Archived Announcements

CRC’s Dr. Robin Baird discusses human impacts on Hawai’i’s marine mammals on the Deep Dive into Water Safety podcast (June 15, 2026)
CRC’s Dr. Robin Baird participates in Olympia Country and Golf Club panel discussion on killer whale captures in the 1970s (May 14, 2026)
Follow this link to watch PBS SoCal’s “Earth Focus: Examining the Impact of Sound on Marine Life”. This episode features a project Cascadia is a major collaborator on. It was filmed in October 2024 and headed by Brandon Southall of Southall Environmental Associates. Cascadia provided observers and handled the small boat operations deploying hydrophones, operating the sound source, and collecting biopsy samples and included CRC researchers John Calambokidis, James Fahlbusch, Hannah Clayton, and Alex Vanderzee. (May 11, 2026)
Read about the 61-foot subadult male fin whale that stranded on Samish Island on May 5th, 2026. (May 7, 2026)
The alarmingly high number of gray whale strandings in Washington has continued throughout April, for a total of 16 dead gray whales as of April 28. We have added a working list of gray whale strandings on our website that will be updated as details become available. (April 28, 2026)
Listen to CRC’s John Calambokidis join Think Out Loud to discuss the gray whale population and strandings in our region (April 24, 2026)
Early season sightings and strandings of gray whales in Washington indicate this species is in more trouble than we thought. Read on to learn more about these cases and the status of the species. (April 13, 2026)
A surprising number of early-season strandings of gray whales have put them in the news recently. You can learn more about the species by reading our recently published species account on the Encyclopedia of Puget Sound website (April 10, 2026)
Examination conducted of gray whale in Willapa River (April 7, 2026)
Recording available of Cascadia scientists giving lightning talks on whales at Seattle Aquarium (March 13, 2026)
Cascadia’s John Calambokidis featured on the Naturally Scott podcast (December 29, 2025)
Cascadia’s 2025 Year in Review (December 29, 2025)
Seminar on the science and conservation of Hawai‘i’s false killer whales now available online (December 28, 2025)
140 feet of fishing gear removed from humpback whale in the Strait of Juan de Fuca (November 21, 2025)
Cascadia Research part of effort to rescue stranded entangled whale in Oregon (November 19, 2025)
‘The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52’ was recently added to the Netflix lineup in late October 2025. Learn more about the acclaimed documentary and the role Cascadia played in an expedition to locate the whale (November 7, 2025)
Malama Kai Foundation Reef Talk on spinner dolphin tagging in Hawai’i now available online (October 30, 2025)
Cascadia featured in Hawaiʻi Public Radio piece on endangered false killer whales (September 9, 2025)
The Evergreen State College honors Cascadia’s John Calambokidis with Joseph Albert Dear Distinguished Alumni Award (September 4, 2025)
Cascadia’s second successful disentanglement in just over a month in the Salish Sea. Unfortunately for the whale, it was also its second successful disentanglement in just over a month… (August 22, 2025)
Recording available from Oregon State University Marine Mammal Institute presentation on spinner dolphin tagging (August 18, 2025)
Honolulu Civil Beat article features Cascadia’s research on declining false killer whale abundance (August 14, 2025)
Recording available from Hatfield Marine Science Center Summer Research Seminar on false killer whale management (August 12, 2025)
Whale freed from life-threatening entanglement in the Salish Sea (July 21, 2025)
Surprising number of gray whale strandings in Washington in 2025 are ahead of normal pace and suggest a possible continuation of elevated mortality (May 6, 2025)
Cascadia’s John Calambokidis featured in ABC World News article about whale swallowing kayaker (February 14, 2025)
Cascadia research on false killer whale fisheries interactions featured in Environment Hawai’i article (January 6, 2025)
Cascadia paper on fisheries injuries among endangered Hawaiian false killer whales featured in Civil Beat article (December 12, 2024)
