From greywhalejewelry at hotmail.com Thu Jul 1 07:19:21 2010 From: greywhalejewelry at hotmail.com (Keith Grey Hale) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 07:19:21 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Prehistoric Whale Ate Other Whales For Breakfast NPR In-Reply-To: <9B15F8A7E2CE477988B161181888C471@OwnerPC> References: <9B15F8A7E2CE477988B161181888C471@OwnerPC> Message-ID: Here's is one too.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10461066.stm From: ciharbor1 at roadrunner.com To: channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:59:57 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Prehistoric Whale Ate Other Whales For Breakfast NPR http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128213707&ft=1&f=1001 _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the too busy. 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URL: From mr.zalophus at gmail.com Thu Jul 1 10:35:28 2010 From: mr.zalophus at gmail.com (Mr Zalophus) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 10:35:28 -0700 Subject: [CINC] CX Wed June 30 - the Glutton Message-ID: As I'm sure John Kuizenga will report later, with his usual precision, the Condor Express spent approximately an hour observing a single lunge-feeding Humpback Whale on the 100-fathom curve off the northwest side of Santa Rosa Island yesterday. The whale lunged repeatedly, stopping only for an occasional breath (and trumpet call). I encourage naturalists to take a look at the images of this dining extravaganza if you have any doubts about how Humpbacks feed on krill. The images from the day are now posted to the boat photo site. Remember to click the "Map This" button to see exactly where all the action was. http://www.condorexpressphotos.com/Other/2010-06-30-SB-Channel/12764373_zAJ36#919832513_QuDgV bon apetite! 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Note that August 10 is seniors and disabled citizens day, and August 6 is youth day. If you are out and about, be sure to stop by our booth on *July 17*, Saturday, at the *Ventura County In-Water Boat Show & Green Expo* in Channel Islands Harbor http://www.ci-boatshow.com/. We will be sharing the usual information about our wonderful sanctuary and park, as well as information on NOAA's Marine Debris Program http://marinedebris.noaa.gov/. (Yes, all of the shifts are filled for this event, so thank you!) Best, Tina -- Tina Johnson Ventura County Field Office Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary 3550 S. Harbor Blvd. 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 mr.zalophus at gmail.com Sat Jul 3 14:56:15 2010 From: mr.zalophus at gmail.com (Mr Zalophus) Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 14:56:15 -0700 Subject: [CINC] CX - Friday, July 2 - Mugged by a juv Blue Whale Message-ID: As I'm sure John and/or Vivi will post in a more eloquent and detailed manner later, we got mugged by a juv Blue Whale near Platform Hondo. http://www.condorexpressphotos.com/Other/2010-07-02-SB-Coast/ best fishes Bob Perry Condor Express -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jkuizenga at linkline.com Sat Jul 3 15:19:22 2010 From: jkuizenga at linkline.com (John Kuizenga) Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:19:22 -0700 Subject: [CINC] CX, WW Trip of 7/2 Message-ID: Fellow Naturalist and Dolphin Pod Colleague, Vivi Teston wrote the attached naturalist report on yesterdays (7/2) amazing sighting of Blue Whales aboard the CX! Great Report Vivi! Also, check-out Bob Perry?s spectacular photography of this encounter (thanks to Dennis), posted at: www.CondorExpressPhotos.com John -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: Vivi Teston Subject: The Blue Whale Tale July 2nd 2010 Written for rain list volunteer of Channel Islands Marine Corps Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 21:40:56 -0700 Size: 4498 URL: From scott at scottcuzzo.com Sat Jul 3 16:28:46 2010 From: scott at scottcuzzo.com (Scott Cuzzo) Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2010 18:28:46 -0500 Subject: [CINC] Take my Condor spot tomorrow!!! Message-ID: <20100703232846.418d6103@corp.kvcinc.com> If possible, I'd love if someone could take my 10-2:30 spot on The Condor tomorrrow. I was out there today at it was spectacular!!! Come on...go for it. Let me know. Email me! Scott Cuzzo -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ppetrich39 at hotmail.com Sat Jul 3 20:26:30 2010 From: ppetrich39 at hotmail.com (Paul Jr. Petrich) Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 20:26:30 -0700 Subject: [CINC] CX, WW Trip of 7/2 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: WOW! Great stuff! A new generation with a different outlook on life in our local feeding grounds? Paul Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 15:19:22 -0700 From: jkuizenga at linkline.com To: channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org CC: vivi at fleurdev.com; Mr.Zalophus at gmail.com Subject: [CINC] CX, WW Trip of 7/2 CX, WW Trip of 7/2 Fellow Naturalist and Dolphin Pod Colleague, Vivi Teston wrote the attached naturalist report on yesterdays (7/2) amazing sighting of Blue Whales aboard the CX! Great Report Vivi! Also, check-out Bob Perry?s spectacular photography of this encounter (thanks to Dennis), posted at: www.CondorExpressPhotos.com John --Forwarded Message Attachment-- CC: vivi at fleurdev.com From: vivi at fleurdev.com Subject: The Blue Whale Tale July 2nd 2010 Written for rain list volunteer of Channel Islands Marine Corps Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 21:40:56 -0700 To: jkuizenga at linkline.com Today was a Stellar day aboard the Condor Express. Between the Sun & the Fog emerged a most magical experience that continued throughout the day. So much so, that Captain Matt kept announcing over the microphone that "this never happens! "In 15 years aboard the Condor Express he said " He had never seen anything like this ." Not only did we come upon a beautiful female Blue Whale , but she was a full grown Mama Blue Whale with a wonderful 35 foot baby by her side.. No sooner did we come upon the 2 Blue Whales, that the Mama decided to park her youngin' ( baby Blue ) with the Condor Express and swim off to feed on the plentiful krill in these waters. The Baby Blue Whale decided he was going to have some fun with the new babysitter. he proceeded to swim round & round the boat, coming as close as he could & then diving beneath over & over , then almost on cue pop up just on the other side. I began to wonder if the Humpbacks & Grays had a peck or two in this : ) and perhaps they had created an underwater school for the baby Blue the Gray & Humpbacks.. for this was certainly not Blue behavior per se. After a few rounds of that with the 85 plus passengers moving from side to side & deck to deck , camera shutters on flying .. clicking as fast as they could go , the 35 foot baby Blue thought it would be even more fun to roll on his back exposing his very tender belly . And as if that was not enough he also lunged forward as though he was trying to breach all on his own , while Mama was quite a long distance away. And then there was the moment when he headed straight towards the boat, looking up from the waters crest view, showing some of the lucky folks above a view of his precocious 6 month or so eyeball. This was the day we had... us very lucky Santa Barbaran(s) and others from around the globe just passing through these waters. This was the mind blowing encounter that no matter where you were from , this single 35 foot & very friendly Baby Blue Whale gave new meaning to word Universal connection. Joyful moments that inspired our awe for Nature & unified us two leggeds with those creatures of the sea. A whale of a tale that will continue to be told around the globe. Have a Wonderful 4th of July !! Vivi Teston ^ ^ ) _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. 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I heard that IPCO found blues much further east than we were. They must have moved a lot over night. BONUS: We saw four kinds of dolphin. Commons, Risso's, Pacific White Sided and...wait for it...northern right whale dolphins. The commons were in a separate group. The other three were in one big group. This was my first sighting of the northern right whale dolphins...that I know of. Though I now will look harder when I think I might think I'm looking at a sea lion. Captain Dave said he usually sees them with other dolphins, and my reading from today confirmed that they often are found with Risso's and Pacific White Siders...which was surely true today. It was pretty calm today, but still a fair number of heavers. Fortunately I escaped unscathed this time. Oh, both days Jim Peckarsky was on board and played a 20 minute DVD on the way back home. He narrates the DVD and is terrifically funny and smart. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From garydel at aol.com Mon Jul 5 19:46:11 2010 From: garydel at aol.com (garydel at aol.com) Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:46:11 -0400 Subject: [CINC] Condor July 5 Message-ID: <8CCEACC87530A6D-7AC-2A8DC@webmail-d053.sysops.aol.com> Just the facts... Blues.......... 4 Common Dolfins........... 1000+ Puffin ........ 1 The first blue was a solitary soul doing the 7-8 minute dive between appearances. When in view, s/he presented good dorsal views, but no flukes. Later, with at least 3 (actually seen) Blues in the area, Capts. Matt and Dave focused on another large Blue that we followed for quite some time. S/he never did the classic deep dive, but instead lunge fed continuously at the surface on very evident clouds of krill. In fact, clouds of krill were evident as they entered the whale, and also as they left... whale poop. This feeding cycle revealed the Blue's deeply pleated throat and its great length as it lunged across the surface of the water, on its side. Really... a wonderful sequence of behaviors! The 2 other distant Blues repeatedly showed their ample flukes as they dove. A smaller pod of Commons, somewhat dispersed, welcomed us to the channel less than midway across. Similarly, a larger and tighter pod was seen on the way home. Now the puffin... a tufted one, seen approximately mid channel, all alone, but putting on a bit of show wing flapping, preening, etc. Two of the Condor's frequent and professional birders were aboard for this rare treat and one birder from Texas was very thrilled at this sighting. About 60 passengers from the UK, Belgium, Wisconsin, Texas and other foreign and domestic locales seemed to have appreciated this day's adventure. Always gray and overcast, but that may be why the krill was at the surface. Beaufort about a 1, with very minimal swells. Carol Celic on Photo ID, and me.... Gary Delanoeye -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From camccleskey at yahoo.com Mon Jul 5 22:15:20 2010 From: camccleskey at yahoo.com (Carolyn McCleskey) Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 22:15:20 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CINC] SFGate: Krill's return is good news for ocean Message-ID: <806046.22608.qm@web33405.mail.mud.yahoo.com> FW: SFGate: Krill's return is good news for ocean How about some good news for a change? Subject: SFGate: Krill's return is good news for ocean ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This article was sent to you by someone who found it on SFGate. The original article can be found on SFGate.com here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2010/05/23/SP2I1DHPPO.DTL ?--------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, May 23, 2010 (SF Chronicle) Krill's return is good news for ocean Tom Stienstra ???The old sea off the Bay Area coast is showing new life, and it's the best news in years for salmon, marine birds and whales. ???Krill, a small shrimp-like crustacean and one of the linchpins in the marine food chain, are back in vast swarms off the Bay Area coast. It was their disappearance four years ago that led scientists to predict a collapse of salmon, which then was compounded by losses of juvenile fish at water pumps. ???"The water is full of feed, with massive spots of krill," said Tom Mattusch, captain of the Huli Cat out of Half Moon Bay. Other skippers across the Gulf of the Farallones are reporting similar finds in many areas. ???The salmon season has been stunted by periods of wind, rough seas and a procession of cold, low-pressure systems that have kept boats at ports - but the feed conditions are outstanding. Enough good days have arrived to provide hope for a good salmon season this summer, spiked perhaps by periods of brilliance. ???One of those days arrived last Sunday on the Huli Cat. With a small charter of five people aboard for a crab-salmon combo, Mattusch guided his boat outside the Deep Reef off Half Moon Bay. In a few hours, they caught 21 salmon (releasing most), topped by a 14-pounder; three were over the 24-inch minimum, 10 were 20-24 inches, and eight were just less than 20 inches. They also hauled in limits of Dungeness crab, 30 in all, six per person. ???"We had times when every rod on the boat was going off with fish," Mattusch said. ???The top spot has been outside the Deep Reef at the 50-fathom line. The sea temperature (52 degrees) has been ideal for salmon. So much plankton and shrimp have limited clarity, which is preferred because crystal clear water can make fish (they don't have eyelids) go deep and become tentative. As a result, the salmon have been schooling in the primary feed zone, 18 to 35 feet deep, and are on the attack. ???The key to this ocean revival is probably the return of upwelling off the Bay Area coast. Strong winds out of the northwest divert surface currents to the side, and in turn, deep, cold and nutrient-rich water replaces it on the surface. When sunlight penetrates that fresh surface layer, it triggers the marine food chain. ???This revival will help troubled species, such as the common murre, the lovable little seabird that breeds in prolific numbers at the Farallon Islands, and all shorebirds, from gulls to puffins, as well as marine mammals, especially whales. ???After no fishing for salmon for two years, the krill will boost salmon, from juveniles to adults. ???To help avoid losses of juvenile salmon at water pumps, the state Department of Fish and Game has developed a program in which it trucks smolts from hatcheries and then releases them in net pens in the north bay. When those young fish make their way to the ocean, they will find plenty of feed waiting. That will increase survival rates. ???Adult salmon can grow an inch and a pound per month when enough feed is available, like now. So all those 20- to 24-inch salmon out there are likely to reach the legal 24-inch keeper size this summer. ???Info: Huli Cat, (650) 726-2926, hulicat.com. For a list of charter boats, marinas and tackle shops, see archived story at sfgate.com, "Mystery envelops first salmon opener in 3 years," which was published April 1. ?--------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes ???What's that shadow? Jack Foster was fly-fishing at Lewiston Lake last weekend when he hooked a big rainbow trout (17 inches, says Foster). He was fighting it near the boat, when a bald eagle appeared, snatched the fish and tried to fly off with it - while the trout was still hooked. The eagle wrestled the fish free and then soared off. "It came from behind us without making any noise," Foster said. "If I knew the eagle was coming, I could have reached out and touched it. I never would have believed it if I hadn't seen it." ?