The National Marine Fisheries Service is collecting and compiling
whale sightings data from citizen science, industry, sanctuaries, and others along the entire west coast.
Not exact matches
To estimate
whale density, we conducted visual line transect surveys along four north - south and four east - west tracklines (i.e., long shore and perpendicular) using standard line - transect methods [22] and analyzed
sighting data with Distance (V5.0), using the conventional distance sampling analysis engine [23].
Relaying
whale ID photos and
sightings data to the Marine Education and Research Society and DFO's Cetacean Research Program.
Since 1999, specially trained Channel Islands Naturalist Corps (CINC) volunteers have collected opportunistic marine mammal
sightings data while on board participating
whale watch and park concessionaire vessels.
These two apps can be downloaded on smartphones and tablets, and allow users to collect
whale sightings in the field and upload
data to a cloud server, improving real - time
data collection.
Supplementing the acoustic
data are visual
sightings of orcas as they pass OrcaLab, and reports from land observation sites during the summer «season» as well as reports from other researchers and
whale watchers who share observations and information.
Click the map on the right to see an enlarged view of the US government
data for killer
whale sightings in July.