From bhrian at cox.net Sun Feb 1 08:01:36 2009 From: bhrian at cox.net (Bhrian Resnik) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 08:01:36 -0800 Subject: [CINC] CX 1/31 Message-ID: <000001c98486$5c2cbe10$14863a30$@net> 2 Grays 6 Risso's 300, 1000 Commons 25 passengers embarked on a cool, foggy morning with moderate seas heading towards SRI. Fortunately, about 10 miles out the fog cleared and we had sunny skies, unfortunately, the wind and seas continued to build and several passengers were not doing so well. We encountered the Grays as they were heading E towards the gap and stayed with them for about 45min. On the way to painted cave Cpt Mat spotted the Risso's, they came right to the bow of the boat and put on quite a show to everyone's delight. It was a special day for me because Barbara LaCorte, my mentor, was the other Naturalist. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We shared our room with Santa Barbara Botanic Garden volunteers, who brought flora (including CI plants) and fauna samples to examine under microscopes. It was great to connect with the community as always. Debra **************From Wall Street to Main Street and everywhere in between, stay up-to-date with the latest news. (http://aol.com?ncid=emlcntaolcom00000023) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Deb4nb at aol.com Sun Feb 1 11:59:36 2009 From: Deb4nb at aol.com (Deb4nb at aol.com) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 14:59:36 EST Subject: [CINC] Correction Re: Foothill School Science Night 1/29/09 Message-ID: Of course I meant 09! :-) In a message dated 2/1/2009 11:30:58 AM Pacific Standard Time, Deb4nb at aol.com writes: Carol Celic and I had such a fun visit at Foothill School in Goleta Thursday night 1/29/08. **************From Wall Street to Main Street and everywhere in between, stay up-to-date with the latest news. 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Shortly thereafter we spotted the lone Fin which gave a couple of fleeting looks before going down for a deeper dive. We had a couple more common dolphin sightings as we returned to Ventura. The afternoon trip was a full boat. It completely sold out and there were 149 passengers aboard. Included were visitors from Canada, Germany, Indiana, Nebraska, New York and Michigan. Also among the throngs were 14 post graduate biochemistry students attending a conference in Ventura. There were from institutions such as Dartmouth, Cornell, Duke, Wayne State, Penn State and Virginia Tech. There were undoubtedly other colleges represented but with 149 passengers it was difficult to engage all of them. Given the intellectual firepower aboard the boat I thought long and hard about everything I was about to say. The fear of looking stupid ran rampant through my brain. All kidding aside, it was a wonderful group of passengers. 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Thanks to those of you who signed up to go on an optional, all-day field trip on *Saturday, May 16th* aboard the *Condor Express* to learn more about *seabird identification*. From this point forward, the Condor Express will be handling all the reservations, and so what you need to do is _either call them or drop by and leave a deposit of $20_. You can call them at *963-3564* and give them your credit card information, or stop by their office at Sea Landing, at the far eastern end of Santa Barbara Harbor. You are welcome to have friends join in on this trip (the more people there are, the less expensive it will be). Please be sure to pay your deposit to the Condor Express *soon*, so that they can reserve the boat for that day. You will be asked to pay the balance of the fare on the day of the trip. Depending on how many people sign up to go, it could be anywhere between $50-$100 per person. Thanks for taking care of this soon! 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Plus, visitors can read logs of oceanographic expeditions, see old film clips from the heyday of Jacques-Yves Cousteau and check daily Navy maps of sea temperatures. For nerds like me, this promises to be a drool-inducing thing of beauty. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/science/earth/03oceans.html?_r=1 _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live?: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_allup_explore_022009 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Deb4nb at aol.com Wed Feb 4 15:17:03 2009 From: Deb4nb at aol.com (Deb4nb at aol.com) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 18:17:03 EST Subject: [CINC] Anacapa Island 2/3/09 Message-ID: Anacapa Island Trip 2/3/09 Boat: IPCO's Islander Crew: Capt. Dave, Capt. Anthony, Dawn, Danielle Cetaceans: 1000 Common dolphins (Dc) Passengers: 33 Elderhostel, approx. 28 Open Party Weather: Calm, beautiful, warm, sunny AI Ranger: Randy Nelson Worth mentioning: Capt. Anthony spotted 2 Xantus's Murrelets which were awesome to see in flight. Rick Koppell and I divided Elderhostel with Marjorie Spielman (Elderhostel leader), and Danielle led open party visitors. Western gulls are staking out territory for their 2009 breeding season! A red-tailed hawk kept the gulls in a state of uproar during much of the day. A peregrine falcon, one lone ladybug beetle, side-blotched lizards, Bewick's wren, and white-crowned sparrow were also seen. Plants in bloom include giant coreopsis (some not all), red paintbrush, wild cucumber, Northern island tree mallow, sand spurrey, and wild hyacinth. No Grays spotted except for when I was driving down 101, I saw 2 definite blows/spouts off the coast. In order to keep eyes on the road, I couldn't see much more than that. 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Valerie Olson Ronald Adamson From Clare.Fritzsche at noaa.gov Wed Feb 4 15:53:21 2009 From: Clare.Fritzsche at noaa.gov (Clare Fritzsche) Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:53:21 -0800 Subject: [CINC] SET meeting Feb 11 at CINP headquarters conference room Message-ID: <498A2A71.3090000@noaa.gov> /A public meeting announcement/* ************************************************************* *The role of the Sanctuary Education Team is to advise and make recommendations to the Sanctuary Advisory Council on marine educational issues related to the Sanctuary**.* *DATE:* *Wednesday, February 11, 2009* *TIME:* *5:30pm to 7:00pm* *LOCATION:* Channel Islands National Park Headquarters Conference Room, 2nd Floor 1901 Spinnaker Drive, Ventura, CA 93001 (805) 658-5732 * AGENDA:* * Identify best outreach approaches to top 9 "frequent flyer" vessel agents * refine education and outreach questionnaire for shipping industry * Updates from members regarding: Images for education and outreach materials & survey tools *DIRECTIONS:* _Coming from the south_: Take US-101 North. Exit on VICTORIAt., turn LEFT. Turn RIGHT on OLIVAS PARK ROAD. Continue west on OLIVAS PARK road to Ventura harbor. OLIVAS PARK ROAD turns into SPINNAKER DRIVE. Continue into Ventura Harbor on SPINNAKER ROAD to Channel Islands National Park Visitor Center. Do not park in stalls with green curbs - these are for boat slip owners only. _Coming from the north_: Take US-101 south. Exit on SEAWARD., turn LEFT on HARBOR BLVD. Turn RIGHT on SPINNAKER DRIVE into Ventura Harbor. Continue into Ventura Harbor on SPINNAKER ROAD to Channel Islands National Park Visitor Center. Do not park in stalls with green curbs - these are for boat slip owners only. * * -- Julie Bursek Education and Outreach Coordinator Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Ventura County Field Office 3600 S. Harbor Blvd., Suite 111 Oxnard, CA 93035 (805) 382-6149 x101 (805) 382-9791 fax http://channelislands.noaa.gov -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Shauna.Bingham at noaa.gov Wed Feb 4 17:11:09 2009 From: Shauna.Bingham at noaa.gov (Shauna.Bingham at noaa.gov) Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:11:09 -0800 Subject: [CINC] Feb.10 & 11 FSTS Lectures: Renowned Researcher Shares Survival Strategies for Open Water Fishes Message-ID: <9c44be55fc46df1.4989cc2d@noaa.gov> Channel Islands National Park News Release February 4, 2009 For Immediate Release Yvonne Menard, Channel Islands National Park (805) 658-5725 Shauna Bingham, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (805) 382-6151 #102 Renowned Researcher Shares Survival Strategies of Open Water Fishes During the February "From Shore to Sea" lectures Dr. Milton Love, with University of California Santa Barbara?s Marine Science Institute, will provide insights on how fish adapt in the open ocean environment including how rockfish settle at oil platforms. >From sharks to salmon, from sardines to shortbelly rockfish, the fishes that occupy the water column of the Santa Barbara Channel form an important part of the ocean food web. The open waters can be a difficult place for sharks and fishes to survive due to slow maturity, predation, and human impacts. Love will also discuss the adaptations that pelagic sharks and fishes use to survive in this fluid and transparent environment, including strategies to maintain buoyancy and defenses to ward off predation. Love, a research biologist, has conducted research on numerous economically important marine fishes in the northeast Pacific, including over 30 years of work on rockfishes. His most recent book is The Rockfishes of the Northeast Pacific. The "From Shore to Sea" lecture series is jointly sponsored by Channel Islands National Park and Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary with generous support from Santa Barbara Maritime Museum. The purpose of the series is to further the understanding of current research on the Channel Islands and surrounding waters. The lectures occur at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 10, 2009, at Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, 113 Harbor Way in the Santa Barbara Harbor and Wednesday, February 11, 2009, at the Channel Islands National Park Robert J. Lagomarsino Visitor Center, 1901 Spinnaker Drive in the Ventura Harbor. The programs are free and open to the public. This publication is available on line at: www.nps.gov/chis/parknews/newsreleases.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Deb4nb at aol.com Wed Feb 4 17:39:44 2009 From: Deb4nb at aol.com (Deb4nb at aol.com) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 20:39:44 EST Subject: [CINC] Name correction Anacapa Island 2/3/09 Message-ID: Hi All, My conscience won't let me go without correcting name misspellings: CINC Island Hiker extraordinaire is Rick Koppel Elderhostel superleader is Margery Spielman Debra **************Stay up to date on the latest news - from sports scores to stocks and so much more. 