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Whale Song is Off Again!

July 24, 2014 After an anxious day commissioning our new but recycled crane we were good to go and at 1905 we dropped the lines and made for the high seas!   With full bellies of First-Night-Out Pasta and leaving the bright lights of the Fishing Boat Harbour we left the jetty turning to starboard […]

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SPECIAL EDITION

DAY 11 WAVES – ADDITIONAL ISSUE   On the morning of Day 11, 09/01/2014, the WAVES team successfully deployed two specialised tags on humpback whales  “Round” and “Wobble”.  The tags are brand new, called LIMPET tags (Low Impact Minimally Percutaneous External-electronics Transmitter) and report not only geographic location but dive profile data.  This type of […]

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Whale Song Antarctic Voyage for Ecosystem Studies

Whale Song Antarctic Voyage for Ecosystem Studies (WAVES)   The Voyage Curt and Micheline Jenner are Co-Principal Investigators at the Centre for Whale Research (Western Australia) Inc., and Explorers Club Members (FI’10).  They are leading a new expedition to the Southern Ocean near the Antarctic ice shelf to monitor blue whales and their feeding habitat using […]

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New Video Diary 21/08/2013

Satellite Tags as Explained by Prof. Russ Andrews        

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New Video Diary 14/08/2013

  Watch our latest video diary  –  Dwarf Minke Whales of the Great Barrier Reef  by clicking on the link below: CWR Video Diaries    

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Why Study Blue Whales Anyways?

Curt Jenner, Managing Director of CWR, recently responded to a reader who asked  – What does studying blue whales and collecting this new information allow us to do for our planet?   Well, we believe this is as “big picture” as it gets.  Our study examines the core ecosystem issues that drive the southern ocean […]

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