--------------------------------------------------------------------- ???Bobcat alert: May and June is the best time of year to see bobcats, when they emerge from hiding to stalk newly born rabbits, quail and other prey. Barbara Adamson reported a sighting last week in Corte Madera. ?--------------------------------------------------------------------- E-mail Tom Stienstra at tstienstra at sfchronicle.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 2010 SF Chronicle -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bweinerth at hotmail.com Tue Jul 6 15:55:55 2010 From: bweinerth at hotmail.com (bill weinerth) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 22:55:55 +0000 Subject: [CINC] sub needed Message-ID: I am scheduled for PID on the IPCO WW out of Ventura on July 14th. Since I am also taping the Shore to Sea lecture that same night I think I am over booked and need a sub for the WW trip. Bill Weinerth -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maria at rasnowpeak.com Tue Jul 6 21:39:53 2010 From: maria at rasnowpeak.com (Maria G. Ornelas) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 21:39:53 -0700 Subject: [CINC] CX Whale-watching July 6 Message-ID: Hi Naturalists, Sightings: 2 adult Blue Whales Pod of Common Dolphins (~ 200) Many groups of 2-10 California Sea Lions Captain Matt and crew, Naturalists Pat, Don, and Maria, along with 32 paying passengers left SB Harbor at 10:00 a.m. under overcast skies and calm seas (Beaufort 0-1). Visibility was a few miles. Weather conditions remained stable throughout the trip. An hour later we encountered the pod of Common Dolphins, to everyone's delight. Half hour later, on our way towards SCI, we sighted the whales. They were feeding on the surface and traveling slowly. They came very close to the boat. One of the Blues was a bit evasive at first, but then relaxed and we were able enjoy both whales. One of them got within ~ 25 feet of the boat, and during one of those visits, the whale left us a present of "processed" krill. It was the most colorful (bright-red) excrement ever. For over an hour, we were treated to wonderful flukes a few times, as well as to powerful exhalations. Captain Matt than headed Northeast SCI but did not find the Humpbacks. He proceeded along the Island, and treated the passengers to Painted Cave. On our way back to the harbor, as well as on the way out, we saw many small groups of sea lions thermoregulating. They were floating on their backs, with limbs sticking out of the water, they looked like rafts, so I was not surprised when a passenger asked "What is that?" They looked really funny. We all had a wonderful, relaxing time out in the water. Maria G. Ornelas maria at rasnowpeak.com \ / \ / ??'?.??..><((((?>.???'?.??.???'?.?><((({?>?.???'?.?. ,. / \ / \ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mr.zalophus at gmail.com Wed Jul 7 07:13:11 2010 From: mr.zalophus at gmail.com (Mr Zalophus) Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 07:13:11 -0700 Subject: [CINC] CX Whale-watching July 6 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Photos of the Blue Whales, frisky Common Dolphins and abundant Sea Lions are now posted to the boat photo site: http://www.condorexpressphotos.com/Other/2010-07-06-SB-Channel/ Thanks for the great report, Maria! best fishes Bob Perry Condor Express On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Maria G. Ornelas wrote: > Hi Naturalists, > > Sightings: > 2 adult Blue Whales > Pod of Common Dolphins (~ 200) > Many groups of 2-10 California Sea Lions > > Captain Matt and crew, Naturalists Pat, Don, and Maria, along with 32 > paying passengers left SB Harbor at 10:00 a.m. under overcast skies and calm > seas (Beaufort 0-1). Visibility was a few miles. Weather conditions remained > stable throughout the trip. An hour later we encountered the pod of Common > Dolphins, to everyone's delight. Half hour later, on our way towards SCI, we > sighted the whales. They were feeding on the surface and traveling slowly. > They came very close to the boat. One of the Blues was a bit evasive at > first, but then relaxed and we were able enjoy both whales. One of them got > within ~ 25 feet of the boat, and during one of those visits, the whale left > us a present of "processed" krill. It was the most colorful (bright-red) > excrement ever. For over an hour, we were treated to wonderful flukes a few > times, as well as to powerful exhalations. > > Captain Matt than headed Northeast SCI but did not find the Humpbacks. He > proceeded along the Island, and treated the passengers to Painted Cave. On > our way back to the harbor, as well as on the way out, we saw many small > groups of sea lions thermoregulating. They were floating on their backs, > with limbs sticking out of the water, they looked like rafts, so I was not > surprised when a passenger asked "What is that?" They looked really funny. > We all had a wonderful, relaxing time out in the water. > > Maria G. Ornelas > maria at rasnowpeak.com > > \ / \ / > ??'?.??..><((((?>.???'?.??.???'?.?><((({?>?.???'?.?. ,. > / \ / \ > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 nkvanslyke at verizon.net Wed Jul 7 21:28:57 2010 From: nkvanslyke at verizon.net (Noel and Kathy Van Slyke) Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:28:57 -0700 Subject: [CINC] July 4th weekend on SCI Message-ID: <0L5800KMC1SJHLN8@vms173015.mailsrvcs.net> Only marine mammals coming and going were common dolphins. The rest of this e-mail is about the new island hike so those of you that do not do island hikes may not be interested in the rest of this posting. The days on the island were great fun. I had a chance to do the new family walk designed for kids and parents 3 times. Over the weekend I led 7 walks so almost half of them were the new walk. For those of you that are trained in this walk, I hope you will try it. I can say this weekend I enjoyed it as much and possibly more than the regular walk. My group sizes for the family walk were between 10 and 20. Some hints for doing the hike I learned this weekend and reactions to the hike 1. It is a great help to have your pictures in the three inner envelopes (one for each stop) and those three in a larger envelope (10 X 13). Then you can easily grab the pictures easily for the stops. 2. It is also helpful to have pictures for each stop arranged in useful order with rubber bands surrounding them to keep them in order -- then you can pull the pictures out quickly and hand them out easily. Also kids and parents are very good about picking up chips and putting them in the bag while you are collecting pictures at the first stop. 3. When you start the walk, make sure that you are on the beach side of the cave with the door frame. -- If there are visitors that want to eat it can work meeting at that table on the beach side of the cave but it is better even closer to the beach. 4. When you get to the cave and ask the kids what they think it was used for a lot said housing -- in addition to getting them to get the real answer it is a good opportunity to tell them that they did build better housing than that but had to adapt by using what they had on island and about being self sufficient. The cave is a big hit as is the well. 5. One thing that surprised me was that in one of the groups the kids didn't know what a ranch was -- may need to ask and define. I cut ranching material somewhat but that was expected. 6. If possible and you have a second naturalist it works really well to announce what you are going to do (choice of walks) during the orientation. 7. On the fox activity I made a point of addressing all comments to Mr. Fox, Miss Golden Eagle etc. On this one I asked the kids whether they wanted to be a good character, a bad character etc. as I gave out the roles. Kids seemed to really enjoy that part of the activity. Gave the parents the roles that were not very involved. 8. All activities worked pretty much as written. Out of the three groups, I went on to Cavern Point with two of them. One I ended at the campground. The kids and parents really seemed to enjoy all the activities and were able to answer the questions at the end. One family chose to go on the walk and delay their kayaking when they heard about it. Comments I got from parents were as follows: 1.. A parent told me it fit very well and reinforced what they had studied in school (for family with three kids -- the comment was about 2 of the three-- the third was too young to have had it reinforced but the girl enjoyed it anyway) 2. One parent commented that she liked the program because it was so interactive -- another liked it because we got down to the kids level. Anybody having any questions about the walk, please don't hesitate to e-mail me individually or phone me. I am very enthusiastic about how it went and hope you will try it and have the fun with it that I did. Kathy Van Slyke -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From landerson at islandpackers.com Thu Jul 8 11:10:29 2010 From: landerson at islandpackers.com (Lisa Anderson) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 11:10:29 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Condor today, and yesterday! In-Reply-To: <20100705015031.b53ca90d@corp.kvcinc.com> References: <20100705015031.b53ca90d@corp.kvcinc.com> Message-ID: <002501cb1ec8$da1a99e0$8e4fcda0$@com> I guess that means you have been baptized! HAAAAAAAA From: channel_islands_naturalist_corps-bounces at rain.org [mailto:channel_islands_naturalist_corps-bounces at rain.org] On Behalf Of Scott Cuzzo Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2010 6:51 PM To: channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org Subject: [CINC] Condor today, and yesterday! Yesterday on the Condor we saw about 5 blues and 5 humpbacks. Great viewing of all, some close approaches by the humps, and some of the blues even came fairly close. About 500 commons were seen in one group too. And a kid threw up on my shoe. Today on the Condor the blues from the day before were NOT to be found where they were yesterday. We did not find any blues today. But we did find a LOT of humpbacks. Two were lunge feeding over and over quite close to the boat. Probably the best lunge feeding I have seen in the Channel. I heard that IPCO found blues much further east than we were. They must have moved a lot over night. BONUS: We saw four kinds of dolphin. Commons, Risso's, Pacific White Sided and...wait for it...northern right whale dolphins. The commons were in a separate group. The other three were in one big group. This was my first sighting of the northern right whale dolphins...that I know of. Though I now will look harder when I think I might think I'm looking at a sea lion. Captain Dave said he usually sees them with other dolphins, and my reading from today confirmed that they often are found with Risso's and Pacific White Siders...which was surely true today. It was pretty calm today, but still a fair number of heavers. Fortunately I escaped unscathed this time. Oh, both days Jim Peckarsky was on board and played a 20 minute DVD on the way back home. He narrates the DVD and is terrifically funny and smart. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Please see the August outreach calendar: http://www.nps.gov/chis/supportyourpark/volunteer-schedules.htm The Ventura County Fair starts on August 4, and we have the usual shifts available through the 15th. I will sign you up based on a first-come, first-serve basis when I return. We are making some exciting changes to our exhibit based on the theme Western Nights and Carnival Lights. Note that August 10 is seniors and disabled citizens day, and August 6 is youth day. If you are out and about, be sure to stop by our booth on July 17, Saturday, at the Ventura County In-Water Boat Show & Green Expo in Channel Islands Harbor http://www.ci-boatshow.com/. We will be sharing the usual information about our wonderful sanctuary and park, as well as information on NOAA's Marine Debris Program http://marinedebris.noaa.gov/. (Yes, all of the shifts are filled for this event, so thank you!) Best, Tina -- Tina Johnson Ventura County Field Office Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary 3550 S. 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Please find the images from these trips on the boat photo site: http://www.condorexpressphotos.com/Other/2010-07-06-SB-Channel <--- Blues, and Common Dolphins run amok http://www.condorexpressphotos.com/Other/2010-07-07-SB-Channel <-- great encouter with Risso's http://www.condorexpressphotos.com/Other/2010-07-08-SB-Channel <--mugged by Humpbacks and mobbed by Sea Lions. best fishes, Bob Perry Condor Express -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ginnyafischer at me.com Fri Jul 9 20:15:33 2010 From: ginnyafischer at me.com (Ginny Fischer) Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:15:33 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Condor Trip 7/9 Message-ID: It was a pretty calm day out on the channel. The weather remained floggy but the 57 passengers got their cetacean eyefull. Our sightings were off of SRI: 100 Commons 10 White Sided Dolphins 2 Blues...busy feeding 6 Humpies...one displaying his/her breaching talents Capt. Mat, Dave and Jacque were the crewmembers. John Kuizenga and Ginny Fisher were the naturalists and Marilyn Dannnehower was on PID. Special guests for this trip were Sanctuary Sam the Sea Lion and Ed the Bear from the UK. John will be sending out a report to let you know why these kids were with us on this magical day. From jkuizenga at linkline.com Sat Jul 10 20:35:16 2010 From: jkuizenga at linkline.com (John Kuizenga) Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 20:35:16 -0700 Subject: [CINC] WW, CX 7/9 Message-ID: Bear on Board, yep, you heard it right, with a Sea Lion for a companion! Greetings Fellow Naturalist! These two critters, not the most loquacious, rather sedentary, but ever vigilant, joined CX skipper, Matt, crew Dave and Jacques, along with naturalist Marilyn Dannehower, Ginny Fischer and myself, for a Friday foray into the SB Channel. Approximately 65 passengers were informed prior to our departure, we would be venturing further west than usual and as a consequence our usual visit to Painted Cave would be scuttled, in favor of Skipper Matt?s quest for Blues and Humpbacks. And travel West we did, almost to a point just north of Sandy Point at the West End of Santa Rosa, in approximately 200 fathoms, which is about 6 miles of the coast of SR. This was the furthest point west we laid down a track. However, before reaching that area we happen on a Humpback here and there and then the density of MN?s increased and we were surrounded by four to five at various times with others blows noted off in the distance. Marilyn?s (PID) timing was right-on and she imaged some great Humpback fluke shots! As we journeyed further west the number of Humpbacks increased and then, we also began observing the tall vapor spouts of BM?s, momentarily suspended. While the sea wasn?t glassy, as in the previous several days, the winds were light. As we ventured on, to our most