Minke whale found dead in Tacoma was killed by a ship (November 27, 2024)
Recordings from Cascadia 45th anniversary party on October 12th (October 7, 2024)
Online silent auction to raise funds open until October 13th at 6pm PDT (September 30, 2024)
Maui talk on endangered false killer whales available online (July 19, 2024)
Presentation on July 18th about Hawaiʻi’s endangered false killer whales (June 26, 2024)
Cascadia featured in new documentary about the recovery of humpback and gray whale populations along the West Coast (June 14, 2024)
Cascadia featured in new documentary about gray whales (June 12, 2024)
Post-unusual mortality event monitoring begins in Washington State with the examination of 2 dead gray whales and an entangled gray whale response (April 19, 2024)
Talk on the science and conservation of false killer whales (November 3, 2023)
Presentation on false killer whales in Hawai‘i by Robin Baird (July 31, 2023)
Malnutrition a significant finding in the examinations of three recently stranded gray whales (June 26, 2023)
Sounders trading cards now available (May 15, 2023)
New names for the Sounders gray whales (April 6, 2023)
Changes and New Names For Sounder Gray Whales (March 30, 2023)
Ryan et al paper on blue whales featured on SciShow (December 22, 2022)
Second whale ship strike mortality in Washington State in October confirmed (October 11, 2022)
Cascadia participates in minke whale necropsy (October 10, 2022)
Enrico Corsi featured on Marine Mammal Science Podcast (August 10, 2022)
Cascadia at the 24th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals (July 31, 2022)
Robin Baird giving presentation on science and management of Hawaiian dolphins and whales (July 25, 2022)
John Calambokidis gives talk on the return of large whales to the Salish Sea (April 15, 2022)
Jordan Lerma speaking at Whale Tales (March 16, 2022)
John Calambokidis featured in NPR story on the Sounders (February 15, 2022)
Robin Baird giving presentation on Hawai‘i work for ACS Monterey Bay (January 27, 2022)
Michaela Kratofil featured on Marine Mammal Science Podcast (October 28, 2021)
Enrico Corsi featured on Whale Scientists Blog (September 17, 2021)
John Calambokidis gives interview for the Saving Ocean Wildlife Podcast (August 26, 2021)
Cascadia welcomes new operations manager Corinne Holland (July 19, 2021)
John Calambokidis gives interview for The Whalenerd’s Podcast (June 4, 2021)
John Calambokidis interviewed about gray whales by NPR station KUOW (March 2, 2021)
Dr. Robin Baird to speak at HMSC Virtual Research Seminar Thursday, January 28 (January 26, 2021)
Seattle Times story on plunging ENP gray whale population features Cascadia Research (January 20, 2021)
Lāna‘i false killer whale encounter reported on Newsweek (December 9, 2020)
Maui Nui Field Project featured by USA Today’s For the Win (December 7, 2020)
Recent loss of two key people in Cascadia Research (June 29, 2020)
John Calambokidis to give talk on return of humpbacks in the Salish Sea for Harbor Wildwatch on Wednesday 20 May at 6pm (May 18, 2020)
Robin Baird to give talk on Hawaiian whales and dolphins May 1st as part of National Marine Sanctuary Webinar Series (April 28, 2020)
Northwest News Network: Interivew with John Calambokidis about gray whales. (March 10, 2020)
Sounder gray whale 531 is added to the list of ID’d grays in Northern Puget Sound! (March 9, 2020)
Robin Baird’s talk on O‘ahu’s resident year-round whales and dolphins is available on Youtube (March 3, 2020)
Robin Baird to speak on whales and dolphins of Papahānaumokuākeaat the Waikiki Aquarium February 4th (January 28, 2020)
BBC show The Whale Detective on January 8, 2020 highlights some of Cascadia’s work in California. (January 6, 2020)
Fin whale tagged off of Catalina Island on October 22, 2019 (November 10,2019)
John Calambokidis to present at Oregon Sea Grant’s State of the Coast Conference (November 9, 2019)
Cascadia presented with Community Citizenship Award by the League of Women Voters of Thurston County (October 26, 2019)
NW News Network article on blue whale sighting (August 13, 2019)
John Calambokidis to present at South Sound Surfrider chapter meeting, August 8, 2018 in Tacoma(August 7, 2019)
Rare sighting of blue whales off the Washington coast. (August 1, 2019).
