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THIS YEAR, MAUI (HAWAII) AND THE WHALES ARE COMING TO YOU!
WHALE TALES
SEE whales - ABOVE and BELOW the surface
LEARN the LATEST about whales from the EXPERTS
HEAR from researchers and photographers around the world
From the comfort of your home!
Register to Attend Program and Speakers Be My Whalentine EventWHALE TALES – A VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE
The Whale Tales program will be broadcast live over two days and will feature nearly 10 hours of whales and expert talks, plus virtual whale watches and a virtual snorkel trip. More than 50 leading SCIENTISTS, PHOTOGRAPHERS, MUSICIANS, and VIDEOGRAPHERS will share 25 TED-style sessions and 32 check-ins from around the world over two days. Share with your family and friends on your laptop, mobile device, or big screen.
Event registration includes all presentations, the on-demand library, the education expo, and virtual whale watches. Whale Tales has something for everyone, including a section just for kids! Plus, you will have access to the archive of this one-of-a-kind event until March 15, 2021.
The tax-deductible minimum donation to access this event is $60.
Student, educator, and kamaʻāina discounts available.
PROGRAM
DAY 1
(ORIGINALLY BROADCAST ON SAT FEBRUARY 13)
LIVE BROADCAST
- Roger Payne, PhD, Ocean Alliance
- Jason Sturgis, Open Ocean Productions and Whale Trust
SD To HD. 4K To 8K. Advancing Camera Technology and How it has Helped Whale Research - Jim Darling, PhD, Whale Trust
North Pacific Humpback Whale Song - Ellen Garland, PhD, University of St Andrews
South Pacific Humpback Whale Song - Bernard Abeille, La Lyrone
Baleine et Contrebasse - Andrew Stevenson, Whales Bermuda
What Are The Humpback Whales Doing in Bermuda? - Beth Goodwin, Jupiter Research Foundation
Wave Glider Europa’s Multi-year Open Ocean Survey Of Humpback Whales
LIVE Q & A
- Jim Darling, PhD, Whale Trust
Andrew Stevenson, Whales Bermuda
Beth Goodwin, Jupiter Research Foundation
Flip Nicklin, Whale Trust and National Geographic
DAY 2
(ORIGINALLY BROADCAST ON SUNFEBRUARY 14)
LIVE Q&A: HUMPBACK WHALE SONG ACROSS THE PACIFIC
with Dr. Roger Payne, Dr. Jim Darling (North Pacific), and Dr. Ellen Garland (South Pacific)
LIVE VIRTUAL WHALE WATCH
with Dive Maui
LIVE BROADCAST
- Flip Nicklin, Whale Trust and National Geographic
Whale Tales, A Chance to Tell Our Story - Hal Whitehead, PhD, Dalhousie University
The Cultural Lives of Sperm Whales - Dave Wiley, PhD, Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary
Using Advanced Technologies to Explore the Underwater Behavior of Humpback Whales - Moira Brown, PhD Canadian Whale Institute
Right Whales and Their Allies - Mike Korostelev, Whale Watching Russia
Whale’s Photographer – Encounters that Can Change Your Life - Kenneth Balcomb, Center for Whale Research
Orca Survey and the Big Salmon Ranch
LIVE Q & A
- Flip Nicklin, Whale Trust and National Geographic
Hal Whitehead, PhD, Dalhousie University
Moira Brown, PhD Canadian Whale Institute
Ed Lyman, Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary
ON DEMAND SESSIONS
These sessions are available for access outside of the daily live streams and are included with your event registration.