Western Point, the number of Blues increase and looking off in the distance it seem that for every two Humpback spouts seen, there was one BM blow and both species were swimming in relative close proximity (1/4-1.0 mile) to each other. My guesstimate is there were at least 15-20 Humpbacks in the area and maybe half that many Blues. While it was another overcast day, so May Gray and June Gloom have extended into, July ____________(you fill in blank), the swell was negligible with a 2? wind wave and most passengers faired quite well, even heading directly into the seas for 75 minutes, until we had our initial sightings. Great group of passengers, from many countries and all walks of life, who the three of us had ample time to chat with. They were an appreciative group for all the marine life they were viewing and thankful to us for sharing our love and knowledge of marine life in the SB Channel. While krill wasn?t on the surface (300? today, ?Matt?), as had been the case earlier in the week, the marine layer it did help to abate the wind. If fact, the most wind we had was within a mile or two of SB Harbor. MN Behaviors included: Breaching (one 10 times), 3-4 Tail Throws, Snorkeling, High Pitched Whines, and Fluking! BM?s Behaviors, as is normally the case, were not as showy, but one in a group of two, performed some side-swimming, (possibly feeding?) and of course diving. It seemed like it took minutes for their huge bodies pass along the surface before descending beneath the sea. Before I explain to anyone interested about our special passengers, yesterday?s (7/9) the numbers are as follows: * 10 Humpbacks, with many others off in the distance * 4 Blues with double to triple that number beyond * 3-4 sightings of Common Dolphins, I?d estimate, 200 total * 40 very active Pacific White Sided Dolphins * Many rafts of thermo-regulating Sea Lions * Sea Birds, with a few exceptions, were notably absent, other than a few Gulls (some Heermann?s) Pelicans and several Double Crested Cormorants?? Your guessed it, our special guest aboard the CX today were stuffed animals, Ed the Bear from the UK and the our very own CINMS Seal Lion, who if he/she has a name, I?m sorry to report I don?t know it? Anyway, it seems Tina Johnson was contacted by an elementary school teacher (Steve Savage) of the UK about the possibility of taking Ed to sea with us, so he could report back to his class, in Jolly ?Ole England, about ?global marine conditions?. Apparently, his class has been exposed to local marine environments and issues but he?s attempting to expand their horizons and knowledge to include, marine conservations issues around the world. So , Ginny, Marilyn and myself attempted to expose, the well traveled, Ed to what we as naturalist experience here in the SB Channel on a regular basis. So as not to bore you folks, although perhaps it?s to late, I?ll be writing-up a short paper detailing a single macro-ocean issue germane to us locally, with world wide implications, such as, ocean acidity, ocean energy development, ship strikes, aqua-culture, upwelling, etc. If Tina feels this is noteworthy enough to pass-on to members of the Corps, I?m sure she?ll do so, however I?ll let her make that decision? Just one more thing about Ed the Bear, before I sign-off. When he came aboard he was aptly attired for an aquatic adventure, complete with necessary name tag, ID and a PFD. However, being as he was going to sea and in our charge, we felt compelled to insure his PFD passed stringent USCG standards, so we dumped him overboard, just to make sure Steve and his class had fitted him out with top grade flotation material and and Ed would be safe. Note to Steve, The truth of the matter is, Ed never went in the drink, I?m just pulling your leg having a little fun but perhaps you shouldn?t share this with your kids! I will, through Tina, in the next week, be sending you a few more details about a marine conservation issue frequently discussed here in the Santa Barbara, for you to share with your students to help them understand marine issues with global implications, to help promote understanding at their level and explore creative solutions! Good luck with your ?marine based education project? and I hope you?re able to secure a funding source in the future. I will discuss with Tina or other staff Channel Islands Nat?l Marine Sanctuary Staff, if we can send you a small souvenir of Ed?s visit here with us. I was able to take some photos of Ed with our talented naturalist aboard the whale watch vessel (Condor Express), also with a few with passengers and driving the boat. Good Luck, John Kuizenga, Naturalist, CINMS -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From diver23 at cox.net Sun Jul 11 18:43:14 2010 From: diver23 at cox.net (Kevin Bailey) Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:43:14 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Blues - Humpbacks - and a Marine Bio Blitz Message-ID: <001501cb2163$97f97ca0$c7ec75e0$@net> Hi CINCers We were up in Monterey last weekend and it was a marine bio sensory overload! Check this out: We went whale watching with the Monterey Bay Whale Watch Center with Capt Richard and naturalist Kate Spencer Right out of the gate we saw cetaceans from about 10 minutes from the dock the entire time. For starters the beaches and breakwater and every other surface had sea lions. There were hundreds ? maybe over 1000 in the immediate harbor area. Many were quite small. Many new births. They showed up about a month ago and people up there are saying ?they are from Santa Barbara? and not sure why they came here. We suspect the food since many looked underweight and they were pupping in places that a sea lion would not normally be giving birth. The boat trip started off with a Minke ? which soon turned into 5 Minke Whales in the area before we were even out of the Bay. Then once we turned the corner to the south out of the Bay the spouts were EVERYWHERE. Blue Whale spouts sky high everywhere near and far! The official count on our morning trip was over 8 Blues that were close to us with many others 1-2 miles off in distance. Then we started seeing breaching and lunge feeding in groups, in the distance. Which way should we go? So much action we need to pick a place to go and watch the show! The Humpbacks were feeding in groups all around us. There were 3 on the left, 2 in the front and 4 to the right and then many more 200 yards, 500 yards, ? mile 1 mile etc whales, whales, whales! It was whale soup for sure. The Humpbacks (25+ in numbers were doing every trick in the book in the deep canyon: Lunge feeding right next to the boat and also in the distance all around us (we got great looks at the inside of the Humpbacks mouth and baleen from about 20 feet! Our best look at live baleen yet), trumpeting, lobtailing, spyhopping, breaching. The boats fish finder could see huge amounts of krill at 200 and 400 feet in different locations. Also seen on the boat trip were 4 Harbor seals but there is another beach, just around the corner from the aquarium, that the sea lions haven?t taken over that was covered in several hundred harbor seals; they were also on rocks along the coast from the wharf all the way down past Pacific Grove. Sea Otters were plenty in the harbor area but not as many as we have seen before. We watched several including one that dove and got a small octopus, a crab, a sea star. We saw another pair keep swimming to the same rock to peel off food and mom would hand off food to nearly grown but lazy juvenile. Also 100 Pacific white sided dolphins and 20 Northern Right Whale dolphins that were mixed in together and came up to the boat and rode the bow for quite a long time. As for birds: We saw 2 BLACK FOOTED ALBATROSS! on our boat trip and lots of Sooty Shearwaters Lots of pigeon guillemots ? their chicks were under all the ledges, docks, etc Seen on the boat or on shore were: Brandt?s Cormorants nesting, many with chicks. Pelagic Cormorants Many Western Gulls with chicks in nests on boats, docks, buildings, and any possible place you can lay an egg! Cassins Auklets Red necked phalaropes Black Crowned Night Heron Common Loons Red-Breast Merganser Canada Geese Rudy Duck Check out the boats sightings reports at http://www.montereybaywhalewatch.com/slstcurr.htm There was a local news story on the huge number of blues in MB: http://www.ksbw.com/video/24152320/index.html Kevin and Toni Bailey -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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There were spouts all around as far as the eye could see, and a Humpback breaching and pec slapping in the distance. At one point a Humpback essentially joined a Blue for a little bit of lunch and then moved on. We followed another pair of Humpbacks that were joined by the original pair we saw earlier. The whales seemed to be very excited as they mingled and swam faster. The Humpbacks were visited a few times by flash mobs of sea lions, and at one point one of the Humps trumpeted at the pinnipeds. Turning around to head over to Santa Cruz we stopped to check out a couple of more Blues that also graced the crowd with their flukes. Captain Mat took the boat over to Painted Cave, but wasn't able to show the passengers the cave since there was a skiff slowly coming out, and time was running out. Yet another great day to be out on the water! ~ Carol Celic -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Once I explain why we have the gloom (water warming etc) , most people understand and then they don't get too upset-plus at that point they figure out they haven't done much research-plus I remind them we need this moisture for as long as possible (fires). Thought maybe this information might help. :0) Lisa Anderson Island Packers 805-642-1393 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Shauna.Bingham at noaa.gov Mon Jul 12 12:35:52 2010 From: Shauna.Bingham at noaa.gov (Shauna Bingham) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:35:52 -0700 Subject: [CINC] BASKING SHARK SIGHTINGS Message-ID: <4C3B6E98.9020900@noaa.gov> Dear CINC Volunteers: Please help to spread the word that Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary is interested in receiving, as real time as possible, reports regarding basking shark sightings in the Santa Barbara Channel. Since basking shark sightings are rare, researchers from NOAA Fisheries have supplied the sanctuary research department with special basking shark tags so that we are able to respond to any reports in our region. *If you have a basking shark sighting to report:* please be contact *Dr. Steve Katz, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Research Coordinator, at: Steve.Katz at oaa.gov, or 805-963-3238 ext. 12*, with the _date, time, and location_ of the basking shark (and direction of travel if that is obvious). For more information about the basking shark tagging project please visit: http://swfsc.noaa.gov/textblock.aspx?Division=FRD&id=16327 The sanctuary is also working with the Monterey Bay Aquarium and Cal State Long Beach on white shark tagging in the Channel. For more information about the white shark tagging research: please visit http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/whiteshark.aspx http://www.csulb.edu/web/labs/sharklab/research/index.shtml Let me know if you have any questions and thank you for your support in passing the word around to the boat captains and to any others you know that spend a lot of time on the water. --Shauna -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kensword at cox.net Mon Jul 12 16:17:45 2010 From: kensword at cox.net (Kenneth A. Tatro) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:17:45 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Whales must shout Message-ID: Hi folks, An interesting article in the LA Times. http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-whale-talk-20100712,0,2795025.story Ken Tatro From michellec_wilson at yahoo.com Tue Jul 13 12:34:13 2010 From: michellec_wilson at yahoo.com (Michelle Wilson) Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:34:13 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CINC] IPCO Sat. 7/10 Message-ID: <542085.25961.qm@web111501.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> All day whale watch where 22+ blue whales and?5 humpbacks sighted off Santa Rosa Island.? Trip to Painted Cave and along the coast of Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz included.? Awesome day! ? Michelle Gibbs -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thanks! attached is the new prisoners hiking guide available for free at prisoners harbor bulletin board, at the mainland vc and at ipco. its actually the abridged version of the new eastern santa cruz guide which will eventually be printed once we run out of the old version. i've attached that one as well. (See attached file: 2010 prisoners abridged free guide website.pdf) (See attached file: 2010 interp guide web version.pdf) Derek Lohuis Channel Islands National Park 1901 Spinnaker Dr. Ventura, CA 93001 805-658-5736 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The are researching the topic through the site for NOAA and through interviews with Dr. Andrea Neil of Jean-Michel Cousteau's Ocean Futures Society based in Santa Barbara. The group, founded by Ms. Jordan Lerum, Ms. Kate Nelson, and Ms. Jaclyn Smith has already had beach cleanups in Santa Barbara and Carpinteria, has stood in the sand to call attention to the BP oil spill, and has gone to other countries to talk to school children about marine conservation. On July 24th, they will be working with "Surfers without Borders" at organizing a beach cleanup at Rincon Beach, which will include our CINC Picnic site. Ms. Nelson, the Mermaid group's president, stated in the article: " Non of us has a master's degree in marine biology, nor are we lobbyist. But we realize we're all creative. Let's combine our talents with the environmental community." The article concludes with the web address for those interested in joining or donating time or money. I know I will! Paul Petrich _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccount&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bhrian.resnik at gmail.com Thu Jul 8 17:15:37 2010 From: bhrian.resnik at gmail.com (bhrian resnik) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 17:15:37 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Condor Express Wed July 7th Message-ID: <4c366a2b.6202e70a.2c21.1188@mx.google.com> Small pod of Commons Approx. 12 Risso's One Fin Whale Three Humpbacks including cow calf pair Two Blues also cow calf pair Painted Cave What can I say Capt. Dave and crew did an incredible job. The calmest seas I have ever experienced especially going further west in search of the Blues. The 36 passengers experienced a trip of a lifetime (as did I). Bob Perry aboard so please visit the website. 