||| FROM TRACIE MERRILL for THE WHALE MUSEUM |||


The Whale Museum (TWM) is holding an exciting virtual Gear Down Workshop for Marine Naturalists this fall on Friday, November 18. This workshop will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific Time and registrants will join sessions through the videoconferencing platform, Zoom. The theme of this “Gear Down” Workshop will be Ocean Sounds: New Discoveries! 

Invited presenters include:

  • Elizabeth Ferguson, Ocean Science Analytics, on how artificial intelligence (DeepSqueak) is being used to detect underwater marine mammal vocalizations
  • Dr. Jason Wood, SMRU Consulting, on acoustic monitoring of cetaceans in the Salish Sea
  • Dr. Victoria Warren and Dr. Katie Kowarski, JASCO Applied Sciences, on humpback whale songs
  • Caitlin O’Morchoe, Washington Maritime Blue, on an update of Quiet Sound
  • Madison Wilson, California State University Fullerton, on how baleen whales hear

The registration fee is $35 for non-members; $25 for TWM/SSAMN members. For more information and/or to register, please visit https://whalemuseum.org/products/gear-down-2022 . Zoom link and workshop agenda will be sent to registrants at email provided at registration closer to start of workshop. Questions can be directed to Tracie Merrill at tracie@whalemuseum.org.