- Robin Baird, PhD, Cascadia Research
Dwarf Sperm Whales in Hawaiian Waters: Using Drones, Photo-ID, and Citizen Science to Study a Difficult-to-study Species - Lars Bejder, PhD University of Hawaii at Manoa – Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology
The Energetic Cost of Humpback Whale Migration - Rachel Cartwright, PhD, The Keiki Kohola Project
Weathering the Lean Years – How Maui’s Moms and Calves Fared Through Recent Climate-based Disruptions in the North Pacific. - Hannah Cubaynes, PhD, British Antarctic Survey
Whales from Space - Ralph Lee Hopkins, Ralph Lee Hopkins Photography and Lindblad Expeditions
Whale Tales 2021 – A Look Back At Five Years Of Photo Expeditions - Anke Kügler, Marine Biology Graduate Program, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
What male humpback whale song chorusing can reveal about their ecology - Marc Lammers, PhD, Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary
The Occurrence of Humpback Whales in the NWHI Revealed Through a Marine Drone - Ed Lyman, Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary
The Science Behind Large Whale Entanglement Response - Joseph Mobley, PhD, University of Hawaii at Manoa
2019-20 Humpback Whale Aerial Survey Project - Ralph Pace, Ralph Pace Photography and Whale Trust
Whales of Monterey - Debbie Patton, Captain Steve’s Rafting
Humpback Birth Video, Update - Brian Skerry, Brian Skerry Photography and National Geographic
Secrets of the Whales - Kate Stafford, PhD, University of Washington
Listening to a Changing Arctic
VIRTUAL EXPERIENCES
These virtual experiences will be available to access throughout the weekend and are included with your event registration.
- Virtual Whale Watch, Ultimate Whale Watch
- Getting Mugged! A Whale Watch Experience, Captain Steve’s Rafting
- Virtual Snorkel, MOCMI
EDUCATION EXPO
Aloha Legacy Hawaii & HI-HOPE
Hawai’i Association for Marine Education and Research (HAMER)
Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary
Maui Nui Seabird Recovery Project
MOC Marine Institute
Ocean Innovators
Whale Trust
Fresh Island Art Gallery with Sean Baba
Kōkua Sun Care
Keynote and On-Demand Speakers
- Bernard Abeille, La Lyrone
Baleine et Contrebasse - Robin Baird, PhD, Cascadia Research
Dwarf Sperm Whales in Hawaiian Waters: Using Drones, Photo-ID, and Citizen Science to Study a Difficult-to-study Species - Kenneth Balcomb, Center for Whale Research
Orca Survey and the Big Salmon Ranch - Lars Bejder, PhD University of Hawaii at Manoa – Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology
The Energetic Cost of Humpback Whale Migration - Moira Brown, PhD Canadian Whale Institute
Right Whales and Their Allies - Rachel Cartwright, PhD, The Keiki Kohola Project
Weathering the Lean Years – How Maui’s Moms and Calves Fared Through Recent Climate-based Disruptions in the North Pacific. - Hannah Cubaynes, PhD, British Antarctic Survey
Whales from Space - Jim Darling, PhD, Whale Trust
North Pacific Humpback Whale Song - Ellen Garland, PhD, University of St Andrews
South Pacific Humpback Whale Song - Beth Goodwin, Jupiter Research Foundation
Wave Glider Europa’s Multi-year Open Ocean Survey Of Humpback Whales - Ralph Lee Hopkins, Ralph Lee Hopkins Photography and Lindblad Expeditions
Whale Tales 2021 – A Look Back At Five Years Of Photo Expeditions - Mike Korostelev, Whale Watching Russia
Whale’s Photographer – Encounters that Can Change Your Life - Anke Kügler, Marine Biology Graduate Program, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
What male humpback whale song chorusing can reveal about their ecology
- Marc Lammers, PhD, Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary
The Occurrence of Humpback Whales in the NWHI Revealed Through a Marine Drone - Ed Lyman, Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary
The Science Behind Large Whale Entanglement Response - Joseph Mobley, PhD, University of Hawaii at Manoa
2019-20 Humpback Whale Aerial Survey Project - Flip Nicklin, Whale Trust and National Geographic
