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...group of colonists Uncle Sam was placing in the Matanuska Valley. In 1979, after four years of research, Juneau whale biologist Chuck Juraz proved that humpback whales migrate between Alaska and Hawaii, using Alaska for feeding grounds and Hawaii...
...from the University of Alaska and the National Park Service are assisting on the team. Glacier Bay National Park whale biologists identified the calf's mother this week as Whale 525, first identified in Southeast Alaska in 1979, Jensen said...
...factor pushing a genetically unique family of Prince William Sound whales closer to extinction, according to area whale biologists and environmentalists. "It's more of the same bad news," said biologist Craig Matkin, of the North Gulf Oceanic...
...group. "It was great," he said. "It's whale soup out there." Dupler has come to recognize many individual whales. Biologists Jan Straley and Chris Gabrielle have published an identification catalogue that includes 700 animals that have been...
...as sea lions," said Kelly, a Juneau-based professor with the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Kris Gabriel, a whale biologist for Glacier Bay National Park, said she once saw sea lions disrupt a group of humpbacks that had formed a bubble...
...25 sea lions are left. Seal rookeries in British Columbia were also wiped out, said Alexandra Morton, a B.C. whale biologist on Vancouver Island's Inside Passage. Morton became an outspoken opponent of salmon farms in 1993, when she noticed...
...for DDTs in fish is 5 parts per million. ``We need to figure out where they're coming from,'' said killer whale biologist Craig Matkin, the study's chief investigator. ``These are long-lasting things and if we want to change things...
...were identified by their tail flukes. "It gets more and more gratifying all the time," said Chris Gabriele, a whale biologist at Glacier Bay. "We have mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers." There were no reports of boat strikes...
...affect the few whales left. That means finding out how many whales there are and where they go, said Alex Zerbini, a whale biologist with the National Marine Mammal Laboratory in Seattle. "We don't know whether these whales actually move to the...
...second and last big group of colonists sent to the Matanuska Valley. In 1979, after four years of research, Juneau whale biologist Chuck Juraz proved that humpback whales migrate between Alaska and Hawaii, using Alaska for feeding grounds and Hawaii...