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It's an inexpensive donation for a very good, local cause...and I've donated some of my photographic products for the on board raffle which I hope you win! best fishes (and Zalophus too) Bob Perry Condor Express -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 63989 bytes Desc: not available URL: From vfolson at cox.net Wed Jul 14 15:57:19 2010 From: vfolson at cox.net (Valerie Olson) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:57:19 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Condor on Wednesday, 14 July Message-ID: Hi All, Count for today: Blue Whales: 6 Common Dolphins: 2 small pods and one megapod Warm, sunny summer day with lots of chop. Great day on the channel for 70 passengers from all over the world. Valerie Olson, Rae Emmett and Gary Delaoeye (PID) From m_jsos at verizon.net Wed Jul 14 16:04:30 2010 From: m_jsos at verizon.net (mike & joyce sos) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:04:30 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Scorpion Visitor Center, 9am -5pm, 15 July Message-ID: <4C3E427E.3010308@verizon.net> I'll have to give up the slot tomorrow, as i'm still dealing with a sore throat. Here's a good opportunity to enjoy the great displays, great weather and the island foxes that usually wander through the area. Any takers? mike sos -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From klez18 at sbcglobal.net Wed Jul 14 22:40:19 2010 From: klez18 at sbcglobal.net (Marty Flam) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:40:19 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CINC] Island Fox Predation - Golden-Tim vs Bald-Paul Message-ID: <866481.95653.qm@web180105.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Dear Collegues, ? What can we naturalist- interpreters say without compromising?either scientific method or our credibility when two highly respected pre-eminent expert??biologists are apparently diametrically opposed about island fox predation?? ? I would love to hear your thoughts and will be happy to share with any who do comment, but be sure all is done?OFF?the rain list?to avoid inbox clutter concerns.? Thanks. ? All the best, ? Marty ? http://www.miller-mccune.com/science-environment/the-primitive-science-of-restoration-5145/ The Primitive Science of Restoration Biologists seek to ?do no harm,? improve island health, get rid of human-introduced predators and untangle complex relationships that developed on the fly. By Melinda Burns ? *** During the debate over how to bring back the fox population, Paul Collins ? curator of vertebrate zoology at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History ?and the co-author of a new study on the island fox recovery program ?? predicted that bald eagles, once reintroduced, might occasionally eat a fox. Now, he believes his prediction may have come true. ?There?s a good chance that we?re having predation from bald eagles,? he said. ?They may be feeding on dead carcasses they find. Or they may be chasing them down and catching them. It?s not something we didn?t expect.? ? Others say there?s no way bald eagles, a species native to the islands and known to eat mostly fish, could be preying on foxes. It?s much more likely, they say, that the guilty party is a transient golden eagle flying out from the mainland. Bald eagles are known scavengers, which could explain the presence of their feathers on fox carcasses. ? ?There?s absolutely no evidence that bald eagles take island foxes,? Coonan said. ?We absolutely don?t believe bald eagles are responsible for any of that.? *** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ppetrich39 at hotmail.com Thu Jul 15 07:46:10 2010 From: ppetrich39 at hotmail.com (Paul Jr. Petrich) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:46:10 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Island Fox Predation - Golden-Tim vs Bald-Paul In-Reply-To: <866481.95653.qm@web180105.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <866481.95653.qm@web180105.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Marty Again, I will suggest a study of related history in related geographic sectors, in as diligent a manor, as specific scientific research is done. After all, is not scientific research a controlled way of trying to duplicate real world issues in a more myopic setting, with controlled variables? In this case, Catalina Island and the ongoing Bald Eagle project there since the 1980s, under Mr Sharp, is a perfect example to look at. It has taken place at the same time the Santa Catalina Conservancy saved their Island Fox population from extinction, and at the same time the surrounding marine food base for the expanding Bald Eagle population was no where near its once historic bountifulness ( when it also helped support a huge commercial and sport fishing enterprise from the mainland). Catalina's Bald Eagles, CI Fox, and sardines have all been recovering together in one big ecosystem, which should be an example of some sort in this issue:and both the eagles there and the sardine populations obviously relate heavily to any research done in the Northern C I. Good luck, Paul Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:40:19 -0700 From: klez18 at sbcglobal.net To: channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org CC: Derek_Lohuis at nps.gov Subject: [CINC] Island Fox Predation - Golden-Tim vs Bald-Paul Dear Collegues, What can we naturalist- interpreters say without compromising either scientific method or our credibility when two highly respected pre-eminent expert biologists are apparently diametrically opposed about island fox predation? I would love to hear your thoughts and will be happy to share with any who do comment, but be sure all is done OFF the rain list to avoid inbox clutter concerns. Thanks. All the best, Marty http://www.miller-mccune.com/science-environment/the-primitive-science-of-restoration-5145/ The Primitive Science of Restoration Biologists seek to ?do no harm,? improve island health, get rid of human-introduced predators and untangle complex relationships that developed on the fly. By Melinda Burns *** During the debate over how to bring back the fox population, Paul Collins ? curator of vertebrate zoology at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and the co-author of a new study on the island fox recovery program ? predicted that bald eagles, once reintroduced, might occasionally eat a fox. Now, he believes his prediction may have come true. ?There?s a good chance that we?re having predation from bald eagles,? he said. ?They may be feeding on dead carcasses they find. Or they may be chasing them down and catching them. It?s not something we didn?t expect.? Others say there?s no way bald eagles, a species native to the islands and known to eat mostly fish, could be preying on foxes. It?s much more likely, they say, that the guilty party is a transient golden eagle flying out from the mainland. Bald eagles are known scavengers, which could explain the presence of their feathers on fox carcasses. ?There?s absolutely no evidence that bald eagles take island foxes,? Coonan said. ?We absolutely don?t believe bald eagles are responsible for any of that.? *** _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_1 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dean.benjamin at sbcglobal.net Thu Jul 15 09:12:21 2010 From: dean.benjamin at sbcglobal.net (Dean Benjamin) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:12:21 -0700 Subject: [CINC] IPCO Islander 7/14 Message-ID: 8 Blues 100 Common Dolphins 65 Passengers This was the all day 9-5 trip and the forecast was for a wild ride. In that regard, we were not disappointed and a few passengers were ill. But notwithstanding the seas, it was a great even thrilling trip. We headed straight for the feed grounds just north of the west end of Santa Cruz and came upon 3 Blues who were quite unconcerned with our presence. One was a bit small as Blue Whales go; the other 2 were massive adults. One displayed a slightly deformed left tail fluke. Capt. Anthony said this individual has been around much of the past few years. The Condor joined us shortly thereafter and so we headed toward Santa Rosa looking for Humpbacks, but with no luck. So we headed back to our previous area and found 5 Blues (probably the first 3 and 2 who had joined the group). Again, they were completely unruffled by our presence and gave us good up close looks and smells. Despite the rough seas and high winds, we made it deep into Painted Cave and finally found about 100 Common Dolphins on the way home. They seemed rather small in size, perhaps a nursery. The crew included Capt Anthony, who did a masterful job in challenging conditions, Ali, and Zack. Catherine French gave a great orientation, made the passengers feel welcome and engaged, and was so fun to sail with. Thanks Catherine. Dean -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From deb4nb at aol.com Thu Jul 15 14:23:56 2010 From: deb4nb at aol.com (deb4nb at aol.com) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:23:56 -0400 Subject: [CINC] SAC Mtg Tomorrow 7/16/10 Message-ID: <8CCF27B2A8FFD04-F98-1BC8@webmail-d069.sysops.aol.com> Hi All, Just a reminder of tomorrow's public Sanctuary Advisory Council meeting from 9:00-3:15 held at the CINP VC Auditorium. Materials including agenda are available at: http://channelislands.noaa.gov/sac/announcement.html As Shauna mentioned before, CINC volunteer hours can be counted for attending. Debra -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mr.zalophus at gmail.com Thu Jul 15 15:15:13 2010 From: mr.zalophus at gmail.com (Mr Zalophus) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:15:13 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Recent CX trip photos AND coastal Guillemots AND Gull Wars Message-ID: Greetings ocean life lovers. Several recent Condor Express trip galleries are now up for your viewing, including -- Humpback tail throwing (July 10) -- A Humpback mugs the Condor (July 11) -- Blue Whales lunge feeding (July 12) -- Blue Whales on a windy day (July 13) As a non-Condor bonus, yesterday I went looking along the mainland coast for Pigeon Guillemot nests and found them along with an attack on a juvenile western gull by an adult. You might enjoy seeing the Guillemots in their nests, but should be warned that the gull attack is a bit graphic, albeit natural selection in action: http://www.condorexpressphotos.com/Other/Pigeon-Guillemot-nests/ best fishes and have a WHALE of a day! 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To the latter's delight, half way out, and staying with us for a half hour, we encountered a very wide spread pod of Common Dolphin. At The Ledge, we encountered a Mamma Blue and her calf, getting great views of both for over a half hour in surprisingly calm seas. On turning for home we briefly visited with two more Blues. Capt. Dave took us into Painted cave at Santa Cruz, as far as the high tide allowed, and he and we volunteers shared our CINP and TNC knowledge with a lot of inquisitive first time So. Cal visitors. The Condor X crew of Jacque, Dennis (DG), and Bob Perry (photos) had an easy time of it compared to the day prior. No obvious sea sick passengers! However, we volunteers had a great opportunity to share our knowledge about the unique blend of micro-climates we have in our CINP and CINMS region! While we and all passengers were up top in shirt sleeves and shorts near Santa Barbara, by the time we were turning back to Painted Cave, it was overcast and all aboard were bundled up and inside, dodging a very cool marine windchill! Yet, as we approached our Paradise Coastline of SB, the sun was out again, the water was calm and clear, and a pod of 75 Long Beaked Commons put on a great show, and I went straight to the beach after docking! Paul Petrich _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccount&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From deb4nb at aol.com Sat Jul 17 11:23:27 2010 From: deb4nb at aol.com (deb4nb at aol.com) Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:23:27 -0400 Subject: [CINC] CX Kit Info, Msg from Cpt. Mat, Other News Message-ID: <8CCF3F4492666C6-3324-18777@Webmail-d121.sysops.aol.com> Greetings All, Found in Condor CINC Interp Kit: A lovely matted print with blue whale size comparison by artist Samara King. If it is yours, please let me know (off the rainlist). Also someone must have donated a gray whale calf model which has been in the kit for awhile. If so let me know so I can put a label on it, or if you need it back. Thanks to Bob for providing a new krill jar. I will get a CINC label on it soon. For PIDers: There are extra blank PID data sheets in a folder inside the interp kit. Message from Capt. Mat: Mat asked me to post that CINC volunteers please show up on the CX before passengers board. There have been occasions when volunteers have arrived at the boat right before departure. At least 20 minutes before departure would be helpful (I believe this is in our manual/CX guidelines as well). Passengers are often at the dock waiting as early as 9:30 (30 min prior). 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Dave considerately warned all 90 signed up passengers for the trip that rough sea were forecast on the way to our distant whale watching destination at the Ledge off the NW shore of Santa Rosa Island: And that the day before most passengers got sea sick. Only two opted to accept pre-boarding rain-checks. So Don Shubert (PID), Dick Bellman, and myself departed with 88 passengers on a voyage that hopefully would produce better results than the day prior's experience for all aboard (a rare zero sighting day for the season). It certainly did! Aboard we had passengers from France, Austria, The Netherlands, and many points east in the USA. Lots of young kids, too. To the latter's delight, half way out, and staying with us for a half hour, we encountered a very wide spread pod of Common Dolphin. At The Ledge, we encountered a Mamma Blue and her calf, getting great views of both for over a half hour in surprisingly calm seas. On turning for home we briefly visited with two more Blues. Capt. Dave took us into Painted cave at Santa Cruz, as far as the high tide allowed, and he and we volunteers shared our CINP and TNC knowledge with a lot of inquisitive first time So. Cal visitors. The Condor X crew of Jacque, Dennis (DG), and Bob Perry (photos) had an easy time of it compared to the day prior. No obvious sea sick passengers! However, we volunteers had a great opportunity to share our knowledge about the unique blend of micro-climates we have in our CINP and CINMS region! While we and all passengers were up top in shirt sleeves and shorts near Santa Barbara, by the time we were turning back to Painted Cave, it was overcast and all aboard were bundled up and inside, dodging a very cool marine windchill! Yet, as we approached our Paradise Coastline of SB, the sun was out again, the water was calm and clear, and a pod of 75 Long Beaked Commons put on a great show, and I went straight to the beach after docking! Paul Petrich The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. Get busy. _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get more from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_2 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lhittnp at sbcglobal.net Sat Jul 17 19:38:49 2010 From: lhittnp at sbcglobal.net (Linda Hitt) Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 19:38:49 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CINC] sub needed Message-ID: <811153.5995.qm@web83708.