Whale Tales, A Chance to Tell Our Story - Ralph Pace, Ralph Pace Photography and Whale Trust
Whales of Monterey - Debbie Patton, Captain Steve’s Rafting
Humpback Birth Video, Update - Roger Payne, PhD, Ocean Alliance
- Brian Skerry, Brian Skerry Photography and National Geographic
Secrets of the Whales - Kate Stafford, PhD, University of Washington
Listening to a Changing Arctic - Andrew Stevenson, Whales Bermuda
What Are The Humpback Whales Doing in Bermuda? - Jason Sturgis, Open Ocean Productions and Whale Trust
SD To HD. 4K To 8K. Advancing Camera Technology and How it has Helped Whale Research - Hal Whitehead, PhD, Dalhousie University
The Cultural Lives of Sperm Whales - Dave Wiley, PhD, Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary
Using Advanced Technologies to Explore the Underwater Behavior of Humpback Whales
Global Check-In Speakers
- Jo Marie Acebes, DVM, PhD, Balyena at Lumba sa Pilipinas
Northern Luzon, Philippines - Jan Booch, Photographer
Maui, Hawai’i - Ted Cheeseman, HappyWhale
Santa Cruz, California - Jens Currie, Pacific Whale Foundation
Maui, Hawai’i - Olga Filatova, PhD, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russia - John Ford, PhD, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, British Columbia - Oscar Frey, Deep Blue Conservancy
Puerto Vallarta, Bahía de Banderas, México - Chris Gabriele, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
Gustavus, Alaska - Nan Hauser, Center for Cetacean Research & Conservation
Rarotonga, Cook Islands - Douglas Hoffman, Douglas J. Hoffman Photography
Maui, Hawai’i - Ralph Lee Hopkins, Lindblad Expeditions and National Geographic
Charlotte, North Carolina - Erich Hoyt, IUCN Marine Mammal Protected Areas Task Force and Whale and Dolphin Conservation
Dorset, England - Meagan Jones, PhD, and Haley Robb, Whale Trust
Maui, Hawai’i - Mark Kelley, Mark Kelley Photography
Juneau, Alaska - Iain Kerr, Ocean Alliance
Gloucester, Massachusetts - Nozomi Kobayashi, PhD, Okinawa Churashima Research Center
Okinawa, Japan
- Laura Lauta van Aysma, University of Leiden
Netherlands - John Moran, Auke Bay Laboratories/NOAA Fisheries
Juneau, Alaska - Putu Liza Mustika, PhD, Cetacean Sirenian Indonesia
Indonesia - Flip Nicklin, Whale Trust
Auke Bay, Alaska - Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara, PHD, Tethys Research Institute
Milano, Italy - Adam Pack, PhD, The UH Hilo Marine Mammal Laboratory
Hilo Hawai’i - Chandra P. Salgado Kent, PhD, Oceans Blueprint
Western Australia - Richard Sears, Mingan Island Cetacean Study
Mingan Island, Quebec - Mariano Sironi, PhD, Instituto de Conservación de Ballenas
Buenos Aires, Argentina - Renata S. Sousa-Lima, PhD, Laboratory of Bioacoustics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte
Natal, Brazil - Jan Straley, University of Alaska Southeast, Sitka Campus
Sitka, Alaska - Dipani Sutaria, PhD, Marine Mammal Research and Conservation Network of India
India - Jorge Urbán, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur
La Paz, Baja California Sur, México - Caroline Weir, PhD, Falklands Conservation
Falkland Islands - Randall Wells, PhD, Chicago Zoological Society’s Sarasota Dolphin Research Program
Sarasota, Florida - Marty Wolff, Marty Wolff Fine Art Photography
Maui, Hawai’i
Kid’s Corner
- Magen Shifiliti, Eat Less Plastic
Eat Less Plastic - Patty Miller, Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary
Humpback Whales 101 – Whale To Scale - Shelby Brown, Whale Trust
How Do We Tell Whales Apart? - Kim Nesbitt, Linblad Expeditions
Welcome to Alaska - Haley Robb, Whale Trust
Humpback Whale Song - Jayme Cellitioci, Ocean Innovators
Wonder is My Compass - George Kahumoku Jr.
Ocean Ambassador Abby Rogers Interviews Uncle George
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CONTACT US
Phone:
(808)572-5700
E-mail:
whaletales@whaletrust.org
Mailing Address:
PO Box 243
Makawao, Hawaii 96768
Whale Tales is a community outreach event produced by Whale Trust, a 501(c)(3) based in Maui, Hawaii. Our tax ID is 91-2144632. Please make checks payable to Whale Trust and note Whale Tales in the memo.