Presentation on return of humpbacks to the Salish Sea: July 16, 2019 Shelton, Washington (July 15, 2019)
Emaciated gray whale found dead in Southern Puget Sound over holiday weekend (July 9, 2019)
Blue whale off Los Angeles yields surprising insights (July 9, 2019)
Cascadia continues to investigate record numbers of strandings (June 26, 2019)
Cascadia and other Washington stranding network organizations continue to respond to growing number of dead gray whales. (May 10, 2019)
Cascadia’s long time researcher, Gretchen Steiger passes away (April 16, 2019)
John Calambokidis awarded Leadership in Conservation Award by the Washington Chapter of the Wildlife Society (February 28, 2019)
Climate Conversations: John Calambokidis to speak at Stream Team’s Climate Conversations at Olympia’s City Hall (February 15, 2019)
Talk on Hawai’i’s resident whales and dolphins at the Moloka’i Library(December 19 2018)
Channel Islands Maritime Museum Speaker Series – John Calambokidis to speak (August 15 2018)
John Calambokidis receives Environmental Protection Award (April 30 2018)
Entangled gray whale largely freed after unusual chain of events – Cascadia and SR3 (April 15 2018)
Welcome the Whales parade and festival – John Calambokidis talks on gray whales (April 14 2018)
Entangled dead gray whale found on WA coast examined by Cascadia (April 13 2018)
John Calambokidis joins California Ocean Alliance fundraiser (April 2018)
Update on current gray whale research – John Calambokidis at the Port Angeles Library (April 10 2018)
Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference presentations (April 6 2018)
Cascadia presents at Northwest Science Association annual meeting (March 28 2018)
Lāna‘i’s resident whales and dolphins: Presentation with Dr. Robin Baird (February 22 2018)
Giants of the Salish Sea presentation at Lacey Community Center (February 8 2018)
More gray whales risking their lives for shrimp cocktail – Halifax 2017 and Science magazine article (October 31 2017)
Article in The Point Reyes Light on whale ship strikes (August 31 2017)
Cascadia and others assist in rescue of stranded juvenile gray whale (August 19 2017)
Scripps Institute of Oceanography and Cascadia conduct acoustic research using archival tags (July 13 2017)
Golden Gate humpback whales tagged in research effort (July 31 2017)
Why Don’t Whales Get Out of the Way? – Hakai magazine article on ship strikes (July 27 2017)
Talk on Hawai’i’s whales and dolphins at Mokupāpapa, Hilo (June 28 2017)
Kona Science Cafe: Oasis in a Desert Sea with Robin Baird (June 19 2017)
New Giants of the Salish Sea – John Calambokidis presentation and “Big Mama” inflatable humpback whale replica (June 5 2017)
ID page on the NPS gray whale individuals – the “Sounders” (May 24 2017)
Cascadia comments on the Air Force planned weapons system evaluation program off Kaua’i (May 23 2017)
Photos from the Procession of the Species 2017 and past years (May 15 2017)
John Calambokidis talks whales at Science Cafe of Olympia – free event (May 9 2017)
Robin Baird talk and book signing at 2017 Hawaii Book and Music Festival Honolulu (May 6 2017)
Whale in vessel collision on 23 April 2017 identified (Apr 26 2017)
John Calambokidis talk on humpback and gray whales in the Salish Sea – The Whale Trail (Apr 20 2017)
Sea Talk – Dr. Robin W. Baird: The Lesser Known Whales and Dolphins of Hawaii (Apr 17 2017)
John Calambokidis presents results of impact of ship strikes and ship noise on blue whales at ONR annual review (Mar 20 2017)
In Search of Hawaii’s Mysterious False Killer Whales – Civil Beat article on our research team (Mar 17 2017)
Sound Waters University – John Calamabokidis Presentation (Feb 4 2017)
2017 Southern California Marine Mammal Workshop – John Calambokidis Keynote Speaker (Jan 28 2017)
Orca Network Ways of Whales Workshop – John Calambokidis – New insights into the “Sounders” local gray whales (Jan 21 2017)
Friends of Skagit Beaches Lecture Series – The Whales are Coming! John Calambokidis (Jan 20 2017)
New book: The Lives of Hawai`i’s Dolphins and Whales by Robin W. Baird (Nov 2016)
Angela Szesciorka recipient of NOAA Nancy Foster Scholarship (30 June 2016)
New results on N Puget Sound gray whales see Cascadia’s Youtube channel for videos (1 April 2016)

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