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Message-ID: Sorry - deadline to register is Feb 10. ****** Does anyone have a good resource to find out more about the sick and injured California Brown Pelicans? Anything recent? I've read opinions ranging from domoic acid to frostbite. By the way, the IBRRC still has room in a couple of wildlife rescue training classes in February. The deadline to register is Feb 8. See web links: http://www.ibrrc.org/pelican_in_peril_sc_2009.html http://www.ibrrc.org/pdfs/Wildlife_response_IBRRC_flyer_SC.pdf Polly Blackburn From cfrench1366 at aol.com Thu Feb 5 07:55:53 2009 From: cfrench1366 at aol.com (Catherine French) Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:55:53 -0500 Subject: [CINC] Islander WW Wednesday, February 4 Message-ID: <8CB55C15C0B8C2C-13A8-783@FWM-D10.sysops.aol.com> IPCO trips: Morning: 5 gray whales in the Santa Cruz/Anacap gap Hundreds of common dolphins seen in pods of 100, 200 and 250 Afternoon: No grays 800+ common dolphins Calm seas, happy people on board from cold climes happy to be in good weather. Catherine French and Captain Lee Fleischer, Naturalists Sincerely, Catherine French cfrench1366 at aol.com 805.815.3523 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From camccleskey at yahoo.com Thu Feb 5 09:36:40 2009 From: camccleskey at yahoo.com (Carolyn McCleskey) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 09:36:40 -0800 (PST) Subject: [CINC] Pelican Perils? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <803402.33734.qm@web33401.mail.mud.yahoo.com> As a volunteer transporter with Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network, along with many other volunteers, I am called on short notice to rescue and bring in many types of birds for care. My reliable source of information is June Taylor, who rehabs all types of seabirds at her backyard seabird pond facility until the new one is finished by the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network.? The last pelican I rescued from Hope Ranch Beach died despite her heroic efforts to rehydrate it.? It was extremely emaciated and a first year juvenile.? She has had many others in the same condition that tried to migrate south from Washington and Oregon and were caught in the cold wave, explaining their frozen feet, and were too weak/inexerienced to feed normally, then too starved to survive when they arrived here. Thankfully, June has saved others? that recover and are ?released.? A pacific loon I brought to her on Jan 1 was in the same condition and didn't survive.? Of course, some die from injuries or inability to feed successfully as juveniles also, but most seem to be victims of the extreme cold weather in the Northwest.? Hope this helps,?? Carolyn --- On Wed, 2/4/09, Polly Blackburn wrote: From: Polly Blackburn Subject: [CINC] Pelican Perils? To: channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org Date: Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 8:23 PM Sorry - deadline to register is Feb 10. ****** Does anyone have a good resource to find out more about the sick and injured California Brown Pelicans? Anything recent? I've read opinions ranging from domoic acid to frostbite. By the way, the IBRRC still has room in a couple of wildlife rescue training classes in February. The deadline to register is Feb 8. See web links: http://www.ibrrc.org/pelican_in_peril_sc_2009.html http://www.ibrrc.org/pdfs/Wildlife_response_IBRRC_flyer_SC.pdf Polly Blackburn _______________________________________________ Channel_islands_naturalist_corps mailing list Channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org http://www.rain.org/mailman/listinfo/channel_islands_naturalist_corps -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From judyw88 at hotmail.com Thu Feb 5 21:27:40 2009 From: judyw88 at hotmail.com (judy w) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 21:27:40 -0800 Subject: [CINC] Coral Sea Feb 2 Message-ID: Monday February 2: Bottlenose pod way out there, 100s of pinnipeds at pinniped point (imagine that :) Ranger 85 is getting a new coat of paint so Monday's trip from CISF was on the Coral Sea. Weather was beautiful, east winds flattening the sea, warm and sunny. But all the way to Anacapa there was no sea life except an occassional sea lion. We passed several groups of birds including gulls, pelicans and cormorants. Come to find out, all of the pinnipeds were hauled out at pinniped point behind the island and out of the wind. A bunch of surf scooters were floating around too. And then Capt. Alex saw some splashing way out, southwest of Anacapa. We found a large pod of 50-60 bottlenose who surfed our bow and stern wakes. We sailed home back around the arch to avoid the wind. There were 11 passengers including 4 boys, who didn't plan the trip together, but a couple of them knew each other from school. It was an in-service day for Oak Park School District. Naturalist Lisa Collier was also on board. 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Many waterfalls coming off SCI Many sea lions seen popping their heads up through-out today's trip A couple Harbor Seals A micro pod of 3 Common Dolphins out off SRI A mini pod of 50 Common Dolphins heading home with 30% babies (some really small newbies) Pelicans still covering the beach and everything at/in SB harbor and also covering every possible ledge they could sit on at SCI Stopped to pick up huge group of yellow balloons lost at sea SCI was extremely surgy so we got no closer than 100 yards to Painted Cave Entrance but saw a waterfall coming down the left side of entrance Other birds included: Heermann's gulls Auklets Royal terns Common Mures Coots Western Grebes Eared Grebes Once back to dock: hundreds of Black Skimmers on the beach (they were down there again today) - we have never seen - they are really cool looking birds! Ring-billed Gulls Snowy egrets Willets Marbled Godwits Sanderlings Black-Crowned Night Herons Sidebar: we were at the beach today (Sunday) where Mission Creek runs to ocean and must have seen 20-30 types of birds; hundreds of some like pelicans and black skimmers and just a few of others like Buffleheads (females) Way more than usual - probably cause of the super high then super low tides and the fresh water from all the rain the past few days Kevin and Toni Bailey -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bucholtz at linguistics.ucsb.edu Sun Feb 8 21:59:13 2009 From: bucholtz at linguistics.ucsb.edu (Mary Bucholtz) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 21:59:13 -0800 Subject: [CINC] CX 2/8/09 Message-ID: 5 gray whales 50 common dolphins 1 Dall's porpoise (brief cameo) Morgan Coffey and I spent the day with 24 eager and warmly dressed passengers hailing from North Carolina, Nebraska, Colorado, and California, among other locales. We set off up the coast toward Gaviota in hopes of encountering an early northward bound whale, but no luck. We then headed to the gap where, fully two hours into our journey, we found our first whales, two adults who gave us some nice looks at their flukes, especially once the sun came out and the wind died down a bit. Things got very exciting when about 50 common dolphins and a similar number of California sea lions, along with lots of gulls and pelicans, showed up to feast on fish in the area. After a quick trip to Painted Cave (where we couldn't approach very closely due to the rough waters), we spent some time with three more grays, who were very comfortable with us, surfacing right next to the boat and generally just chilling out. A few sharp-eyed passengers also got a glimpse of a fast-moving Dall's porpoise. Morgan and I stayed busy answering questions throughout the trip; the passengers were very interested in our information and clearly had a great time despite the initial clouds and choppy waters. Mary Bucholtz From carole at earthlink.net Mon Feb 9 09:27:50 2009 From: carole at earthlink.net (Carole Rosales) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 09:27:50 -0800 Subject: [CINC] Island Adventurer 02 07 09 Message-ID: <380-22009219172750328@earthlink.net> Both trips out of Oxnard were cancelled but a 1PM was added in Ventura. No whales were sited large (1000+) pod of common dolphins seal lions and some harbor seals on the far side of Anacapa 30 passengers delighted to out between rain storms A thousand colors of gray between the skies, the water, and silhouettes of the island Carole Rosales carole at earthlink.net 805 482 0259 (H) 805 405 1681 (C) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Clare.Fritzsche at noaa.gov Mon Feb 9 10:35:26 2009 From: Clare.Fritzsche at noaa.gov (Clare Fritzsche) Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:35:26 -0800 Subject: [CINC] Check out "Marine Map" Message-ID: <4990776E.3030502@noaa.gov> This is a nifty new interactive map on the CINP website, forwarded from Kate Faulkner: All, Rocky has added a link to "Marine Map" from the CHIS web page: http://www.nps.gov/chis/naturescience/naturalfeaturesandecosystems.htm Marine Map is a very easy tool for looking at coastal and marine geography and the distribution of seabirds, kelp, pinnipeds, oil seeps, etc. I expect that more and more data layers will be added to the site, making this even more useful in the future. 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Regards, Scott Cuzzo From islandkayaker at earthlink.net Mon Feb 9 17:51:16 2009 From: islandkayaker at earthlink.net (islandkayaker at earthlink.net) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 17:51:16 -0800 (GMT-08:00) Subject: [CINC] Check out "Marine Map" Message-ID: <31960225.1234230677096.JavaMail.root@elwamui-chisos.atl.sa.earthlink.net> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From islandkayaker at earthlink.net Mon Feb 9 17:51:15 2009 From: islandkayaker at earthlink.net (islandkayaker at earthlink.net) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 17:51:15 -0800 (GMT-08:00) Subject: [CINC] Check out "Marine Map" Message-ID: <32787082.1234230675704.JavaMail.root@elwamui-chisos.atl.sa.earthlink.net> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cathycsandoval at gmail.com Tue Feb 10 10:06:08 2009 From: cathycsandoval at gmail.com (Cathy Sandoval) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:06:08 -0800 Subject: [CINC] Nat. Geog. Shows Message-ID: Upcoming on the N.G. Channel: Feb.12 Morphed Series: When Whales Had Legs 9p.m. Mar.08 Kingdom Of The Blue Whale (with John Calambokidis) 5p.m.? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From judyw88 at hotmail.com Tue Feb 10 19:28:33 2009 From: judyw88 at hotmail.com (judy w) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:28:33 -0800 Subject: [CINC] GBBC next weekend Message-ID: FYI Naturalists: The Great Backyard Bird Count is February 13-16 http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/ It is kind of like Bioblitz, just for birds, nationwide. Its fun, count birds where ever you happen to be; in your backyard or out in the channel. Download a checklist for your zipcode, enter the photo contest. http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/howto.html The website is very throrough, learn a lot about the birds in your neighborhood. _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live?: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_allup_howitworks_022009 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bucholtz at linguistics.ucsb.edu Tue Feb 10 21:21:06 2009 From: bucholtz at linguistics.ucsb.edu (Mary Bucholtz) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:21:06 -0800 Subject: [CINC] UCSB talk on Santa Cruz Island archaeology References: <59ACB712A9209A518F3000CB@gx620base.ucsb.edu> Message-ID: The following event may be of interest. Begin forwarded message: > > ************************************************ > The University of California, Santa Barbara > Department of Anthropology > Presents: > > Island Landscapes of the Middle Holocene: > Perspectives from Santa Cruz Island > > By Dr. Jennifer E. Perry > Department of Anthropology > Pomona College > > Friday, February 13, 2009 > HSSB 2001A > 4:00 pm > > Coastal environments such as the Santa Barbara Channel region tend > to be > associated with high population densities and other hallmarks of > complexity > due to the intersections of available marine and terrestrial > resources. > While there is a strong emphasis on marine resources in the > archaeological > literature of the Channel Islands, the interactions of islanders > with the > surrounding landscapes and their resources have not been fully > explored. > The terrestrial diversity and abundance of Santa Cruz Island make it > an > ideal place to investigate these relationships throughout prehistory. > Drawing from human behavioral ecology and landscape theory, Dr. > Perry will > discuss her research on middle Holocene shell middens on the island's > eastern end and in its distinct Central Valley. In particular, the > Central > Valley offers unique insights into the significance of island > interiors and > terrestrial resources. Together with studies from western Santa Cruz > Island > and the other islands, these settlement and subsistence data highlight > pan-island patterns in seasonal foraging, mobility, and tool > production > during the middle Holocene, which have long-term implications for > island > demography and regional exchange. > > Reception Following the Presentation in HSSB 2024 > > > Susan Cochran > Management Services Officer > Department of Anthropology > University of California, > Santa Barbara > Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3210 > Office: 805-893-4625 > FAX: 805-893-8707 > _______________________________________________ From adamsonr at cox.net Wed Feb 11 16:23:18 2009 From: adamsonr at cox.net (Ronald Adamson) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:23:18 -0800 Subject: [CINC] Need Sub; CX 2/16 Message-ID: <000f01c98ca8$1b289a90$5179cfb0$@net> Hello all, I need to go out of town next week. Can anyone take my two Condor Express whale watch trips Monday Feb 16? Times are 9:00 - 11:30 and 12:00 - 2:30. Thank you, Ronald Adamson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From adamsonr at cox.net Wed Feb 11 17:32:55 2009 From: adamsonr at cox.net (Ronald Adamson) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:32:55 -0800 Subject: [CINC] Need Sub; CX 2/16 Message-ID: <000e01c98cb1$d4940420$7dbc0c60$@net> Hal Altman was the first to reply, so the CX trips on 2/16 are his. Ronald Adamson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From beachcats at sbceo.org Wed Feb 11 19:15:54 2009 From: beachcats at sbceo.org (beachcats at sbceo.org) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:15:54 -0800 Subject: [CINC] UCSB talk on Santa Cruz Island archaeology In-Reply-To: References: <59ACB712A9209A518F3000CB@gx620base.ucsb.edu> Message-ID: <20090211191554.hf5upbsb48cwgwck@www3.sbceo.org> Mary and other Naturalists, I am unable to attend this meeting and I would love to get a copy of the notes. Please share with me if you go. "Poor me" ... I am spending the week on SMI and will miss this most interesting meeting. Thanks in advance for any notes. Inge Rose ----- Message from bucholtz at linguistics.ucsb.edu ----- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:21:06 -0800 From: Mary Bucholtz Subject: [CINC] UCSB talk on Santa Cruz Island archaeology To: channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org > The following event may be of interest. > > Begin forwarded message: >> >> ************************************************ >> The University of California, Santa Barbara >> Department of Anthropology >> Presents: >> >> Island Landscapes of the Middle Holocene: >> Perspectives from Santa Cruz Island >> >> By Dr. Jennifer E. Perry >> Department of Anthropology >> Pomona College >> >> Friday, February 13, 2009 >> HSSB 2001A >> 4:00 pm >> >> Coastal environments such as the Santa Barbara Channel region tend to be >> associated with high population densities and other hallmarks of complexity >> due to the intersections of available marine and terrestrial resources. >> While there is a strong emphasis on marine resources in the archaeological >> literature of the Channel Islands, the interactions of islanders with the >> surrounding landscapes and their resources have not been fully explored. >> The terrestrial diversity and abundance of Santa Cruz Island make it an >> ideal place to investigate these relationships throughout prehistory. >> Drawing from human behavioral ecology and landscape theory, Dr. Perry will >> discuss her research on middle Holocene shell middens on the island's >> eastern end and in its distinct Central Valley. In particular, the Central >> Valley offers unique insights into the significance of island interiors and >> terrestrial resources. Together with studies from western Santa Cruz Island >> and the other islands, these settlement and subsistence data highlight >> pan-island patterns in seasonal foraging, mobility, and tool production >> during the middle Holocene, which have long-term implications for island >> demography and regional exchange. >> >> Reception Following the Presentation in HSSB 2024 >> >> >> Susan Cochran >> Management Services Officer >> Department of Anthropology >> University of California, >> Santa Barbara >> Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3210 >> Office: 805-893-4625 >> FAX: 805-893-8707 >> _______________________________________________ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Channel_islands_naturalist_corps mailing list > Channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org > http://www.rain.org/mailman/listinfo/channel_islands_naturalist_corps > From miramarragamuffin at yahoo.com Thu Feb 12 13:31:24 2009 From: miramarragamuffin at yahoo.com (Deborah Lee Clark) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:31:24 -0800 (PST) Subject: [CINC] Ken Burns preview carpool Message-ID: <145534.13974.qm@web63403.mail.re1.yahoo.com> ? I've been lucky enough to get a pass for this event.????Is anyone willing to carpool from Ojai/Ventura??? Event: Sneak Preview Celebration Event ? The National Parks: America?s Best Idea Date: March 19th 2009 Location: Paramount Ranch, 2813 Cornell Road Agoura Hills CA ? Thanks, Deb Clark -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From camccleskey at yahoo.com Thu Feb 12 13:58:01 2009 From: camccleskey at yahoo.com (Carolyn McCleskey) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:58:01 -0800 (PST) Subject: [CINC] Ken Burns preview carpool In-Reply-To: <145534.13974.qm@web63403.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <886352.99986.qm@web33405.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Hi Deb,? I was lucky also, but coming from S.B.,? so any others that want to make it a party, let me know.? We could always meet in Ventura to go south. Carolyn McCleskey --- On Thu, 2/12/09, Deborah Lee Clark wrote: From: Deborah Lee Clark Subject: Re: [CINC] Ken Burns preview carpool To: "CINC rain list" Date: Thursday, February 12, 2009, 1:31 PM ? I've been lucky enough to get a pass for this event.????Is anyone willing to carpool from Ojai/Ventura??? ? Event: Sneak Preview Celebration Event ? The National Parks: America?s Best Idea Date: March 19th 2009 Location: Paramount Ranch, 2813 Cornell Road Agoura Hills CA ? Thanks, Deb Clark_______________________________________________ Channel_islands_naturalist_corps mailing list Channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org http://www.rain.org/mailman/listinfo/channel_islands_naturalist_corps -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We saw a couple of grays out between AI and SCI, a megapod (1000-2000??) of common dolphin en route, each way, and a few bottlenose, upon our return, right inside the Ventura Marina. A long, but fulfilling day in the Channel was topped off by attending the Shore-to-Sea Lecture on pelagic fish by Dr. Love. As they say, what a "hoot" this man is - informative and excellent stand-up comedy. Polly Blackburn From rustgarden at msn.com Fri Feb 13 10:02:17 2009 From: rustgarden at msn.com (Morgan Coffey) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:02:17 -0800 Subject: [CINC] a valentine topic Message-ID: A fun piece about whale attraction (I can definitely imagine chit chatting about this on a boat come summer) with some links to other interesting reads. http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/02/13/humpback-whale-attraction.html?campaign=w01-101-ae-0002 Enjoy the rain. _________________________________________________________________ Want to do more with Windows Live? 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Want to share this email? Use this link: https://community.hsus.org/humane/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=30885880 Happy Spay Day International! Millions of homeless cats and dogs are euthanized each year. Spay Day International is an annual campaign that aims to inspire people to save animals' lives by spaying or neutering pets and street animals. Celebrate with us by entering your pet's photo in our contest or volunteering at an event in your community!? Secret dealings threaten whales Through a closed-door process launched in 2008, the U.S. Commissioner and International Whaling Commission Chair has been negotiating an agreement within the IWC that will allow whales to be killed in countries? coastal waters for commercial purposes. Read more>> Grey seals spared from slaughter Though the Canadian government authorized the killing of grey seals in=2 0Nova Scotia to begin?last week, sealers have decided not to bother due to a decline in the global market for seal skins. 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Message-ID: <000001c991ee$214c9200$63e5b600$@net> Hi fellow Naturalists, I'm dealing with a pet emergency and will be unavailable to cover my assignment on the CX tomorrow. I am signed up for all 3 trips but as you know sometimes they all don't go; at this time there indicating the morning (9:00am) and noon trips "are looking good". I will post who responds first. Thanks, Bhrian -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bhrian at cox.net Wed Feb 18 09:57:08 2009 From: bhrian at cox.net (Bhrian Resnik) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:57:08 -0800 Subject: [CINC] coverage for CX tomorrow 2/19 Message-ID: <000801c991f2$517f2510$f47d6f30$@net> Cubby Winkel was the first to respond and now has that assignment. Thank You Cubby! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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All the best, Clare -- Clare Fritzsche Volunteer Administration Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Channel Islands National Park Office schedule week of February 16: MON: Holiday TUE: 12:30-5:15pm, Santa Barbara (805) 966-7107 x366 WED: 9am-4pm, Santa Barbara (805) 966-7107 x366 THU: 9:30am-2:30pm, Oxnard (805) 382-6151 x105 FRI: 8am-4pm, Santa Barbara (805) 966-7107 x366 Cellular: (805) 729-0127 Santa Barbara FAX: (805) 568-1582 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Clare.Fritzsche at noaa.gov Wed Feb 18 13:06:19 2009 From: Clare.Fritzsche at noaa.gov (Clare Fritzsche) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:06:19 -0800 Subject: [CINC] oops, I meant FEBRUARY...DD trips need naturalist tomorrow and 2/20 & 2/27 Message-ID: <499C784B.4020800@noaa.gov> Greetings, Naturalists! We have a few open trips on the Double Dolphin in need of a naturalist, and so please let me know if you are able to go out an any of them: * tomorrow, Thursday, *February 19*, 9-11:30am and 12-2:30pm * Friday, *February **20*, 3:30-5:30pm * Friday, *February **27*, 3:30-5:30pm Please keep in mind that the DD allows you to take out a guest for free, as long as you make arrangements with them in advance. All the best, Clare -- Clare Fritzsche Volunteer Administration Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Channel Islands National Park Office schedule week of February 16: MON: Holiday TUE: 12:30-5:15pm, Santa Barbara (805) 966-7107 x366 WED: 9am-4pm, Santa Barbara (805) 966-7107 x366 THU: 9:30am-2:30pm, Oxnard (805) 382-6151 x105 FRI: 8am-4pm, Santa Barbara (805) 966-7107 x366 Cellular: (805) 729-0127 Santa Barbara FAX: (805) 568-1582 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It contains some terrific photos, some of the Santa Barbara Channel, quotes from John Calambokidis, migration data, and lots of statistics.? National Geographic is also airing "Kingdom of the Blue Whale" on March 8. Dean Benjamin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Shauna.Bingham at noaa.gov Thu Feb 19 09:30:48 2009 From: Shauna.Bingham at noaa.gov (Shauna Bingham) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:30:48 -0800 Subject: [CINC] National Geographic Article on Blue Whales In-Reply-To: <614395.47093.qm@web82301.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <614395.47093.qm@web82301.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <499D9748.8090305@noaa.gov> Thanks Dean for the update! Remember to mark you calendars for the May 12 & 13 From Shore to Sea Lecture Series. John Calambokidis will present his most recent research on blue and humpback whales and he is planning to play some of the National Geographic video footage at the lectures. Dean Benjamin wrote: > The March 2009 issue of National Geographic has a wonderful article on > Blue Whales. It contains some terrific photos, some of the Santa > Barbara Channel, quotes from John Calambokidis, migration data, and > lots of statistics. National Geographic is also airing "Kingdom of > the Blue Whale" on March 8. > > Dean Benjamin > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Channel_islands_naturalist_corps mailing list > Channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org > http://www.rain.org/mailman/listinfo/channel_islands_naturalist_corps > -- Shauna Bingham Volunteer and Outreach Coordinator NOAA Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary 3600 S. 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Bob Marley And The Whalers, If the whales were into Reggae or Whalen Jennings, if they were into country or maybe Pink Floyd, if they were in the mood............ ;) Staci -------- Original Message -------- Subject: "Inquiry-based Learning" questions generated at Tuesday night's meeting From: "Clare.Fritzsche" Date: Thu, February 19, 2009 12:22 pm To: Clare Fritzsche Greetings, Naturalists! Thank you for the wonderful work you did in the small group discussions at Tuesday night's CINC meeting, when Elaine Gibson spoke on Inquiry-based Learning. And thanks to those of you who took notes with the interpretive questions that were generated, which are attached, and also pasted below. __________________________________________________________________ Notes from Break-out Groups at CINC 2/17/2009 Meeting on Inquiry-Based Learning Engaging or Challenging Questions: How do suppose the Captain knows where the whales are? We all know why we?re here. Why are the whales here? (for out-of-towners) What kinds of things do you see in the ocean where you live? Why did you come on this trip? Which previous experiences like this have you had? How many different kinds of seabirds do you see (as we pull out of the harbor)? Is the ocean all one color as we move through the water? How could we measure the depth of the ocean right here? What?s special about the Channel? What do you think? (when they ask us a question?) Acquiring Knowledge: Why do you think that the largest animal might eat something as small as krill? Why do you think marine mammals might be in this area? Where else might they go? Divergent Questions: What if whales could breathe under water and didn?t have to come to the surface? What if the whales don?t appear here next year? What would whales listen to if they had Ipods? What might it feel like to be a dolphin? What are they doing? (breach, play) What do you think these animals do at night? What if a whale lived on land? How would it have to be different? Uncategorized Questions and Strategies: How do you think a scientist would study a whale? What can you tell by this group of whales? What type of patterns do you notice about this group of whales? How was the ocean, ocean life different during whaling? Would you rather be a dolphin or whale? Why? What do you think whales think of us? How do you think a whale is like or unlike a human? What is the difference between the way dolphins and fish swim? Can a whale pass on information? (institutional memory) What if you were the first human to see a whale, how would you learn about it? What would whalers use baleen for? How does their lifestyle differ from ours? Where are the whale?s nostrils and why would they be there? What do you think ?this? is for? When a whale doesn?t resurface when expected, ask ?Where did it go?? Use humor. Engage people in questions about the boat, where they?re from?put them at ease, get them talking. This leads to questions. -- Clare Fritzsche Volunteer Administration Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Channel Islands National Park Office schedule week of February 16: MON: Holiday TUE: 12:30-5:15pm, Santa Barbara (805) 966-7107 x366 WED: 9am-4pm, Santa Barbara (805) 966-7107 x366 THU: 9:30am-2:30pm, Oxnard (805) 382-6151 x105 FRI: 8am-4pm, Santa Barbara (805) 966-7107 x366 Cellular: (805) 729-0127 Santa Barbara FAX: (805) 568-1582 From kensword at cox.net Thu Feb 19 16:22:21 2009 From: kensword at cox.net (Kenneth A. Tatro) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:22:21 -0800 Subject: [CINC] Marine Map Message-ID: <0D354F81-59B9-4D05-B5E8-47F3E22D2552@cox.net> Hi folks, I though some folks here might be interested in this. Ken Tatro http://www.noozhawk.com/local_news/article/0210_marinemap/ From ciharbor1 at roadrunner.com Thu Feb 19 16:28:24 2009 From: ciharbor1 at roadrunner.com (Carol Shoemaker) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:28:24 -0800 Subject: [CINC] National Geographic Blue Whale Article Message-ID: <42CFF4B096A54171B5622B34044A8C86@OwnerPC> Still Blue Off the shores of Costa Rica, scientists study a stronghold of whales that once hovered near extinction. By Ken Brower Photograph by Flip Nicklin In Acapulco Harbor, amid the white yachts, R.V. Pacific Storm stood out: a working boat, black hulled, a West Coast trawler in a previous life, reborn now as a research vessel. There were bigger, more opulent boats in the harbor-fortunes are invested in the white yachts of Acapulco-but this 85-foot trawler, with its grim mien and high black bow, was the ship for me. Asked to choose, from all this fleet, the vessel to carry me on a month-long cruise in pursuit of blue whales, I would not have hesitated. As Flip Nicklin and I passed our gear up the trawler's ladder and stowed it in our cabin, I felt an almost savage contentment. Call me Ishmael, if you like, but whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I have spent too many consecutive months at the computer keyboard, in artificial light, like some sort of troglodyte, self-imprisoned, pecking out my living, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. I jumped at the assignment on Pacific Storm. As the voyage was to depart on the third of January, I made three New Year's resolutions: I would try to be an affable shipmate. I would strip all the blubber from my prose. I would refrain from making a single allusion to Herman Melville. Did I mention we were after a white whale? It's true. In the eastern North Pacific population of blue whales-the group that summers mostly off California and whose migration we were following south-there is a white blue whale, maybe an albino. An inflatable skiff from Pacific Storm had satellite tagged this whale off Santa Barbara four months before, but his tag, number 4172, had ceased transmitting a few weeks after implantation, and now his whereabouts were a mystery. The sun-synchronous, polar-orbiting TIROS N satellites could no longer track him, but he was one of the animals we hoped to see off Central America. When we had settled in on Pacific Storm, Nicklin, cross-legged on his bunk, set up his Nikon D200, with its Sea & Sea underwater dome. He squeezed a dab of silicone grease from a small tube onto his fingertip and ran it around the rim of the dome's blue O-ring. He opened the back of the camera and gave a similar treatment to the O-ring at the stern. Nicklin is a new kind of whaler. His job is not to render the oil, but to capture the essence of cetaceans, and the Nikon is his favorite harpoon. Pacific Storm put to sea. We sailed a leg due south to avoid the Tehuantepec winds along the eastward bend of Central America, then turned southwest toward the temperature anomaly that was our destination. The Costa Rica Dome is an upwelling of cold, nutrient-rich water generated by a meeting of winds and currents west of Central America. The location is not fixed; it meanders a bit, but the dome is reliably encountered somewhere between 300 and 500 miles offshore. The upwell?ing brings the thermocline-the boundary layer between deep, cold water and the warm water of the surface-up as high as 30 feet from the top. Upwelling with the cold, oxygen-poor water from the depths come nitrate, phos?phate, silicate, and other nutrients. This manna, or