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> I need someone to take my ESCI hike spot on Wed July21, please.? Linda -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mr.zalophus at gmail.com Sun Jul 18 12:37:44 2010 From: mr.zalophus at gmail.com (Mr Zalophus) Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:37:44 -0700 Subject: [CINC] B.m. with entanglement scars and a giant M.m. Message-ID: Hi, all... 1- As Paul noted, the Condor Express has regularly seen a Blue Whale cow (with calf) that has a "scrape" across her somewhat bony spine at the tail stock. Orange flesh shows as well as a strip of muscle meat. There are also abrasions on the inside edge of the tail fluke itself, and on the right side of the tail stock are some circumference "wrap" scars. The whale appears to be fine other than its obvious skinny condition and the possible entanglement wound. See the images at: http://www.condorexpressphotos.com/Other/2010-07-07-SB-Channel http://www.condorexpressphotos.com/Other/2010-07-11 http://www.condorexpressphotos.com/Other/2010-07-16-SB-Channel 2- Yesterday's Blue Whale cow/calf pair were different individuals...no wounds, and we had a giant Mola mola. See the pics: http://www.condorexpressphotos.com/Other/2010-07-17-SB-Channel Best fishes and have a WHALE of a day! Bob Perry Condor Express On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Paul Jr. Petrich wrote: > Important P.S.! > Skipper Dave noted, on one actual mini-fluke of Mama Blue, she had > definite scares on her flukes identifying that she had a serious encounter > with active nets or Ghost Nets in the distant past. They were a long time > healed. Paul > > ------------------------------ > From: ppetrich39 at hotmail.com > To: channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org > Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 09:05:38 -0700 > Subject: [CINC] Condor X 7/16/10 > > Ahoy Volunteers, > Capt. Dave considerately warned all 90 signed up passengers for the trip > that rough sea were forecast on the way to our distant whale watching > destination at the Ledge off the NW shore of Santa Rosa Island: And that the > day before most passengers got sea sick. Only two opted to accept > pre-boarding rain-checks. So Don Shubert (PID), Dick Bellman, and myself > departed with 88 passengers on a voyage that hopefully would produce better > results than the day prior's experience for all aboard (a rare zero sighting > day for the season). It certainly did! > Aboard we had passengers from France, Austria, The Netherlands, and many > points east in the USA. Lots of young kids, too. To the latter's delight, > half way out, and staying with us for a half hour, we encountered a very > wide spread pod of Common Dolphin. At The Ledge, we encountered a Mamma Blue > and her calf, getting great views of both for over a half hour in > surprisingly calm seas. On turning for home we briefly visited with two more > Blues. Capt. Dave took us into Painted cave at Santa Cruz, as far as the > high tide allowed, and he and we volunteers shared our CINP and TNC > knowledge with a lot of inquisitive first time So. Cal visitors. > The Condor X crew of Jacque, Dennis (DG), and Bob Perry (photos) had an > easy time of it compared to the day prior. No obvious sea sick passengers! > However, we volunteers had a great opportunity to share our knowledge about > the unique blend of micro-climates we have in our CINP and CINMS region! > While we and all passengers were up top in shirt sleeves and shorts near > Santa Barbara, by the time we were turning back to Painted Cave, it was > overcast and all aboard were bundled up and inside, dodging a very cool > marine windchill! Yet, as we approached our Paradise Coastline of SB, the > sun was out again, the water was calm and clear, and a pod of 75 Long Beaked > Commons put on a great show, and I went straight to the beach after docking! > Paul Petrich > > > ------------------------------ > The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with > Hotmail. Get busy. > > ------------------------------ > Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get more from your > inbox. See how. > > _______________________________________________ > 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 bhrian.resnik at gmail.com Sun Jul 18 17:07:53 2010 From: bhrian.resnik at gmail.com (bhrian resnik) Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 17:07:53 -0700 Subject: [CINC] CX Sat 17th Message-ID: Small pod of Commons 4-Blues including cow/calf 4-Humpbacks; 1 noted others in distance 1-Dalls 1-Mola Mola Quite rough conditions and recent sightings of Blues further west influenced Capt. Mat to head west all the way to Gaviota. We then headed south towards SRI into increasing wind and swells with limited visibility before encountering the whales. Unfortunately it was a trip for sea worthy passengers and a fair number of the 102 were not doing so well. It was quite late before we found the first blow and we had traveled much further than normal in rough seas so our observation time was limited and challenging in these conditions. We returned to SB around 1530hrs. Capt. Mat and his crew did a fantastic job of finding these sightings in such adverse conditions. It was a pleasure working with fellow naturalist's Scott Cuzzo and Lisa Angle-PID and Bob Perry. Sorry for this delayed posting, Bhrian -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From diver23 at cox.net Sun Jul 18 22:10:11 2010 From: diver23 at cox.net (Kevin Bailey) Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 22:10:11 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Sun 7/18 Adventurer Message-ID: <001c01cb2700$b06cba70$11462f50$@net> Today the seas were as calm as you get in the eastern part of the channel and the sun was out the whole day from dock to SRI, along SCI and home. That didn't matter to the many sick people on board. We had a good group of stay-cationers with many families from San Diego county, Ventura County locals, a few from San Francisco and then AZ, TN ( who said this was about the best day they had ever had), a couple that flew in last night from Germany for 4 weeks of traveling, Swiss and a large group from Hong Kong. The 1st thing we saw were about 25 Risso's scattered over a wide area. We headed directly over to the SCR/SRI gap and once we got there, the whales were everywhere! We could see Blues and Humpbacks left, right front and back! Official count numbers were 8 Humpbacks of which 1 was PIDed with at least 3+ others off in the distance. The Blue official count was also 8 (of which 5 animals were PIDed) but there was maybe another 8-12 off farther in the distance. You could see many spouts off toward the west and north. There were many very happy, surprised people on board that left thrilled at the sight of so many whales! 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Mat, Other News In-Reply-To: <8CCF3F4492666C6-3324-18777@Webmail-d121.sysops.aol.com> References: <8CCF3F4492666C6-3324-18777@Webmail-d121.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <004101cb2769$435fc3f0$ca1f4bd0$@com> Please note-we ask all IPCO passengers as well as volunteers to check in 45 minutes prior to departure-some days we are checking in more than 300 people at a time-other days not so many-regardless-all volunteers need to check in 45 minutes prior to departure-as Deb has stated, this is an amazing time to interact with the passengers, and start your interp with the public. :0) Lisa From: channel_islands_naturalist_corps-bounces at rain.org [mailto:channel_islands_naturalist_corps-bounces at rain.org] On Behalf Of deb4nb at aol.com Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 11:23 AM To: channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org Subject: [CINC] CX Kit Info, Msg from Cpt. Mat, Other News Greetings All, Found in Condor CINC Interp Kit: A lovely matted print with blue whale size comparison by artist Samara King. If it is yours, please let me know (off the rainlist). Also someone must have donated a gray whale calf model which has been in the kit for awhile. If so let me know so I can put a label on it, or if you need it back. Thanks to Bob for providing a new krill jar. I will get a CINC label on it soon. For PIDers: There are extra blank PID data sheets in a folder inside the interp kit. Message from Capt. Mat: Mat asked me to post that CINC volunteers please show up on the CX before passengers board. There have been occasions when volunteers have arrived at the boat right before departure. At least 20 minutes before departure would be helpful (I believe this is in our manual/CX guidelines as well). Passengers are often at the dock waiting as early as 9:30 (30 min prior). What a great interp opportunity! Other news: A big congrats to Capt. 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We still have a need for volunteers to help with set-up on August 2 & 3, on opening day and for weekdays and weekends during the fair. Please see the attached or below, schedule will be posted on the NPS Web site when it is working properly again. :-) Tickets will be provided to volunteers on the day of their shift. Contact me directly if you would like to help out, and give me at least two preferences for your shifts. ~Tina *AUG 2**, MON *(_help set up exhibit -- no interp_)*:* Shift 10AM-2PM 1._ *Staci Kaye-Carr _2._ _ *AUG 3, TUE *(_help set up exhibit -- no interp_)*:* Shift 10AM-2PM 1._ Kathy Van Slyke _2._ _ *AUG 4, WED -- OPENING DAY:* First shift 11AM-4PM Second shift 4-9PM: 1._ _2._ _ *CINC to transport materials. *AUG 5, THU*:** First shift 11AM-4PM Second shift 4-9PM: 1._ Kathy Van Slyke _2._ _ *AUG 6, FRI*: (Youth Day)** First shift 11AM-4PM Second shift 4-9PM: 1._ Marty Garey _2._ Staci Kaye-Carr _ *AUG 7, SAT*:** First shift 11AM-4PM Second shift 4-9PM: 1._ _2._ _ *AUG 8, SUN*:** First shift 11AM-4PM Second shift 4-9PM: 1._ Linda Hitt _2._ Drew Picard _ *AUG 9, MON*:** First shift 11AM-4PM Second shift 4-9PM: 1._ _2._ _ *AUG 10, TUE*: (Seniors & Disabled Citizens Day)** First shift 11AM-4PM Second shift 4-9PM: 1._ Lola Lynch _2._ _ *AUG 11, WED*:** First shift 11AM-4PM Second shift 4-9PM: 1._ Paul Petrich _2._ Eugene Radding _ *AUG 12, THU*:** First shift 11AM-4PM Second shift 4-9PM: 1._ Natalie Swan _2._ _ *AUG 13, FRI*:** First shift 11AM-4PM Second shift 4-9PM: 1_. _2._ _ *AUG 14, SAT*:** First shift 11AM-4PM Second shift 4-9PM: 1._ _2._ _ *AUG 15, SUN*:** First shift 11AM-4PM Second shift 4-9PM: 1._ * _2._ _ *CINC to transport materials. -- Tina Johnson Ventura County Field Office Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary 3550 S. 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From islandkayaker at earthlink.net Tue Jul 20 17:29:20 2010 From: islandkayaker at earthlink.net (islandkayaker at earthlink.net) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:29:20 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [CINC] Final Recommendations of the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force Message-ID: <12146720.1279672160542.JavaMail.root@elwamui-hound.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Oops: That was the link to the PDF document. You can get the run down and the document here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ceq/initiatives/oceans Enjoy! -----Original Message----- >From: islandkayaker at earthlink.net >Sent: Jul 20, 2010 6:30 PM >To: channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org >Subject: [CINC] Final Recommendations of the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force > >FYI - Great News > >Now let's see them put their money where their mouth is and fund this. > >http://www.whitehouse.gov/files/documents/OPTF_FinalRecs. >_______________________________________________ >Channel_islands_naturalist_corps mailing list >Channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org >http://www.rain.org/mailman/listinfo/channel_islands_naturalist_corps From donshubert at roadrunner.com Wed Jul 21 09:07:28 2010 From: donshubert at roadrunner.com (Don Shubert) Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:07:28 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Whale watch trip available on August 4th Message-ID: <017601cb28ee$d15bc150$6b01a8c0@D999Z091> All: I had to change my trip from August 4th to August 5th on the Condor Express as a naturalist This will make one spot available on the 4th if someone can take it Thanks all -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From eradding at sbcglobal.net Wed Jul 21 22:34:34 2010 From: eradding at sbcglobal.net (EUGENE RADDING) Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:34:34 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CINC] CX Wed. 07/21/10 Message-ID: <991187.88575.qm@web180305.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Another fantastic day!!! There were so many whales in one area that counting and keeping track of the count and the locations was close to impossible. Officially, we reported: ??? 8 Blues including 2 cow/calf pairs; ??? 12 Humpbacks including one cow calf pair; ??? 750 Common Dolphins; ??? 30 Risso's Dolphins ????and too many other whales in sight at the same time to ??? ??? report. Garry Sullivan PID, Marty Flam and I were hard pressed to keep track?of it all. The 76 passengers were totally delighted (one tried to tip me but I gave it to Capt. Matt).? Capt Matt was assisted by Capt. Dave, along with reliable Jacques. Look for Bob Perry's pics on his website. All these years of whale watching and it still is exciting every time. ??? 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There were so many whales in one area that > counting and keeping track of the count and the locations was close to > impossible. Officially, we reported: > 8 Blues including 2 cow/calf pairs; > 12 Humpbacks including one cow calf pair; > 750 Common Dolphins; > 30 Risso's Dolphins > and too many other whales in sight at the same time to report. > > Garry Sullivan PID, Marty Flam and I were hard pressed to keep track of it > all. The 76 passengers were totally delighted (one tried to tip me but I > gave it to Capt. Matt). Capt Matt was assisted by Capt. Dave, along with > reliable Jacques. Look for Bob Perry's pics on his website. > > All these years of whale watching and it still is exciting every time. > > EUGENE RADDING > > _______________________________________________ > 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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URL: From mardanne at silcom.com Thu Jul 22 10:35:36 2010 From: mardanne at silcom.com (Marilyn Dannehower) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:35:36 -0700 Subject: [CINC] need Sub for tomorrow, Fri In-Reply-To: <8CCF7D98B3648F3-2370-38B2@webmail-m017.sysops.aol.com> References: <8CCF7D98B3648F3-2370-38B2@webmail-m017.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: I am on the CX for PID tomorrow, there is no need for a sub. Marilyn Dannehower please visit my websites: www.maddreams.net www.bridalcrystaldirect.com 805-967-8975 Toll Free: 1-800-524-2075 >>><))))))?>~~~>>><))))))?>~~~>>><))))))?>~~~>>><))))))?>~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ----- Original Message ----- From: thusone at aol.com To: channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 10:22 AM Subject: [CINC] need Sub for tomorrow, Fri Hi, I need a sub for my CX shift tomorrow, Friday July 23 10AM to 2:30PM, photo ID Can anybody help? 