A-Pod Cast For Killer Whales
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Dawn Noren: "What's Killing Killer Whales?"
16 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dawn Noren is a federal research biologist with NOAA. She studies the physiology of the Southern Resident killer whales, specifically focused on blubb...
Snohomish River Fish Team: "Saving Salmon, Saving Orcas"
20 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 ca...
Linda Rhodes: "Parasites In Sewage"
31 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Linda Rhodes is a microbiologist with NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Science Center who studies how parasites in human sewage and animal waste may b...
Tim Ragen: "Recovering Endangered Mammals"
09 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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. M...
Kurt Russo: "Feeding Our Orca Ancestors"
02 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For thousands of years, the Lummi Nation has been performing ceremonial feedings for killer whales, and continue that tradition today with the Souther...
Lanni Johnson: "17 Days Without Food"
19 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 South...
Brad Hanson: "Deadly Diseases""
10 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Brad Hanson is a wildlife biologist with NOAA's Northwest Fisheries Science Center and one of the scientists most intimately acquainted with the decli...
Josh McInnes: "A Calf Named Lucky"
02 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Josh McInnes is Research Coordinator for Marine Life Studies and an expert on transient killer whales. He recently had a surprise encounter with L124 ...
Greg Ruggerone: "The Pink Problem"
29 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Greg Ruggerone and his team recently published research they believe shows a connection between pink salmon and the decline of Southern Resident kille...
Josh McInnes: "Killer Whale Comeback"
19 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Josh McInnes studies transient killer whales, a group of orcas that has rebounded from dwindling numbers. They differ from the fish-eating Southern Re...
Jeff Hogan: "Teaching Kids To Care"
11 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 h...
David Bain: "Boat Noise & Killer Whales"
10 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Jim Waddell: "Breach The Dams"
02 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Mike Ford: "Killer Whale Genomes"
09 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Ford is the Director of Conservation Biology at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center. He and his team about about to start sequencing the genom...
Holly Fearnbach: "Using Drones To Save Whales"
28 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Holly Fearnbach with SR3 (Sealife Response, Rehabilitation & Research) uses aerial photogrammetry to document the health trends of the Southern Re...
Sam Wasser: "Poop & Poaching"
25 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 Reside...
Dr. Joe Gaydos: "Orca Health Database"
21 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 So...
Sen. Kevin Ranker: "Extinction Is Not An Option"
19 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 s...
Ken Balcomb: "Witnessing Extinction"
14 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ken Balcomb has been identifying and studying the Southern Resident killer whales for decades with the Center for Whale Research. After J50's death, h...
Bob McLaughlin: "Rescuing Springer & Scarlet"
13 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 wa...
Dr. Martin Haulena: "A Historic Intervention"
07 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...