jeff Hogan: "Teaching Kids To Care" from 2018-11-11T17:29:21
Jeff Hogan is the Founder of Killer Whale Tales, a program that visits schools to teach kids about the plight of killer whales and what we can do to help them. Hogan hopes the kids will not only ch...
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David Bain: "Boat Noise & Killer Whales" from 2018-11-10T16:52:30
David Bain is Chief Scientist with the Orca Conservancy and a leading expert on how vessel noise affects the behavior of the Southern Resident killer whales. He is a critic of the proposed ban on w...
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Jim Waddell: "Breach The Dams" from 2018-11-02T20:16:19
Jim Waddell is a former engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He has become an outspoken advocate for breaching the 4 lower Snake River dams in order to restore Chinook salmon runs for th...
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Mike Ford: "Killer Whale Genomes" from 2018-10-09T20:36:42
Mike Ford is the Director of Conservation Biology at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center. He and his team about about to start sequencing the genomes of the Southern Resident killer whales. Coul...
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Holly Fearnbach: "Using Drones To Save Whales" from 2018-09-28T20:12:59
Dr. Holly Fearnbach with SR3 (Sealife Response, Rehabilitation & Research) uses aerial photogrammetry to document the health trends of the Southern Resident killer whales. Her photos recently diagn...
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Sam Wasser: "Poop & Poaching" from 2018-09-25T01:17:57
Sam Wasser is the Director of the Center for Conservation Biology at the University of Washington. He is a poop expert. His studies of Southern Resident killer whale scat has given scientists unpre...
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Dr. Joe Gaydos: "Orca Health Database" from 2018-09-21T20:30:38
Dr. Joe Gaydos is a veterinarian and scientist with SeaDoc Society. He worked closely on an intervention to save J50, the sickly and starving young Southern Resident killer whale who recently died....
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Sen. Kevin Ranker: "Extinction Is Not An Option" from 2018-09-19T00:37:17
Sen. Kevin Ranker (D-Orcas Island) sits on the task force created by Governor Inslee to save the Southern Resident killer whales from extinction. He says the whales have faced the same challenges f...
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Ken Balcomb: "Witnessing Extinction" from 2018-09-14T19:48:06
Ken Balcomb has been identifying and studying the Southern Resident killer whales for decades with the Center for Whale Research. After J50's death, he says it's past time that action takes the pla...
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Bob McLaughlin: "Rescuing Springer & Scarlet" from 2018-09-13T14:14:01
The last orca calf to be live captured in Puget Sound in a rescue effort to save her life was Springer, an orphan who liked to swim near boats. She was captured and returned to her family group. Th...
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Dr. Martin Haulena: "A Historic Intervention" from 2018-09-07T19:44:41
Dr. Martin Haulena is at the center of a historic effort to save a sickly killer whale. He is the head veterinarian at the Vancouver Aquarium who shot ailing Southern Resident orca calf J50 "Scarle...
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