anti-manna-a gift not from heaven but from the deep-makes for an oasis in the sea. The upwelling nutrients of the dome fer?tilize the tiny plants of the phytoplankton, which feed the tiny animals of the zooplankton, which bring bigger animals, some of which are very big indeed. The blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus, is the largest creature ever to live. Linnaeus derived the genus name from the Latin balaena, "whale," and the Greek pteron, "fin" or "wing." His species name, musculus, is the diminutive of the Latin mus, "mouse"-apparently a Linnaean joke. The "little mouse whale" can grow to 200 tons and 100 feet long. A single little mouse whale weighs as much as the entire National Football League. Just as an elephant might pick up a little mouse in its trunk, so the elephant, in its turn, might be taken up by a blue whale and carried along on the colossal tongue. Had Jonah been injected intravenously, instead of swallowed, he could have swum the arterial vessels of this whale, boosted along every ten seconds or so by the slow, godlike pulse. It's true. In the eastern North Pacific population of blue whales-the group that summers mostly off California and whose migration we were following south-there is a white blue whale, maybe an albino. An inflatable skiff from Pacific Storm had satellite tagged this whale off Santa Barbara four months before, but his tag, number 4172, had ceased transmitting a few weeks after implantation, and now his whereabouts were a mystery. The sun-synchronous, polar-orbiting TIROS N satellites could no longer track him, but he was one of the animals we hoped to see off Central America. When we had settled in on Pacific Storm, Nicklin, cross-legged on his bunk, set up his Nikon D200, with its Sea & Sea underwater dome. He squeezed a dab of silicone grease from a small tube onto his fingertip and ran it around the rim of the dome's blue O-ring. He opened the back of the camera and gave a similar treatment to the O-ring at the stern. Nicklin is a new kind of whaler. His job is not to render the oil, but to capture the essence of cetaceans, and the Nikon is his favorite harpoon. Pacific Storm put to sea. We sailed a leg due south to avoid the Tehuantepec winds along the eastward bend of Central America, then turned southwest toward the temperature anomaly that was our destination. The Costa Rica Dome is an upwelling of cold, nutrient-rich water generated by a meeting of winds and currents west of Central America. The location is not fixed; it meanders a bit, but the dome is reliably encountered somewhere between 300 and 500 miles offshore. The upwell?ing brings the thermocline-the boundary layer between deep, cold water and the warm water of the surface-up as high as 30 feet from the top. Upwelling with the cold, oxygen-poor water from the depths come nitrate, phos?phate, silicate, and other nutrients. This manna, or anti-manna-a gift not from heaven but from the deep-makes for an oasis in the sea. The upwelling nutrients of the dome fer?tilize the tiny plants of the phytoplankton, which feed the tiny animals of the zooplankton, which bring bigger animals, some of which are very big indeed. The blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus, is the largest creature ever to live. Linnaeus derived the genus name from the Latin balaena, "whale," and the Greek pteron, "fin" or "wing." His species name, musculus, is the diminutive of the Latin mus, "mouse"-apparently a Linnaean joke. The "little mouse whale" can grow to 200 tons and 100 feet long. A single little mouse whale weighs as much as the entire National Football League. Just as an elephant might pick up a little mouse in its trunk, so the elephant, in its turn, might be taken up by a blue whale and carried along on the colossal tongue. Had Jonah been injected intravenously, instead of swallowed, he could have swum the arterial vessels of this whale, boosted along every ten seconds or so by the slow, godlike pulse. Balaenoptera musculus received international protection in the mid-1960s yet, for reasons not fully understood, has scarcely rebounded. If the greatest of creatures is to come back, Mate and Calambokidis believe, its demograph?ics and its movements need to be charted. The largest remaining population of the species is most vulnerable in tropical waters where it gives birth to dainty, twenty-five-foot-long, three-ton calves. As we followed the corridor of the blue whale migration southward, we took turns standing whale watch on the bridge, searching the horizon for blows. Whales 5801 and 23043 had already arrived at the dome, according to the satellite, and number 5670 was nearing it. The scientists were particularly interested in 23043, because they knew the sex, female, and because she had arrived at the dome early, as one might expect of a mother-to-be. The white blue whale, 4172, if he was migrating to the dome this year, was out there somewhere in the host moving south. The Pacific is a big ocean, however, and we saw not a single spout. Now and again, day and night, the ship shifted to neutral, and the researchers put gear overboard: a CTD sensor, an echo sounder, and a hydrophone. The CTD sensor recorded conductivity (a measure of salinity), temperature, and depth. The echo sounder searched for concentrations of krill, upon which the blue whale subsists almost entirely. "We're doing some control observation on the way down," Mate explained. "If there's no krill, will the whales pass through? If there are big concentrations of krill, will they hang around? We're looking for poop. We'll try to scoop it up, see if they're feeding. And checking their breath, which is fouler when they've eaten. I don't find blue whale breath offensive-certainly not in comparison to gray whale breath, which is really foul-but blue whale breath can be strong." The hydrophone was to detect blue whale voices. The simple song of the blue whale bull-the thumping, stentorian, basso profundo pulse of the A call, followed by the continuous tone of the B call-is the mightiest song in the sea, theoretically capable of propagating halfway across an ocean basin. But big baleen whales often run silent. Except for a few dubious snatches of song, we heard nothing at all. When we reached the Costa Rica Dome, three days out of Acapulco, the ocean looked no different, just blue horizon and marching swells. It took a sounding by the CTD sensor to detect the thermocline lying just 60 feet under the surface. We had arrived. "Blow at eleven o'clock!" Calambokidis called down the next morning from the crosstrees, our crow's nest, over his walkie-talkie. We saw two more blows side-by-side in quick succession-our first blue whales-and we launched the tagging boats, beginning the repetitive ritual that would occupy us for the next three weeks. The boats were Coast Guard surplus, a pair of diesel-powered RHIBs, or rigid hull inflatable boats. Sticking with meteorological nomen?clature, we called the big one Hurricane and the small one Squall. I generally went out on Hurricane. Its commander was Bruce Mate. The second mate, and also the second Mate, was Mary Lou, the expedition videographer and the professor's wife of 40 years. I was the biopsy guy. My first job was to cock my crossbow, take a biopsy bolt from the cooler that served as ammu?nition box, nock the bolt, and then remove the sheath of aluminum foil protecting the tip from contamination by extraneous DNA. The bolt, when shot into the whale, would excise a plug of skin and blubber. About three inches back from its tip, the bolt was blocked by an oblong ball of yellow rubber that prevented the projectile from going in too deep and also served to bounce it off the whale. Mounted on the rubber bow of Hurricane was a metal bowsprit, the "pulpit," custom-made for this work. Each time we closed on whales, I would follow Professor Mate up onto the narrow grate of the pulpit deck. >From its holster, which was a transparent plastic tube lashed to the pulpit rail, Mate withdrew the satellite-tag "applicator," a long-barreled, red-metal blunderbuss with a wooden rifle stock. This device, originally a Norwegian invention for shooting line between ships, is powered by compressed air from a scuba tank. The pop is adjustable. For blue whales, Mate sets the dial at 85 pounds per square inch of pressure. For sperm whales, which have very tough skin, he sets the pressure at 120 pounds. Both Mate and I wore waist harnesses, which we clipped into slings on the pulpit rail, freeing up our hands for the shooting. The first we saw of a whale was almost always its blow. When the sun was behind us, we sometimes saw a prismatic scatter of color in the explosive expansion of spray and vapor-a few milliseconds of rainbow-before the color shimmered out and the spout faded to white. Whenever a blue whale surfaced to blow nearby, I was struck by the blowhole-a pair of nostrils countersunk atop the tapering mound of the splash guard, built up almost into a kind of nose on the back of the head. Other baleen whales have splash guards too, but not like this. This nose was almost Roman. It seemed disproportionately large, even for the biggest of whales. Its size explained that loud, concussive exhalation-less a breath than a detonation-and its size explained the 30-foot spout. It was a mighty blow, followed quickly by a mighty inhalation. The second thing we saw of the whale was its back. The blue whale is "a light bluish gray overall, mottled with gray or grayish white," as one field guide describes it, and the back is often, indeed, this advertised color, but just as often, depending on the light, the back shows as silvery gray or pale tan. Whichever the color, the back always has a glassy shine. When you are close, you see the water sluicing off the vast back, first in rivulets and sheets, and then in a film that flows in lovely, pulsed patterns downhill to the sea. If blue whales above water are only putatively blue, then below the surface they go indisputably turquoise. Balaenoptera musculus is a pale whale, and when seen through the blue filter of the ocean, its pallor goes turquoise or aquamarine. This view of the whale, downward through 20 to 50 feet of water, is for me the most haunting and evocative. If the most beautiful hue of the blue whale is turquoise, then the most beautiful form, the finest sculpture, is in the flukes. In the first week of our tagging efforts, the tail always seemed to be waving goodbye. "Ta-ta," it signaled. "Nice try. Better luck next time." When a whale showed its flukes-when the two palmate blades poised high in the air-we would break off the chase, because elevated flukes meant a deep dive. But sometimes we saw the flukes close under the surface. They were huge, wider than the boat, and in motion they were hypnotically lovely. "In no living thing are the lines of beauty more exquisitely defined than in the crescentic borders of these flukes," Melville writes in Moby Dick. The last thing we saw of the whale was its "flukeprint." When