Species population restoration
Elephant Seal visits Crescent Beach, Orcas
A story in the Islands' Sounder follows a young male elephant seal that has been seen several times near Eastsound.
Dr. Joe Gaydos will give a talk on elephant seals for SeaDoc's Marine Lecture Series Family Night at Camp Orkila on December 5.
Recovering gray whales could help recovery of declining marine birds
SeaDoc-funded research suggests that the recovering gray whale population might be important for providing food for marine birds that are in decline.
Gray whales, listed as sensitive species by Washington State and threatened by British Columbia, make an annual 10,000 mile migration between calving grounds in Baja California and summer feeding grounds in the Arctic. Every year some of them break-off their northern migration to come into shallow waters of Puget Sound to feed for extended periods.
Northern Abalone Restoration: Size Matters
New research, funded by the SeaDoc Society, has evaluated the use of hatchery-raised pinto abalone to restore abalone populations. The results are encouraging...
Bald Eagle De-Listing
On June 28, 2007, the bald eagle was removed from the U.S. list of threatened and endangered species. After nearly disappearing from most of the United States decades ago, wildlife enthusiasts are celebrating the eagle’s recovery. Now that this keystone predator has been restored to historical levels, it will be important to monitor the eagle’s impact on marine birds.
Sea Otter Research
The SeaDoc Society is improving the health of marine wildlife populations and the ecosystem upon which they depend by funding critical research, providing scientific support, and bringing stakeholders together. Like many SeaDoc Society-funded research projects, a recently completed project on sea otters is providing new information that is being used to better manage living marine resources.