The Orca Man Podcast

Marine mammals are fantastic, but in order to keep track of them and make sure they're safe we need to know when people see them. Enter: Salma, the previous GIS Specialist and Sightings Network Coordinator for The Whale Museum. Get to learn more about the work that goes into keeping this 40+ year old sightings database alive and shifts in the data and demographics happening today. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Whale Museum https://whalemuseum.org/ Doris Duke Conservation Scholars (Applications open until Feb 1st) http://uwconservationscholars.org/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Salma's Twitter @stabdelraheem https://twitter.com/stabdelraheem ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏰TIMESTAMPS⏰ 0:00 Intro to Salma 4:11 Creating the GIS Coordinator position 10:31 Orca Master Report 19:43 Sighting and alert systems across boarders 31:37 Recognizing observer input 42:48 Dynamic changes in the field, TWM and SJI 52:22 Whale politics and Databases 57:27 The Future for Salma and Sightings Data 1:04:18 Closing out ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ My Socials

It is amazing how while you've known someone for so long, there are many ways they can still surprise you. Join me this episode while my mother and I surprise each other with retellings of times we've shared from New Zealand to our family home in Massachusetts. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Far From Eden Podcast https://linktr.ee/farfromedenpodcast ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏰TIMESTAMPS⏰ 0:00 Meet my mom 2:06 Swimming 8:03 Parenting, Teaching and Sustaining Passion 14:05 Meandering Passion 17:43 Orca-centric 25:00 Passion is joy, and its fun to share 29:30 TikTok 40:08 Spending time together in the Orca World 50:54 The Power of the Stories 56:26 Reacting to Dawn Brancheau 59:44 Why I fell in love with orcas 1:05:23 Closing out ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ My Socials

I've had the pleasure of getting to know Erica Wirth recently and I have the distinct honor of introducing you to her in this episode! As the esteemed host of the Breaching Extinction podcast, Erica has been a part of the naturalist world for quite some time now. Ranging from Florida to Manitoba to the San Juan Islands and now Monterey she has been privy to a wide range of both wildlife and guests alike - she also is the mother of maybe the best animal in the world… Peaches. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Erica Wirth Breaching Extinction https://www.breachingextinction.com/ Instagram: @breachingextinction https://www.instagram.com/breachingextinction/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/breachingextinction Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/breachingextinction Vermilion Sea Institute https://vermilionseainstitute.org/ Clearwater Marine Aquarium https://www.cmaquarium.org/

A lot of amazing things have happened since I started this platform, and this episode highlights my favorite development of all. Orcamania hit Vic's (or Ms. Vicky's) elementary school classroom when her students found my TikTok - In the time since they have adopted an orca from the whale museum, watched all of the Free Willy movies, and (albeit outside of Orcamania) stopped the use of plastic straws in school cafeterias in the US's largest county.

Taryn is pretty cool. After being accepted and preforming in one of Canadas largest Orchestras she has found herself in Vancouver, BC working with the MMRU at the University of British Columbia. AND she catches drones, for anyone who needs a drone catcher. In this podcast, we talk about her journey to her current postgrad degree and dive into different questions being asked in one of the most cutting edge marine mammal research groups in the PNW. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Taryn Scarff Taryn Scarff is a Masters Candidate at the University of British Columbia in the Marine Mammal Research Unit studying Transient orca prevalence in the Salish Sea. UBC Marine Mammal Research Unit https://mmru.ubc.ca/personnel/taryn-scarff/ Insta @tarynscarff https://www.instagram.com/tarynscarff/ Twitter @taryn_scarff https://twitter.com/taryn_scarff ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏰TIMESTAMPS⏰ 0:00 Marine Mammal Rescue and Tofino 8:56 Undergrad Research 13:27 Road to UBC, Drumming 23:01 Research Vessel 29:28 Filming Orcas: drones and suction cups 36:15 Transients vs Resident Orcas 38:31 Determining Research Question 46:17 Masters Work 49:09 1 month, 1 boat, 1 washing machine, 9 people 57:07 Odd But Useful Skills 1:01:31 Understanding Transients and Populations 1:07:57 Closing out ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Mentions UBC Marine Mammal Research Unit https://mmru.ubc.ca/ Insta @ubcmarinemammal https://www.instagram.com/ubcmarinemammal/ Marine Mammal Rescue https://mmrpatients.org/ Insta: @marinemammalrescue https://www.instagram.com/marinemammalrescue/ Hakai Institute https://www.hakai.org/ Andrew Trites https://mmru.ubc.ca/personnel/trites/