a whale or dolphin swims at shallow depths, turbulence from its flukes rises to form a circular slick on the surface: the footprint or flukeprint. The flukeprints of blue whales are large and surprisingly persistent. The smooth patch lingers long after the whale is gone. "It's a measure of how much energy is in the stroke," Mate told me one afternoon when he caught me staring at one of these slicks. The circle of the flukeprint is perfectly smooth, except for a few faint curves that mark the continued upwelling of energy. Eventually the chop of the ocean begins to erode the slick from the outside inward, but only slowly. The emphatic flukeprint was another of those discouraging signs that caused us to call off a chase. "Holy smokes!" Mate said one afternoon, as we motored into the middle of a huge one. Ladd Irvine, a research assistant who served as helmsman, laughed in admiration: "We're not going to see him again for a while." Out on the pulpit, the professor spread his feet for balance, rested the butt of his applicator on the grating of the pulpit deck, and gripped the barrel just below the muzzle-loaded, chiseled tip of his satellite tag. His quick-dry khaki pants luffed and billowed in the sea wind, and now and again the breeze brought a powerful smell of staleness and mold, mixed sometimes with an alarming flatulence. Whew, Bruce! I thought on more than one occasion. Then one day, as the wind rippled in his khakis and we closed in on the spout ahead, the professor emitted a blast so powerful, inhuman, and malodorous that I realized he had to be completely innocent. What I had been smelling, all along, was not our leader. I had been smelling the bad breath of blue whales. For almost a week at the dome, every whale slipped away from us. On our sixth day our luck changed. We saw three spouts to the southeast that morning and launched Hurricane. The first two whales toyed with us, as usual, allowing us close, then pulling away. The third allowed us to get in perfect position. We paced the great turquoise shape, keeping abreast of the flukes as the whale coursed along underwater to starboard. As the animal surfaced to blow, it angled up from turquoise abstraction into photo-realism. Irvine gunned the engine. Up in the pulpit I clicked off my crossbow's safety. Mate tucked the rifle stock of the tag applicator into his shoulder, leaned outward over the pulpit rail, and aimed the long, red barrel almost straight downward at the rising whale, now just ten feet underwater. The whale blew, and the glistening wall of its flank erupted in a steep curve above the sea. My instructions as biopsy guy were to wait for the bang of the tag applicator before firing my crossbow. The smooth flank of the whale filled my whole field of view; there was no way I could miss. At the bang of the applicator, I pulled my trigger. The bolt left the crossbow, and a black hole, small but inky, appeared where I had been aiming. It took a millisecond for me to understand that I was responsible for it, and I felt a pang of regret and guilt. I did that? I thought, like a boy whose pop fly has gone through a stained-glass window. Then my sense of proportion returned. In relation to the vastness of this whale, my hole was just a mosquito bite. This was not a crime; it was a blow for science. On the pulpit, Mate and I unclipped our harnesses and shook hands. The blue whale writes a kind of longhand on the surface of the sea. There is the ovoid slick that forms above the head the moment before emergence, the long, narrow slick left by the arching back, and the circular slick of the flukeprint. There are the sputtering white fountains that a blue whale raises by blowing early, still gliding under the surface-a sequence of premature spouts. There are bubble blasts. I saw my first of these just ahead of the bowsprit, about 12 feet deep, as the blowhole of a whale erupted a big bolus of bubbles. It expanded toward the surface, vitreous and glittery, like a crystal chandelier falling upward. "Bubble blast," observed Mate. This particular bubble blast seemed to be commentary directed at our persistent and irritating little boat-some kind of whale expletive, probably. It rose above the whale's head like a speech balloon in a Gary Larson cartoon. Its message was something like "@*#&%?!?!" Of all the marks of blue whale cursive, the most colorful was the defecation trail. The first defecation we saw was in a yearling, a little 50-footer. This whale blew 40 yards away, and behind it the ocean brightened in a long, red-orange contrail. "We have a defecation," Irvine announced. This contrail, a brick red streak of processed krill, more watery than particulate, was our first direct evidence that blue whales were feeding in winter at the Costa Rica Dome. As this was one of the hypotheses this expedition had been launched to test, Mate scrambled to find a Ziploc bag to collect a sample. The evidence for feeding that we observed firsthand in the defecation trails was corroborated in the ship's laboratory. On her computer screen, Robyn Matteson, Mate's graduate student, monitored the echo sounder and the concentrations of krill it detected at the dome. Krill distribution was patchier than anyone had imagined, but dense schools of the small crustaceans were plainly here. Across the lab table, at their own computers, Calambokidis and Erin Oleson of Scripps Institution of Oceanography studied the dive profiles recorded by acoustic tags they had succeeded in applying to several whales. The acoustic tags, deployed by pole and attached by suction cups, stay on the whale for hours, not months, like the more invasive satellite tags. Here at the dome, the depth recorders on the tags showed dives to 800 feet and deeper. The vertical line marking each dive, on reaching its greatest depth, began to zigzag in the sawtooth pattern characteristic of blue whales when lunge feeding on krill. The evidence for calving at the Costa Rica Dome proved more elusive, but after many fruitless days, it arrived finally, to starboard, by way of a mother and her calf. The pair were moving slowly, spending a lot of time at the surface. The mother surprised us by allowing her calf to turn toward Pacific Storm. A mother whale often interposes herself between her calf and potential danger, but this mother was an easygoing, Montessori sort of parent, and she let her baby explore. John Calambokidis drove Squall out to snap surface pictures for photo identification. Nicklin and cameraman Ernie Kovacs grabbed their gear and went along. On nearing the whales, they pulled on their fins and slipped overboard. At first they saw nothing through their dive masks but blue. Then Kovacs, looking for the youngster, was startled to see it pass, maybe five feet below his fins. This whale was just a baby, yet its blue back seemed to pass under him endlessly. The calf, gliding by Nicklin, rolled slightly to bring an eye to bear on him. It peered into the glass orb of the camera housing, and Nicklin's shutter winked back. After 21 days at the Costa Rica Dome, we could stay no longer and turned north for Acapulco. On the voyage home, we took stock. There had been disappointments: We wished we had satellite tagged more whales, had seen more calves, had experienced more underwater encounters with blue whales. We were sorry not to have glimpsed whale 4172, the white bull. But for the most part we were satisfied. In three weeks spent crisscrossing the dome, we had succeeded in finding three whales satellite tagged in California and tracked down here. Each time we homed in on the transmissions of one of these telemetric whales, we had found it in the company of "clean" whales. Satellite tagging had proved itself an efficient method for locating concentrations of the untagged. We had satellite tagged three new blue whales (but one tag failed to transmit), affixed acoustic tags to six more, and photo identified about 70. Thirteen of those 70 were from California. The voyage proved that the dome is visited by large numbers of blue whales. We saw many threesomes, the romantic triangles of the blue whale, and we witnessed much boisterous courtship behavior, all suggesting that the dome is a mating ground. We demonstrated beyond a doubt that blue whales do feed here in the winter. With sonobuoys and acoustic tags, we eavesdropped on A and B calls of the blue whale song and on the D calls whales make between bouts of feeding, and thus began notation of the winter music in this patch of ocean. The news from the dome is good. The grandest creature in all creation has been hunted by our kind, the thinking ape, to near extinction. Its numbers still are low, but it was hard not to feel optimistic. In my bunk with Nicklin's laptop, lingering over his dig?ital portraits of the curious calf, I thought I could read, in its strange visage, a gargantuan impishness. I found this cheering. The young do give us hope. On the voyage home, we found time for reflection, and I understood why the blue whale's flukeprint so mesmerized me each time I saw it at the dome. That big, circular slick is the sig?nature of the species, the John Hancock of flukeprints, outsize and insistent. It jumps out boldly from the parchment. Its uncanny persistence on the sea's surface, defying the choppiness, is a good omen. Appearing at the dome, this winter haven, it suggests that the blue whale might after all defy the chop of history. "Still here!" the flukeprint says. Page [ 4 ] of 9 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Tatro) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:39:58 -0800 Subject: [CINC] Humpback Sightings In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <992E441D-A44C-4F57-B059-2AB932E95EBB@cox.net> Heh, heh, What kind of vehicle were they driving? Yep it must have been a sight to see. Anybody see a news article on this?? Just funnin' ya Trent, ... yep, it is most cool to see them so close to shore. Ken Tatro On Feb 19, 2009, at 5:12 PM, Trent Barnhart wrote: > Just got a report this morning from a very reliable source that they > spotted 2-3 humpback whales some 50 yards off the coast of Gaviota. > He saw them driving South on the 101 around 7:00 AM, what a sight it > must have been to see from the coast. > > Happy Sightings! > > Trent Barnhart > > See how Windows connects the people, information, and fun that are > part of your life. See > Now_______________________________________________ > Channel_islands_naturalist_corps mailing list > Channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org > http://www.rain.org/mailman/listinfo/channel_islands_naturalist_corps -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From oaars at sbcglobal.net Fri Feb 20 09:02:28 2009 From: oaars at sbcglobal.net (Warren Glaser) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:02:28 -0800 (PST) Subject: [CINC] Double Dolphin Sunday, February 22... Message-ID: <58190.66406.qm@web83105.