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Shirley -----Original Message----- From: Marilyn Dannehower To: channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org; thusone at aol.com Sent: Thu, Jul 22, 2010 10:35 am Subject: Re: [CINC] need Sub for tomorrow, Fri I am on the CX for PID tomorrow, there is no need for a sub. Marilyn Dannehower please visit my websites: www.maddreams.net www.bridalcrystaldirect.com 805-967-8975 Toll Free: 1-800-524-2075 ???<))))))?>~~~???<))))))?>~~~???<))))))?>~~~???<))))))?>~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ----- Original Message ----- From: thusone at aol.com To: channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 10:22 AM Subject: [CINC] need Sub for tomorrow, Fri Hi, I need a sub for my CX shift tomorrow, Friday July 23 10AM to 2:30PM, photo ID Can anybody help? 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I also spent some time trying to get a positive answer and have been unsuccessful. I am going to ask Dr. Rennie if he has the answer. Sincerely, Catherine French cfrench1366 at aol.com 805.815.3523 805.570.0432 mobile -----Original Message----- From: John Calambokidis To: 'Catherine French' Sent: Thu, Jul 22, 2010 3:26 pm Subject: RE: [CINC] Whale Breath article by Susan Scott I certainly cannot resolve this. I was involved in helping to sample whale breath many years ago and some of this was used in the results Tom Ford is mentions but like the writer of the article I thought some leaps were being made in interpreting those results. My own observations are that there is a great deal of variability in the odor associated with whale blows with some individuals clearly much smellier than others at least on some days. I never thought it smelled particularly like rotten fish or krill so was not convinced it came directly from that. I think it most likely is related to bacteria or in the cases of non-feeding whales, ketosis. Hope that helps. I will be down there next week so may see you on the water. John From: Catherine French [mailto:cfrench1366 at aol.com] Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 9:58 AM To: John Calambokidis Subject: Fwd: [CINC] Whale Breath article by Susan Scott Hi John: I wonder if you can clear something up for me or point me in the right direction. There seem to be different theories about the smell from a humpback whale's spout. I had been under the impression that it came from the oil that surrounds the blowholes, but his article suggests something else. It is best for us in the Channel Islands Naturalist Corps to have the correct answer and for all of us to say the same thing. This is a difficult challenge. I was doing some Internet research to try to find a definitive answer, but failed. Can you help? Hope all is well in your world. The blues and humpbacks are putting on a great show in the SB Channel to the delight of all. Thanks for you help. Sincerely, Catherine French cfrench1366 at aol.com 805.815.3523 805.570.0432 mobile -----Original Message----- From: Susie To: CINC Sent: Thu, Jul 22, 2010 7:53 am Subject: [CINC] Whale Breath article by Susan Scott Marine biologist Susan Scott writes the newspaper column, "Ocean Watch", for the Honolulu Star-Advertiser http://www.susanscott.net/OceanWatch2010/jul-19-10.html _______________________________________________ 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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One humpback entertained us with too many of the following to count: breaches, tail lobs, chin slaps, peck slaps, tail flukes and similar antics for over a half an hour when we had to head back home. Even Captain Mat was astounded! All wished we had had more time since the fun was still going on when we departed. 100 passengers from England, the Netherlands, Germany, Las Vegas, the Atlantic coast just to mention a few. Some had seen spouts in the distance before and one gentleman from the Netherlands researched the trip for three months hoping only to get a glimpse of a cetacean. His delight was shared by all. Thanks for CINCers Ginny Fischer and PID Carolyn McCleskey along with Capt. Mat, Dennis, Jacques and Bob Perry who promises some astounding photos. Deb Clark -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From davidchubb at cox.net Fri Jul 23 09:33:22 2010 From: davidchubb at cox.net (David Chubb) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:33:22 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Scientists question "the island rule" Message-ID: <4C49C452.70204@cox.net> (I tried to send this several days ago but I don't think it came through.) http://www.tau.ac.il/lifesci/departments/zoology/members/meiri/documents/Raiaetal2010onesizedoesnotfitall.pdf In this article (One size does not fit all: no evidence for an optimal body size on islands) found at the above link, scientists claim to have found evidence to refute the island rule, a theory that states species that do not face competition will evolve towards a standard optimum body size. The scientists use evidence to show this does not actually happen on islands. Although we have heard reasons for species on the Channel Islands evolving to be smaller or larger, I have never heard it attributed to this idea of evolving towards a standard optimal size. I did not see the island fox, island scrub-jay, or pygmy mammoth listed in this study. David Chubb From Tina.Johnson at noaa.gov Fri Jul 23 11:05:42 2010 From: Tina.Johnson at noaa.gov (Tina Johnson) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:05:42 -0700 Subject: [CINC] AUGUST OUTREACH-FAIR Message-ID: <4C49D9F6.5010001@noaa.gov> Hello, naturalists! Thanks to you we have almost all of the shifts covered for the fair, with the exception of the following. Please let me know if you are available for any of these shifts: Aug. 2 Mon, set up 10am-2pm Aug 5 Thurs, 4-9pm Aug 7 Sat, 11am-4pm Aug 13 Fri, 4-9pm Aug 15 Sun, 11am-4pm & 4-9pm The booth will operate similar to past years with volunteers from our partner organizations participating as well. Details to follow about picking up your admission ticket, etc. Best, Tina -- Tina Johnson Ventura County Field Office Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary 3550 S. 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The "island rule" that I am aware of is that small animals tend to become larger on islands (like the Island Scrub Jay) and large animals become smaller (pygmy mammoth and island fox). I believe that animals around the size of a rat are the dividing line between "big" and "small" animals. I have a copy of a paper on island body size. However, it is too big to e-mail. It was written by Ted Case and is in the 1978 journal Ecology. Kate Kate Faulkner Chief, Natural Resources Management Channel Islands National Park 1901 Spinnaker Drive Ventura, CA 93001 805-658-5709 (office) 805-804-0044 (cell) 805-658-5799 (fax) kate_faulkner at nps.gov Clare Fritzsche Volunteer Coordinator Assistant Channel Islands National Park 1901 Spinnaker Drive Ventura, CA 93001 (805) 658-5733 FAX: (805) 658-5799 Mary_C_Fritzsche at nps.gov (I tried to send this several days ago but I don't think it came through.) http://www.tau.ac.il/lifesci/departments/zoology/members/meiri/documents/Raiaetal2010onesizedoesnotfitall.pdf In this article (One size does not fit all: no evidence for an optimal body size on islands) found at the above link, scientists claim to have found evidence to refute the island rule, a theory that states species that do not face competition will evolve towards a standard optimum body size. The scientists use evidence to show this does not actually happen on islands. Although we have heard reasons for species on the Channel Islands evolving to be smaller or larger, I have never heard it attributed to this idea of evolving towards a standard optimal size. I did not see the island fox, island scrub-jay, or pygmy mammoth listed in this study. David Chubb From dvabbott at verizon.net Fri Jul 23 10:58:52 2010 From: dvabbott at verizon.net (Don Abbott) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:58:52 -0600 Subject: [CINC] Scientists question "the island rule" In-Reply-To: <4C49C452.70204@cox.net> Message-ID: Hi David, Thanks for the article. Like you, I have never seen anything written by CINP that even suggests that there might be an optimum size for species on the CIs. However, the article does support CINP's Official Interpretative Message we in the CINC pass along to CINP visitors. FYI the following article appeared in National Geographic Magazine a few years ago. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/10/1027_041027_homo_floresiensi s.html Some Food for Thought: I'm not an expert, but I suspect that limited island resources explains why the Japanese are smaller in statue than Europeans. My best, Don > From: David Chubb > Organization: Perfect Puppy Academy > Reply-To: > Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:33:22 -0700 > To: CINC Rain List Address > Subject: [CINC] Scientists question "the island rule" > > (I tried to send this several days ago but I don't think it came through.) > > http://www.tau.ac.il/lifesci/departments/zoology/members/meiri/documents/Raiae > tal2010onesizedoesnotfitall.pdf > > In this article (One size does not fit all: no evidence for an optimal > body size on islands) found at the above link, scientists claim to have > found evidence to refute the island rule, a theory that states species > that do not face competition will evolve towards a standard optimum body > size. The scientists use evidence to show this does not actually happen > on islands. > > Although we have heard reasons for species on the Channel Islands > evolving to be smaller or larger, I have never heard it attributed to > this idea of evolving towards a standard optimal size. I did not see the > island fox, island scrub-jay, or pygmy mammoth listed in this study. > > David Chubb > > > _______________________________________________ > Channel_islands_naturalist_corps mailing list > Channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org > http://www.rain.org/mailman/listinfo/channel_islands_naturalist_corps From mr.zalophus at gmail.com Fri Jul 23 17:08:59 2010 From: mr.zalophus at gmail.com (Mr Zalophus) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:08:59 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Beyond description CX 7/22 In-Reply-To: <990331.42460.qm@web63408.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <990331.42460.qm@web63408.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: As reported so aptly and concisely by Deb, the Humpback that ran amok and other shots are now posted for your viewing and educational enjoyment: http://www.condorexpressphotos.com/Other/2010-07-22-SB-Channel It's a tough job, but somebody has to do it... Best fishes and have a WHALE of a day. Bob Perry Condor Express On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Deborah Lee Clark < miramarragamuffin at yahoo.com> wrote: > 16 Humpbacks > 17 Blues > > Yesterday's trip aboard the Condor Express defies description-too many > superlatives to begin the list. The short of it is 16 Humpbacks and 17 > Blues up close and personal with many more in the distance. One humpback > entertained us with too many of the following to count: breaches, tail > lobs, chin slaps, peck slaps, tail flukes and similar antics for over a half > an hour when we had to head back home. Even Captain Mat was astounded! > All wished we had had more time since the fun was still going on when we > departed. > 100 passengers from England, the Netherlands, Germany, Las Vegas, the > Atlantic coast just to mention a few. Some had seen spouts in the distance > before and one gentleman from the Netherlands researched the trip for three > months hoping only to get a glimpse of a cetacean. His delight was shared > by all. > Thanks for CINCers Ginny Fischer and PID Carolyn McCleskey along with Capt. > Mat, Dennis, Jacques and Bob Perry who promises some astounding photos. > > 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... URL: From camccleskey at yahoo.com Sat Jul 24 12:21:01 2010 From: camccleskey at yahoo.com (Carolyn McCleskey) Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:21:01 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CINC] SFGate: Best of times for whale watchers off Monterey Message-ID: <95821.12797.qm@web33404.mail.mud.yahoo.com> And it's not just in the Santa Barbara Channel anymore ! Carolyn Subject: SFGate: Best of times for whale watchers off Monterey ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This article was sent to you by someone who found it on SFGate. The original article can be found on SFGate.com here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2010/07/11/SP781EBM1P.DT L --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, July 11, 2010 (SF Chronicle) Best of times for whale watchers off Monterey Tom Stienstra ???The big guys are back. Blue whales, the largest air-breathing animals to inhabit the Earth, have suddenly arrived in Monterey Bay in huge numbers. ???On an epic trip this past week, whale watchers on the Point Sur Clipper encountered 28 blues and 40 humpbacks. Along with more common grays and the minke, rare for this area, more than 200 whales were in the vicinity of the boat. ???"This was all on one trip, surrounded by whales, gazillions of them," said Jeannie Ridell, at the Monterey Bay Whale Watch Center. ???Nancy Black, a marine biologist who was aboard for the trip, said the whales have probably been attracted to the area by hordes of krill, the shrimp-like crustacean that is the linchpin of the marine food chain. Skipper Richard Ternullo reported that his electronic fish finder showed 200-foot-wide krill balls under the boat that extended for miles along the edge of the Monterey Submarine Canyon, about 7 miles from the harbor. ???"What's really incredible is how all these whales showed up overnight," Black noted in an e-mail. "We do know that blue whales have long-range communication. Their low-range frequency calls can travel hundreds of miles through the oceans. So it seems likely that the whales communicated to others about the food source here." ???Blue whales can grow to more than 100 feet long, more than double the length of a school bus, and approach 200 tons. They are an endangered species with a lifespan of 80 to 90 years. While humpbacks are spectacular with their jumps, pirouettes and tail salutes, Big Blue is simply awesome. ???Out of Monterey, Black said the group started seeing whales as soon as the boat left the harbor. Three minke whales were spotted in the flat, calm shallows just off the Monterey Aquarium. Shortly after, Ternullo sighted the first two blues and then, within 30 minutes, six more, and it was game-on. Suddenly, in a half-mile radius, 16 humpbacks and 10 blues appeared. ???Though the group aboard the boat saw 200 whales, Black said there were actually more outside the immediate vicinity. "There were so many blows (spouts) in the distance that we never got to, as well as reports from other boats covering over 20 miles along the coast." ???This could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. ???Info: Monterey Bay Whale Watch Center, (831) 375-4658, gowhales.com. Wildlife sightings ???Big Blue, a personal note: One of the milestone wildlife sightings of my life happened just off Half Moon Bay, peering down from my airplane to see two adult blues and a juvenile swimming on the surface in formation. The full lengths of their bodies were clearly visible, with occasional spouts and white water from their tails surging through the water. Big Blue can change how you feel about what is possible on the planet. ???Five goldens fledge: At Los Vaqueros Watershed, resources specialist Mary Shea, who tracks golden eagle nests, reported five golden eagles that hatched and survived this spring have flown off (fledged) to start their adult lives. Their wingspans now reach nearly 6 feet. The young goldens can be identified by large white splotches on the bottoms of their wings. Best hike for a sighting is the Eagle Ridge Trail (really), where they hunt abundant ground squirrels. ???Shed treasures: A lot of snakes, especially gopher snakes and rattlesnakes, are now shedding their skins at parks in Bay Area foothills. This is when you can often find a complete skin intact. For rattlers, that includes the bead-like shell capsules at the tail section that once encased their rattles (I came across one at Sunol Regional Wilderness). ???The rest of the story: Many reports arrived via e-mail last week about the mountain lion that was hit and killed by a vehicle along Interstate 280 in San Mateo County. The wayward lion probably emerged from the adjacent 23,000-acre Crystal Springs Watershed. ???Duck numbers good: North America's duck population is stable at 41 million, similar to last year and 21 percent above the long-term average, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which completed its annual aerial waterfowl census last week. ???