For this episode Coral and I fret over the idea that we have been friends for 4 years and go over the four years of conferences, trips, snow creations and shifting perspectives throughout university into this year. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Mentions: Andrew Trites https://oceans.ubc.ca/andrew-trites/ Marine Mammal Conference Full Length: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAOjcEmzP2E My Presentation: https://youtu.be/B9TKnOaMOfU ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Coral Diversity Reads Podcast Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0qR7aGcHxVlav7vARJl9gv?si=2mOAbfGYRhibKjljAtOdpg

Michaela Mansholt is a wildlife photographer, content creator and student at the University of Alaska Southeast. In this episode of the podcast we talk about her journey north from Southern California, the cascading effects of captivity, and the ever growing world of whale people. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Mentions: Newport Coastal Adventure http://www.newportcoastaladventure.com/ Lolita Save Lolita: https://www.savelolita.org/ The Whale Sanctuary Project: https://whalesanctuaryproject.org/ Jason Colby's talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbdlAHOOTCQ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Michaela Mansholt Wildlife Photography Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cetaceanation/ Business: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pacificsea.co/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHJCdJ3OeJug6LhzkM0goEQ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@michaelamansholt?lang=en ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ My Socials

With this episode you will gain a little insight into the life of Kendra Nelson, the donut layout of the Pacific Northwest, as well as the small trials and tribulations of wanting to move around the PNW during covid. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Mentions: One Ocean Diving https://oneoceandiving.com/ Donuts Lucky's: https://49thcafe.com/ Lee's: https://www.leesdonuts.ca/ Krispy Kreme: https://krispykreme.ca/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Kendra Nelson Instagram: IntertidalKendy https://www.instagram.com/intertidalkendy/ Podcast: Intertidal Talks https://open.spotify.com/show/2kQ74EsYhJYDjSyQbdKdSH?si=btfxX7JwSjefaUcx50UJ4w Marine Bio Movie Club: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCamUuJm__46cFvAJmi-GfYA/featured ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ My Socials

Dr. Steven Ness is a major contributor of the Orchive, the largest digitized collection of Orca acoustic data in the world based out of OrcaLab in British Columbia. In this episode we talk about how he got involved and some of the intricacies of putting it together as well as the current space for people interested in advancing this work. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Mentions: Orca Lab: https://orcalab.org/ Orchive: http://orchive.cs.uvic.ca/ John Ford's NRKW call catalog https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285709635_A_catalogue_of_underwater_calls_produced_by_killer_whales_Orcinus_orca_in_British_Columbia ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Steven Ness YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/StevenNess/featured Start Up https://folding.ai A performance at UVIC: https://vimeo.com/10279625 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ My Socials

After meeting on TikTok Liam and I talk about the intricacies of life on San Juan Island, must see restaurants around the Pacific Northwest, and film locations you may not have known of. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Restaurants Mentioned: Haley's Sports Bar and Grille https://www.facebook.com/Haleys-Sports-Bar-and-Grill-196646283873160/ Blue Water Cafe https://www.bluewaterandgrill.com/ San Juan Lanes Bar and Grill https://www.facebook.com/sanjuanlanes/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Liam's Socials

For the first episode of this podcast/talkshow I talk with my dad about the experiences he had raising a child obsessed with Orcas, and further the experiences we've been able to share involving this great species. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ People Mentioned: John Ford https://mmru.ubc.ca/personnel/john-ford/ Cameron Lee-Ming https://www.cameronleeming.com Ingrid Visser https://www.orcaresearch.org/index.php/research/our-team Howard Garrett http://www.orcanetwork.org/contact/contact.html Ken Balcomb https://www.whaleresearch.com/ourpeople ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Organizations Mentioned: The Whale Museum https://whalemuseum.org/ The Whale Trail https://thewhaletrail.org/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Socials

Hello! It's Fred here also known as OrcaMan thanks to TikTok. I created this platform, The OrcaMan podcast as well as my other platforms as a place to curate my passion for... you guessed it. Orcas. I have spent the last 19 years familiarizing myself with their world, and my little obsession has given me more joy in my life than I know what to do with. So, I plan on sharing that joy... with you. I hope you join me on this amazing journey and maybe, just maybe, you'll come to love them as much as I do.