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Fellow naturalists... If anyone is available to take my 9;00am and 12:30pm spots on the DD on Sunday I would appreciate it so much. Thanks. Warren "We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." anon Are you disabled or do you have a friend or loved one who is? Would you be interested in support from or sharing with those who are? Go to www.buildingbridgesfc.org and if you care to join us or find out more about us, contact me, Warren Glaser, at 642-2912 or oaars at sbcglobal.net. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 21789 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 3334 bytes Desc: not available URL: From rustgarden at msn.com Fri Feb 20 14:21:53 2009 From: rustgarden at msn.com (Morgan Coffey) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:21:53 -0800 Subject: [CINC] observations at Coal Oil Point Message-ID: I'm forwarding this from Gray Whales Count, our local gray whale census project. Do follow the link to the Journey North Website--it's a swell educational site: Hello, all, The migration is off to a better start than the weather at Coal Oil Point. We have had shortened and canceled days because of rain and wind. Even so, as of today, February 19, 2009, we have Counted 36 northbound gray whales. In 2008, we saw our first northbound whale on Valentine's Day. Usually at this time, we have seen more southbound whales than northbound whales, and most of the whales are juveniles wondering "are we there yet?" It is a long swim for not much reason as far as they are concerned. This year is different: far more northbound whales, even with three southbounders today. And, we are seeing groups engaged in mature-whale activity. The migration is on and early. To get the broader view, please follow the link to Jane Duden's report for Journey North. She does excellent work, bringing this diverse effort together. Journey North Gray Whale Report I want to extend my sincere thanks to our partners, the Coastal Fund, and significant others for collaboration, support, counsel, and encouragement. Most of all, we could not do this without the Counters. There are 88 of us. Quite a team. Please check in to our website graywhalescount.org often. We update it every day so you can keep up with the gray whales as they journey north. _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live?: E-mail. Chat. Share. Get more ways to connect. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_allup_explore_022009 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tara_brown_sb at yahoo.com Fri Feb 20 16:15:43 2009 From: tara_brown_sb at yahoo.com (TARA BROWN) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:15:43 -0800 (PST) Subject: [CINC] 2/20/09 Condor Express In-Reply-To: <20090220052046.HHQG12540.fed1rmmtao106.cox.net@fed1rmimpo02.cox.net> Message-ID: <190864.24508.qm@web38306.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Great day on the ocean! ? 2 + 4?Humpbacks 1 Gray --- right outside the harbor at the first bouy!? (and near Campus Point earlier) 1,000 common dolphins ? 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A very diverse group ethnically and just plain great kids to be among. Luckily hey did not have their total of 49, so Lani got to join me. As we motored out toward the west end of Santa Cruz heading for the area the Condor was we encountered virtually nothing other than a few stray juvenile sea lions. The closer we approached the more we realized we were in for a treat as we witnessed a total breach that sent spray higher than the antennas on Condor. We encountered a total of five flying humps (if you are going to ask what they were flying Staci, it was TWA, Trans Whale Airlines). They appeared from their aerobatics to be members of Lafayette Escadrille and even treated us to a number of double breaches. It was a show to behold. The same treat might be yours tomorrow if you volunteered to take my place tomorrow on the DD... Warren "We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." anon Are you disabled or do you have a friend or loved one who is? Would you be interested in support from or sharing with those who are? Go to www.buildingbridgesfc.org and if you care to join us or find out more about us, contact me, Warren Glaser, at 642-2912 or oaars at sbcglobal.net. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 21789 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 3334 bytes Desc: not available URL: From bweinerth at hotmail.com Sat Feb 21 14:30:15 2009 From: bweinerth at hotmail.com (bill weinerth) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:30:15 +0000 Subject: [CINC] Frenchy's Cove Friday Feb 20th Message-ID: The Vanguard took two sixth grade classes from Oxnard's Blackstock Middle School - 68 students, teachers and parents. In addition were four open Party folks and three Naturalists -Kathy Van Slyke, Tina Reed and myself. Ocean was calm with about a two foot swell at Anacapa north side. Finds: two pelican carcasses one of which was oil covered; a sea lion that was mostly eaten by maggots; wavy top shells; drift wood and enough trash to fill most of a black garbage bag (Kathy collected this). Included was a bunch of balloons which provided a good teachable moment for IPCO's Andrea. The climb to the south side of Anacapa revealed a significant south swell and the tide pools. The students had limpet surveys and critter counts to do and did them with concentration and seriousness. Captain Jason was poetry in motion working the skiff, six people per skiff load, challenged with the surf and a bit of an east moving current. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Message-ID: <925644C4-BC54-4912-96C1-19D2C10CE85E@scottcuzzo.com> Tuesday Feb. 24, 9-11:30 and 12-2:30 on the Double Dolphin. Due to work, I can't go this time, though I really want to with all the exciting humpback activity that direction! Please let me know if you can take these trips. Regards, Scott Cuzzo From scott at scottcuzzo.com Sat Feb 21 18:11:02 2009 From: scott at scottcuzzo.com (Scott Cuzzo) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:11:02 -0800 Subject: [CINC] Vanguard Today. Message-ID: <565933BE-195C-4A53-AE49-4F2A16279FE7@scottcuzzo.com> Two northbound grays Two thousand common dolphin Aboard the Vanguard today for two half day trips we encountered the same northbound pair of gray whales on both outings. They were mid channel, inside the line of oil rigs. They were quite comfortable with us and both trips got lots of nice views. Both appeared to be adults. At one point the whales went under us and came up very close to the boat, giving us a nice surprise. Both trips got great views of lots of common dolphins. The ocean was very, very calm, and a bit chilly by SoCal standards. I did see one spout on the morning trip which I'm pretty sure was a humpback, but we never found it after that. I'm jonesing for some humpies. Kind regards, Scott Cuzzo From ciharbor1 at roadrunner.com Sun Feb 22 10:09:07 2009 From: ciharbor1 at roadrunner.com (Carol Shoemaker) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:09:07 -0800 Subject: [CINC] Ranger 85 2/21 Message-ID: <4F4F24F36FC34F828D5BF5EA2C772DA4@OwnerPC> Gray whales both morning and afternoon trips mega pods of dolphins on both trips Rissos on the afternoon trip -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eradding at sbcglobal.net Sun Feb 22 10:12:38 2009 From: eradding at sbcglobal.net (EUGENE RADDING) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:12:38 -0800 (PST) Subject: [CINC] island adventure/2-21-09 Message-ID: <874193.4069.qm@web82906.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Captains Lee & Jimmy, along with Elli & Jean took 129 passengers, myself and naturalist Scott Robertson on the pm trip Sat. 2/21/09 to visit with about 1800 Common Dolphins about a half an hour out of the VTA Harbor.?About 45 minutes later we came upon the same two grays that the Vanguard?had seen. They were traveling slow and did several terrific flukes during the time we stayed with them. On the way back to port we encountered about 800 Common Dolphins that may have been some of the same ones we had seen going out. Lots of local based passengers that had never been out on the water or seen whales together with mid westerners avoiding snow, ice and cold weather back home. Another wonderful day in you know where! 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Other sightings, one lone gray in the distance heading South East and others with distinctive flukes heading North West. On the trip home a bird appeared standing on the water, which was actually on a bed of healthy kelp. Lots of local adults, seven children, including visitors from Canada and Michigan. When asked why they were not in church on Sunday, a child said she was enjoying God's creation. Sally Narkevic -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From garydel at aol.com Mon Feb 23 19:32:16 2009 From: garydel at aol.com (garydel at aol.com) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:32:16 -0500 Subject: [CINC] Ranger 85 2/23 Message-ID: <8CB6447A02A80DA-FA4-29BC@webmail-mf21.sysops.aol.com> Just the facts... Common Dolphins... One 500 pod and then another pod of maybe 1000 getting together about 15 minutes later, about 1130. Then, perhaps the same dolphins on the return from East Anacapa maybe 1000 animals in a very tight feeding formation, about 1400... lots of food in the water according to Captain Frank on the Ranger 85. Dolphins came to people-watch the 45 Hueneme High School students aboard this 1100-1500 trip. A possible Gray, northbound, spotted by another ship at about 1430. We did not see this whale, even though Capt. Frank tried valiantly. Apparently this whale was in stealth mode, snorkeling modestly and protecting his position. Calm seas, about 5 drops of rain, lots of birds and sea lions. Always a pleasure to help introduce students to the marine environment! Gary Delanoeye -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kat at recycledgoods.com Mon Feb 23 20:01:14 2009 From: kat at recycledgoods.com (Kathryn Wasden) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:01:14 -0800 Subject: [CINC] IPCO Frenchy's Cove/Tide Pools Message-ID: Facts: Going out: Some sprinkles Medium size pod 500 or so Common Dolphin intermixed with sea lions, pelicans, cormorants Lots of sick 5th graders with too much galley food from Ventura, but even so, lots of happy excited students Coming back to mainland: Two humpbacks Common dolphin spread out for miles not in close formation No sick kids Very calm seas Two fifth grade classes from Ventura traveled out to Frenchy?s Cove to do some scientific monitoring. Some students have never been on the ocean before and it is always exciting to share this ?first? with them. I was very happy to know that they finished off their trip with some whales, overall a great group of enthusiastic students. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.552 / Virus Database: 270.11.2/1965 - Release Date: 2/21/2009 3:36 PM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From scott at scottcuzzo.com Mon Feb 23 20:06:16 2009 From: scott at scottcuzzo.com (Scott Cuzzo) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:06:16 -0800 Subject: [CINC] Vanguard today... Message-ID: <369122C3-70A1-4616-B20A-DF9E8E23308E@scottcuzzo.com> One shy gray for sure Two or three other whales that we did not ID Two pretty big groups of common dolphin >>>>> On one afternoon trip aboard the Vanguard, we encountered one juvenile northbound gray, fairly close to the coast. We saw a couple spouts, one fluke, and then one close approach near the boat, which seemed to startle the whale, as it made a sudden splash and then was gone. Later we saw 2, maybe three spouts in the distance, which are the whales that Gary D. just mentioned. But after seeing lovely backlit spouts in the distance, the whales eluded us. They were near one of those big pods of commons, which some of the IPCO staff surmised might annoy the grays. Any one with thoughts or experience on this?? A smallish boatload of people did enjoy the great afternoon on the water. Carole Murrell was welcome company! Scott Cuzzo From dbellman at dock.net Mon Feb 23 20:34:40 2009 From: dbellman at dock.net (Dick Bellman) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:34:40 -0800 Subject: [CINC] Condox Express 2/23 Message-ID: <398A5E4E07CF4B82AE86944FD7717829@Dick> There was a small, but enthusiastic group of passengers aboard the 12:00 trip out of Santa Barbara. On an absolutely perfect day with extremely calm seas, and seemingly unlimited visibility we saw: * One pod of approximately 500 common dolphins * Two Humpback whales The two Humpbacks apparently enjoyed the company of the boat as they were with us for approximately one hour. The passengers were treated to great views as the two whales swam back and forth and under the boat, often surfacing extremely close to the boat. Needless to say the passengers, all of whom were from out of California were ecstatic. As always a tremendous job was performed by Captain Matt along with crew Dave and Jacques. It was a pleasure to work with Carolyn McCleskey who was on photo-ID. Dick Bellman -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 667 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 128 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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In June we will hear Dr. James Kennett, professor emeritus from the UCSB Earth Science Department, speak about a hypothesis to explain at least three major events that have long puzzled the scientific community: 1) the massive, abrupt extinction over North America of many large mammal (e.g. mammoths, camels, sloths, saber-tooth cats) and bird taxa; 2) the abrupt disappearance of the Clovis culture, the first widely distributed peoples of North America; and 3) the triggering of abrupt cooling over broad areas of Earth and associated major change in ocean circulation. Here is the info for the rest of the series through June: From Shore to Sea Lecture Series 2009 * Mar. 10 & 11* New Approaches to Understanding Kelp Forest Ecosystem Health Anne Salomon, Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara *Apr. 14 & 15 *Prisoners Wetland Restoration Project Paula Power, Channel Islands National Park *May 12 & 13 *SPLASH - Update on Blue and Humpback Whale Pacific NE Populations John Calambokidis, Cascadia Research Collective *June 9 & 10** *Investigating the Mass Extinction 12,000 Years Ago* * James Kennett, Earth Science Dept.,* *University of California Santa Barbara Tina -- Tina Johnson Ventura County Field Office Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary 3600 S. Harbor Blvd., #111 Oxnard, CA 93035 (805) 382-6149 x 100 (805) 382-9791 Fax Tina.Johnson at noaa.gov http://channelislands.noaa.gov -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Shauna.Bingham at noaa.gov Tue Feb 24 17:17:01 2009 From: Shauna.Bingham at noaa.gov (Shauna.Bingham at noaa.gov) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:17:01 -0800 Subject: [CINC] 1-877-SOS-WHALE (1-877-767-9425) Message-ID: NOAA Fisheries Southwest Region is pleased to announce that we have secured a easily identifiable toll-free number for reporting large whale entanglements to the California large whale disentanglement network: 1-877-SOS-WHALE (1-877-767-9425) This number is part of broader effort by the network to improve response to large whale entanglements. The region and the network will be developing and distributing various outreach materials to inform ocean users of this number and provide guidance on what information to gather if an entangled whale is spotted. The number is currently active, so please distribute to relevant parts of your organizations. 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"Proud Eagle" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: withwind2 at charter.net To: channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:48:53 -0800 Subject: [CINC] replace me this Sunday, March 1, on Island Packer Whale Watch? Conflict of obligations. Will some one replace me this Sunday, March 1, on Island Packer Whale Watch? Both trips, (9:30 and 1:30) Larry Harris Mahalo and remember "Chance favors the prepared mind" therefore...MAKE it a great day! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Access your email online and on the go with Windows Live Hotmail. Sign up today. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Rough seas 4 or so miles from harbor for many hours then some hope for the back of the boat as we neared shore and the harbor again. It was hard to go around and chat, as many a passenger was just hanging on to their composure. Bill Wakelee was super cute with the only young passenger on board (besides a baby) going through the whole whale kit with the young man inside the cabin. I am not so great inside when the conditions are like today?s (so I was really impressed). I fended off questions from the upfront gang until it was too rough to stay open and then hung around the doors and back. The grays were more mid channel and cheers to Capt. Alex for finding them and handling a great narrative and seas all at once. The 65 or so passengers will have some stories to write home about! No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. 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The ones I spoke to were quite interested in whales and many knew some basics about what they were seeing. Well-prepped by their teachers. Also aboard: 22 happy adults from Norway, Scotland, England, Germany and Indiana, along with locals. Capt. Mat's narration was attentioin-getting, as always. Capt. Dave and Amanda assisted. HAL ALTMAN -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From RDreher at roadrunner.com Thu Feb 26 19:23:30 2009 From: RDreher at roadrunner.com (Ron Dreher) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:23:30 -0800 Subject: [CINC] Amusing story Message-ID: <001601c9988a$c4e376c0$0a00a8c0@DJX1D341> Trickster Octopus Tugs Valve, Floods Santa Monica Aquarium Thursday, February 26, 2009 * Print * ShareThis AP Feb. 26: This small two-spotted octopus is suspected of opening a water valve and flooding her aquarium. SANTA MONICA, Calif. - An eight-armed trickster is accused of flooding the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium's California offices Thursday morning with saltwater. Aquarium staff blames the aquarium's small resident two-spotted octopus known for her curiosity for the soaking. "It found something loose and just pulled on it," Tara Treiber, the aquarium's education manager, told the Los Angeles Times. "They are very smart creatures." Staff said they believe the octopus tugged open a water valve allowing in hundreds of gallons of water to overflow its tank. The newspaper reported that a worker found about 3 inches of water outside the tank. Fortunately for its neighbors, the excess water did not harm any sea life. But the water might have damaged the aquarium's new, ecologically-designed floors. "They are solitary but curious creatures," Treiber told the newspaper. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In?spite of the weather?Capt Jimmy was nevertheless able to locate three northbound?gray whales who performed the usual behavior with several clearly seen flukes. Capt Lee identified the sea lion on the buoy as a stellar sea lion not usually seen around here. Kevin Thompson and I did the docent thing. A satisfying day except for the upset passengers who nevertheless enjoyed the whales. Have a great weekend. ?EUGENE RADDING -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From CalMeuser at aol.com Fri Feb 27 17:45:55 2009 From: CalMeuser at aol.com (CalMeuser at aol.com) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:45:55 EST Subject: [CINC] Coaral Sea, Feb.27 Message-ID: Calm Seas, 32 passengers, a few common dolphin, a female elephant seal but no whales. Peg & Cal Meuser. **************Get a jump start on your taxes. Find a tax professional in your neighborhood today. (http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=Tax+Return+Preparation+%26+Filing&ncid=emlcntusyelp00000004) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mardanne at silcom.com Sat Feb 28 16:03:30 2009 From: mardanne at silcom.com (Marilyn Dannehower) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:03:30 -0800 Subject: [CINC] DD 2/27/09 Message-ID: Wow, we went all three trips! What a great day.... 9:30 About a dozen DDs played with the sailing boat, much to the delight of 8 passengers. 12:00 We received a call right out of the harbor from a sailboat that there were two "Humpback whales" just west of the harbor. The Condor X was with them, and they turned out to be a cow/calf gray whale pair. We mostly saw the calf, very small. It breached a number of times and showed lots of tiny tail flukes. Mom showed up as the Condor left and then junior behaved itself and they became very shy. 3:00- Interesting trip. 48 UCSB students involved with a Wellness program came out for whales. We didn't find any, but they put me through the paces with about a million questions. Very inquisitive and fun group!! I highly recommend getting out with this group, I think they are scheduled with the Double Dolphin every second Friday afternoon.. Marilyn Dannehower -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From staci at savzsea.com Sat Feb 28 16:58:13 2009 From: staci at savzsea.com (staci at savzsea.com) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:58:13 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Anacapa 2/19/09 Message-ID: <20090228175813.1f69f13e02bba7ff49a08cffd4b84343.9e845907e4.wbe@email.secureserver.net> On February 19th fellow Naturalist Susie Williams, 65 juvenile terrestrial mammals, several parental units, two fabulous teachers and I boarded the Vanguard to Frenchy's Cove, Anacapa Island. This is our story.......... http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30164008&l=e20c4&id=1205432411 Staci Kaye-Carr Channel Islands Naturalist Corps