$2,500 reward: Defenders of Wildlife announced a $2,500 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person who shot and killed a sea otter, a threatened species, near the Morro Strand Campground near Morro Bay in late June. Tips should go to Mona Iannelli, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, (310) 328-1516, Ext. 229. ???Lion in backyard: The California Department of Fish and Game reported last week that game wardens shot and killed a mountain lion they determined was a public danger when it was found in a tree in the backyard of a suburban neighborhood in San Luis Obispo. ???Crazy yarn of the week: J.R. Absher, who mines the Internet for this stuff, reports: As the story goes, two roommates in Anchorage were arguing over who owned a vehicle when one of them grabbed a set of mounted deer antlers off the wall and stabbed the other in the back and ankle. The victim wasn't seriously hurt, but the perp was charged with domestic felony assault. E-mail Tom Stienstra at tstienstra at sfchronicle.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 2010 SF Chronicle ------ End of Forwarded Message -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From WhaleBear at cs.com Sat Jul 24 23:56:06 2010 From: WhaleBear at cs.com (WhaleBear at cs.com) Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 02:56:06 EDT Subject: [CINC] Island Rule, Hobbits, and Island Biogeography Message-ID: <7d004.46b7e963.397d3a06@cs.com> The discussion of the "island rule" raises some interesting issues. For most of us over 40, the island rule, as Kate Faulkner states, is a general principle that small animals tend toward larger size on islands (less predation/competition being one reason) and larger animals tend toward smaller size (in part because of less food availability). While often true, this is a gross oversimplification and is subject to influence by a number of factors. A good starting point for reading about the topic is Carlquist (1974); although this reference is of some age, it is written by one of the great biologists of the twentieth century and has aged well. While you're at it, you may wish to read further about island biogeography in general. Another two references that have held their age well are Wilcox, writing in Power (1980) (brief summary of island biogeography with particular pertinence to reptiles) and MacArthur and Wilson (1967) (the classic in the field). More recently, Whittaker and Palacios (2007) and Losos and Ricklefs (2009) have built excellent volumes on this foundation. The "optimal body size" hypothesis, that large clades have a single, optimal body size, (although sometimes quoted as a rule, this is inappropriate) has been bandied about for some decades and still enjoys wide currency. It is questionable on both theoretical and technical grounds. Raia, Carotenuto, and Meiri (2010), quoted in an earlier posting, is merely the latest study to provide evidence against it. The article cited by Kate (Case, 1978) and a more recent article by Meiri, Simberloff, and Dayan (2005) offer further evidence against this hypothesis. The "Hobbit of Indonesia," or Homo floresiensis, is not a good fit for this discussion. The 2004 National Geographic press release quoted in a previous posting is both somewhat sensationalistic and grossly in error. It was initially believed that H. floresiensis was a descendent of H. erectus, and its small size was attributed to insular dwarfism. Ongoing analysis has shown the bulk of the complete H. floresiensis skeleton to be structurally much closer to the australopitecine lineage than to the genus Homo; only the cranial elements place it within the Homo lineage. It predates H. erectus. Interestingly, its small braincase may be a mild example in insular dwarfism; there is good evidence that the brain size of some insular mammals decreases to a degree greater than that predicted by standard scaling models. The subject of "the hobbit" is quite complex but is well-summarized in a recent Scientific American article by Wong (2009). The articles and texts I've cited are both interesting and should be accessible to a group with the intelligence of the Naturalist Corp. Good starting points in seeking them out would be the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, and any of the local universities. I will be positing shortly on the blow of whales and the possible effect of seismic activity on marine mammals. In August, I will begin a biweekly commentary on recent marine mammal articles in the literature. Be well, Chuck Rennie Literature cited: Carlquist, Sherwin (1974). Island Biogeography. New York: Columbia University Press, Case, Ted J (1978). A General Explanation for Insular Body Size Trends in Terrestrial Vertebrates. Ecology 59: 1-18. Losos,Jonathon B and R E Ricklefs (2009). The Theory of Island Biogeography Revisited. Princeton: Princeton University Press. MacArthur, Robert H and E O Wilson (1967). Island Biogeography. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Meiri, Shai, D Simberloff, and T Dayan (2005). Insular Carnivore Biogeography: Island Area and Mammalian Optimal Body Size. American Naturalist 165: 505-514. Raia, Pasquale, F Carotenuto, and S Meiri. (2010). One size does not fit all: no evidence for an optimal body size on islands. Global Ecology and Biogeography 19. Whittaker, Robert J and J M Fernandez-Palacios (2007). Island Biogeography: Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation. New York: Oxford University Press. Wong, Kate (2009). The Hobbits of Indonesia. Scientific American 301: 66-73. Wilcox, Bruce (1980). Species Number, Stability, and Equilibrium Status of Reptile Faunas on the California Islands. In The California Islands: Proceedings of a Mulitdisciplinary Symposium (ed Dennis Power) pp 551-564. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. From mr.zalophus at gmail.com Sun Jul 25 10:40:15 2010 From: mr.zalophus at gmail.com (Mr Zalophus) Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 10:40:15 -0700 Subject: [CINC] CX - July 24 Message-ID: Greetings Naturalists, Yesterday, Saturday, July 24, the Condor Express ran an 8-hour whale watch sponsored by the American Cetacean Society. Despite the fact that iit was mostly overcast and windy, krill was abundant on the surface and lunge feeding by Humpbacks and Blues was observed repeatedly. Common dolphins and Risso's dolphins were also watched. In the afternoon, a Basking Shark (est 14-feet) was followed as it gobbled krill along with the whales, birds and squid. Photos are now available for your viewing pleasure at: http://condorexpressphotos.smugmug.com/Other/2010-07-24-SB-Channel/ Best fishes and have a WHALE of a day. Bob Perry Condor Express -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We had 137 passengers including 52 from the Music Academy, together representing France, Germany, Italy, Croatia, Bulgaria, Italy, China, several US states and even Santa Barbara. We encountered the whales where Capt. Dave had his huge day yesterday with the ACS. Capt. Dave was hopeful for similar results but said it only demonstrates how fast the whales are moving West. Nonetheless, the passengers had a great time as did fellow Naturalist's Mary Bucholtz, Kevin Bailey-PID and yours truly. Bhrian -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From WhaleBear at cs.com Mon Jul 26 21:25:36 2010 From: WhaleBear at cs.com (WhaleBear at cs.com) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:25:36 EDT Subject: [CINC] Cetacean spouts Message-ID: One of the more impressive aspects of the viewing of cetaceans is the spout, which occurs during exhalation. Cetaceans have a truly gargantuan inspiration and exhalation that in blue whales can lead to a spout of over 9 meters. Humans exchange, on the average, 10-15% of their total lung capacity with each breath.(this is called tidal volume) Maximal voluntary minute ventilation (or the maximum amount of air that can be moved in and out in a minute) is in the range of 125-170 liters per minute. Cetaceans exchange 90-95% of their total lung capacity with each breath (which has obvious adaptive value for an animal that undertakes breathhold diving). A mature fin whale has an approximately 3000 liter tidal volume. Measurements are difficult to come by, but expiration/inspiration has been measured at anywhere from 0.8 to 4 seconds. This calculates to, if only one breath is taken in a minute, a maximum of 6000 liters per minute. While in the lungs, air is warmed to the animal's core temperature. It is then expelled under tremendous pressure. The rapid expulsion and rapid cooling as it contacts atmospheric temperature leads to condensation, which accounts for the spout. There are a multitude of observations that less forceful exhalations lead to a lesser (or no) spout, and there are similar observations that spouts tend to be less prominent in the tropics (but not always, as there are multiple variables involved), where the air is warmer. A second contribution to the spout comes from any water on top of the blowhole as the air is expelled.. Lungs also have a certain amount of moisture from transudation of plasma elements through the alveolar (air cell) wall. This liquid contains surfactants, which are phospholipids secreted by alveolar epithelial cells (Type II) and which function to lower alveolar surface tension and keep the alveoli from collapsing at end exhalation. Additionally, I don't think I've ever necropsied a cetacean that is completely free of at least small foci of pneumonia, which involves at least the microscopic collection of what is essentially pus. The alveolar moisture, the surfactants, and any purulence all contribute to giving "whale breath" its rather pungent odor. In the 1950s, two prominent British reseachers, Fraser and Purves, postulated the additional presence of a nitrogen-absorbing foam in the airways of cetaceans; this hypothesis has not held up. Ketone bodies are not involved, as they have a characteristic "sickly sweet" odor that I've never smelled in my almost 45 years of working with Cetacea. Although "whale breath" can smell rather fishy, the smell does not come from anything in the GI tract. Unlike humans, cetaceans have respiratory and digestive tracts that are completely separated (this is accomplished by extremely elongated laryngeal (arytenoid) cartilages). So the spout is composed of condensed air that is undergoing expulsion at pressure and rapid temperatire change, surfactant-containing moisture from the alveoli, and any purulence from small or large foci of pneumonia. It is the latter two that give the exhalation its odor. I will post on cetaceans and earthquakes (an earlier question) in the next few days. Cheers, Chuck Rennie Azul Research Co-op From j_bar_j at hotmail.com Mon Jul 26 13:31:31 2010 From: j_bar_j at hotmail.com (Joel E. Justin) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:31:31 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Whale Watch and PID Data Sheet Updates... Message-ID: All Whale Watch and PhotoID Naturalists, We have received the feedback from several of you suggesting we combine the Marine Mammal Sighting Log and the PhotoID Sighting Log. And guess what? We listened! I've attached the new logs for your reference. I have also provided a link to the updated PhotoID manual for you PID'ers. Changes are highlighted in yellow and are limited to the new log updates only. Non-PID'ers may find the column descriptions useful as well. Click the Download link in the upper-left corner of the webpage. http://cid-b7f1ea3e50eba624.office.live.com/self.aspx/CINC/PhotoID/PID%20Manual%202010a.pdf There are 2 sections on the log that are PhotoID only, so if there is no PhotoID naturalist onboard, you can leave these sections blank. The first is the first column - PID Code. The second is a group of columns under the heading IMAGE LOG - PHOTOID ONLY. Both are in white text with black background to make them stand out. If there is a PhotoID naturalist onboard, they should handle recording all sightings as well as the additional PhotoID notes. There are several other minor changes to the log, but I believe they are self explanatory. Of course, it anyone has any questions, don't hesitate to ask. Finally, while you should always find blank logs on the boat, it never hurts to take a couple of blank pages with you just in case. 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A young Southern Right Whale is seen jumping out of the water between Robben Island and Blouberg, off Cape Town, South Africa, on Sunday. The whale then landed on a yacht belonging to Ralph Mothes and Paloma Werner, breaking the steel mast. The whale swam away and the couple was not injured. (Courtesy of Paloma Werner) Share Back to slideshow navigation 2. Advertisement | ad info "We were watching the whale flipping its tail for about half an hour," said Cape Town Sailing Academy Administrator Paloma Werner, who was enjoying a Sunday sail with her boyfriend and sailing instructor, Ralph Mothes, before the whale breached and landed on their yacht. (Courtesy of Paloma Werner) Share Back to slideshow navigation 3. The whale destroyed the yacht's mast and damaged other parts of the boat as it thrashed about on the deck before going back into the water. The couple reported that the whale left some skin and blubber behind. (Courtesy of Paloma Werner) Share Back to slideshow navigation 4. Advertisement | ad info Werner and Mothes were able to sail the damaged boat back into Table Bay Harbor. (Courtesy of Paloma Werner) Share Back to slideshow navigation 5. The boat, with its collapsed mast, is seen docked in Table Bay Harbor. (Courtesy of Paloma Werner) Share Back to slideshow navigation 6. "Only that evening did we really think about it, and when we saw the photo (a tourist took of the whale breaching) in yesterday's paper did we realize we were lucky to be alive," Werner said. (Courtesy of Paloma Werner) Share Back to slideshow navigation 1. Editor's note: This image contains graphic content that some viewers may find disturbing. Click to view the image, or use the buttons above to navigate away. Share Back to slideshow navigation Related Advertisement | ad info 2. Editor's note: This image contains graphic content that some viewers may find disturbing. Click to view the image, or use the buttons above to navigate away. Advertisement | ad info Related Share Back to slideshow navigation 3. Editor's note: This image contains graphic content that some viewers may find disturbing. Click to view the image, or use the buttons above to navigate away. Share Back to slideshow navigation Related 4. Editor's note: This image contains graphic content that some viewers may find disturbing. Click to view the image, or use the buttons above to navigate away. Related Share Back to slideshow navigation by Jennifer Carlile msnbc.com updated 1 hour 19 minutes ago * Share * Print * Font: * + * - A couple were out sailing near South Africa's infamous Robben Island when a 40-ton whale breached and crash-landed on their yacht. "We were watching the whale flipping its tail for about half an hour," said Cape Town Sailing Academy Administrator Paloma Werner, who was enjoying a Sunday sail with her boyfriend and sailing instructor, Ralph Mothes. "It reached about 100 to 200 meters from us, then it disappeared under water and reappeared about 10 to 20 meters from the boat, but we didn't think we were on a collision course," she told msnbc.com. The young Southern Right Whale was longer than their 10-meter yacht - most likely between 11 and 14 meters - Werner said. "My boyfriend told me to go to the other side of the boat," she said, explaining that they thought it would dive under their vessel. "All I heard him say was 'Oh sh*&,' and I saw the whale come out of the water and crash against the mast of the boat. "I ducked behind the coach house and my boyfriend ducked behind the steering wheel and we saw the mast crashing toward us and the whale slip back into the water," she said. Story continues <> below More below <> Advertisement | ad info Sponsored links Marketplace "Bits of black whale blubber and barnacles," were strewn on the boat deck, but the couple did not see any blood in the water. "The whale might have gotten a scratch and a bump on its head, but it surfaced again, so we don't think it was harmed," she said. Adrenalin propelled Werner and Mothes through the next few minutes of checking the structure the boat for damage and leaks. Fortunately, the steel vessel did not take on any water and they were able to sail it back into Table Bay Harbor. "Only that evening did we really think about it, and when we saw the photo (taken by a tourist in a nearby boat) in yesterday's paper did we realize we were lucky to be alive," Werner said. "If it would have crashed into the cockpit it would have sunk the boat." 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Again, sorry for any confusion or duplicate effort on your part. http://cid-b7f1ea3e50eba624.office.live.com/browse.aspx/CINC/PhotoID?uc=4 >From this location, click on the file you wish to download, then click the Download link in the upper-left. After download is complete, use your browsers back button to select a different file. Below are the individual file links if you only want one: PID Manual: http://cid-b7f1ea3e50eba624.office.live.com/self.aspx/CINC/PhotoID/PID%20Manual%202010a.pdf Blank Data Sheet: http://cid-b7f1ea3e50eba624.office.live.com/self.aspx/CINC/PhotoID/PID%20Data%20Sheet%20Blank%202010.pdf Channel Islands Harbor Data Sheet: http://cid-b7f1ea3e50eba624.office.live.com/self.aspx/CINC/PhotoID/PID%20Data%20Sheet%20Channel%20Islands%20Harbor%202010.pdf Santa Barbara Harbor Data Sheet: http://cid-b7f1ea3e50eba624.office.live.com/self.aspx/CINC/PhotoID/PID%20Data%20Sheet%20Santa%20Barbara%20Harbor%202010.pdf Ventura Harbor Data Sheet: http://cid-b7f1ea3e50eba624.office.live.com/self.aspx/CINC/PhotoID/PID%20Data%20Sheet%20Ventura%20Harbor%202010.pdf Thanks, Joel... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From scott at scottcuzzo.com Tue Jul 27 19:50:28 2010 From: scott at scottcuzzo.com (Scott Cuzzo) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:50:28 -0500 Subject: [CINC] Video of whale landing on a sailboat.... Message-ID: <20100728025028.7ee17105@corp.kvcinc.com> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2010/07/26/VI2010072603785.html I think the video is of the same whale/boat accident in the news recently. Not great video quality, but short, after a 30 second commercial. Scott Cuzzo -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bhrian.resnik at gmail.com Tue Jul 27 19:52:32 2010 From: bhrian.resnik at gmail.com (bhrian resnik) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:52:32 -0700 Subject: [CINC] CX July 27 Message-ID: <4c4f9b66.0169640a.3290.00cd@mx.google.com> 6 Bottlenose 300 Commons 4 Humpbacks 2 Blues cow/calf 116 passengers enjoyed calm seas all the way to SMI. Two Humpbacks provided at least 30 min. of endless entertainment including rolling, lobtailing, pec-slapping and playing with kelp. Prior to departure Capt. Dave informed the passengers that painted cave could not be included due to the fact how far west we planned to travel. Fortunately, with such great sightings the passengers were very pleased. I had the pleasure of working with Deb Clark and Hal Altman-PID as well as Bob Perry. Bhrian -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Tina.Johnson at noaa.gov Wed Jul 28 12:53:28 2010 From: Tina.Johnson at noaa.gov (Tina Johnson) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:53:28 -0700 Subject: [CINC] OUTREACH-VENTURA CO. FAIR-Starts next Wednesday! Message-ID: <4C508AB8.90903@noaa.gov> Volunteers, this email is to let you know that we have 3 remaining shifts open at our booth for the Ventura County Fair: * August 7, Saturday 4-9pm * August 13, Friday 4-9pm * August 15, Sunday 11am-4pm I'll be emailing out information for this event soon, so please let me know if I can add your name to the list! You will be working alongside our partners from the California State Parks, Santa Monica National Rec Area and Channel Islands National Park! Attached is the updated sign-up sheet showing all of the shifts. And for your convenience, here is a link to fair entertainment in case you want to see anything the day you are volunteering! http://venturacountyfair.org/fair/download/2010_schedule.pdf http://venturacountyfair.org/pages/3447/ Thank you, ~Tina -- Tina Johnson Ventura County Field Office Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary 3550 S. 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FAIR-Starts next Wednesday! Volunteers, this email is to let you know that we have 3 remaining shifts open at our booth for the Ventura County Fair: * August 7, Saturday 4-9pm * August 13, Friday 4-9pm * August 15, Sunday 11am-4pm I'll be emailing out information for this event soon, so please let me know if I can add your name to the list! You will be working alongside our partners from the California State Parks, Santa Monica National Rec Area and Channel Islands National Park! Attached is the updated sign-up sheet showing all of the shifts. And for your convenience, here is a link to fair entertainment in case you want to see anything the day you are volunteering! http://venturacountyfair.org/fair/download/2010_schedule.pdf http://venturacountyfair.org/pages/3447/ Thank you, ~Tina -- Tina Johnson Ventura County Field Office Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary 3550 S. 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URL: From Shauna.Bingham at noaa.gov Wed Jul 28 16:27:13 2010 From: Shauna.Bingham at noaa.gov (Shauna.Bingham at noaa.gov) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:27:13 -0700 Subject: [CINC] FSTS Lecture Series August 10 & 11: Restoring Habitat for Seabirds of the Channel Islands Message-ID: <993bbe5926ed9acf.4c505a61@noaa.gov> For Immediate Release Yvonne Menard, Channel Islands National Park (805) 658-5725 Shauna Bingham, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (805) 382-6151 #102 Restoring Habitat for Seabirds on the Channel Islands The Channel Islands provide essential nesting and feeding grounds for approximately 99 percent of seabirds that nest in southern California. Restoring critical seabird habitat on the Channel Islands is the featured topic for the August ?From Shore to Sea? lecture by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) biologist Annie Little. Little will review the goals and status of three seabird restoration projects that are underway on Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz Islands. These restoration efforts involve improving nesting habitat, enhancing breeding populations with social attraction, and monitoring in order to benefit several seabird species. Little will also provide a glimpse into the lives of the elusive and rare seabirds such as the Xantus?s murrelet, ashy storm-petrel, and Cassin?s auklet that call the Channel Islands home. These seabird restoration projects are funded by a federal and state partnership dedicated to restoring natural resources harmed by DDTs and PCBs released into the marine environment. Little, who has worked for USFWS since 1996, also serves as the lead bird biologist for MSRP. In addition to working extensively on the Channel Islands, she has done fieldwork in other remote places, including Ecuador and the subantarctic island of Crozet. She has a biology degree from the University of California, San Diego. The ?From Shore to Sea? lecture series is jointly sponsored by Channel Islands National Park and Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary with 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, August 10, 2010, at Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, 113 Harbor Way in the Santa Barbara Harbor and Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 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... 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Ginny Fischer 805.451.4429 From ginnyafischer at me.com Wed Jul 28 18:17:55 2010 From: ginnyafischer at me.com (Ginny Fischer) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:17:55 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Have Sub Message-ID: Fortunately, Carol Celic has offered to cover my trip on the Condor, on August 20. May it be a whale of a day!! From icris at aol.com Wed Jul 28 18:48:36 2010 From: icris at aol.com (William Strojny (ICRIS, LLC)) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:48:36 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Bill Strojny Also needs a Sub for Friday , 30 July, on CX Message-ID: <4C50DDF4.9080404@aol.com> All I have a skin cancer stitches removal and Friday (30th) was the only near term time it could be performed. Now I see where Carolyn also needs a sub. Anyone else out there? Bill Strojny From bweinerth at hotmail.com Wed Jul 28 19:02:28 2010 From: bweinerth at hotmail.com (bill weinerth) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:02:28 +0000 Subject: [CINC] OUTREACH-VENTURA CO. FAIR-Starts next Wednesday! In-Reply-To: <000501cb2e9d$67795860$366c0920$@com> References: <4C508AB8.90903@noaa.gov>,<000501cb2e9d$67795860$366c0920$@com> Message-ID: If the 7th is still open I can cover it. Bill Weinerth From: landerson at islandpackers.com To: Tina.Johnson at noaa.gov; channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:39:48 -0700 Subject: Re: [CINC] OUTREACH-VENTURA CO. FAIR-Starts next Wednesday! I?ll take the 15th! Lisa From: channel_islands_naturalist_corps-bounces at rain.org [mailto:channel_islands_naturalist_corps-bounces at rain.org] On Behalf Of Tina Johnson Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 12:53 PM To: CINC Rainlist Subject: [CINC] OUTREACH-VENTURA CO. FAIR-Starts next Wednesday! Volunteers, this email is to let you know that we have 3 remaining shifts open at our booth for the Ventura County Fair: August 7, Saturday 4-9pm August 13, Friday 4-9pm August 15, Sunday 11am-4pm I'll be emailing out information for this event soon, so please let me know if I can add your name to the list! You will be working alongside our partners from the California State Parks, Santa Monica National Rec Area and Channel Islands National Park! Attached is the updated sign-up sheet showing all of the shifts. And for your convenience, here is a link to fair entertainment in case you want to see anything the day you are volunteering! http://venturacountyfair.org/fair/download/2010_schedule.pdf http://venturacountyfair.org/pages/3447/ Thank you, ~Tina -- Tina JohnsonVentura County Field OfficeChannel Islands National Marine Sanctuary3550 S. Harbor Blvd.Oxnard, CA 93035(805) 382-6149 x 100(805) 382-9791 Fax Tina.Johnson at noaa.govhttp://channelislands.noaa.gov _______________________________________________ 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 jjwinkel at cox.net Thu Jul 29 19:56:14 2010 From: jjwinkel at cox.net (Cubby Winkel) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:56:14 -0700 Subject: [CINC] CX 7/29/10 Message-ID: <02da01cb2f92$c629f400$527ddc00$@net> 7/29/2010 8 Blues 10 Humpbacks 75 Risso's Dolphins 1 Basking Shark We left the SB Harbor with heavy fog but within about thirty minutes the sun broke through for another outstanding day at sea. Can'n Mat went almost to the West end of San Miguel before we began seeing any Whales. The long trip was well worth the effort. First we saw three Humpies who did their best to entertain the 98 guests on board. Then Cap'n Mat moved to find Blues. He found several Blues who actually fluked multiple times. Finally, as it was about time to move on five more Humpies showed up along with a couple Blues. We we aver treated by this grouping. When Cap'n Mat announced he needed to return to the Harbor there was definitely an expression of regret by our guests. Cap'n Mat relented and spent a little more time with our entertainers. Oh, yes, I forgot to talk about the spectacular sighting of the Basking Shark. It actually approached the port side of the boat and went under the boat. Quite a sight! Crew: Captain Mat, Captain Jacques & Brooke Naturalists: Gary Sullivan, Gary Delanoye & Cubby Winkel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kat at recycledgoods.com Thu Jul 29 21:13:58 2010 From: kat at recycledgoods.com (Kathyrn Wasden) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:13:58 -0700 Subject: [CINC] ipco 28th and SCI 29th Message-ID: <00ab01cb2f9d$a2543670$e6fca350$@com> It has been a busy few days for me! I had the opportunity to volunteer at the central valley, so I took up the offer of hard work in exchange for a view of all the old historical pictures in my mind, but now in person. Ken Owens was assisting a group of students from Santa Barbara area and one actually had to be air lifted out (but is fine), the last day our volunteer group was dropped off at Prisoners' Harbor and two of us did the hike over to Pelican Bay, it was so much fun to see all these places and buildings in person. I was a kid in a candy shop. Yesterday the IPCO three hour boat ride out to San Miguel was certainly worth the long trip! Sunny skies and a little wind chop. Truly. I have never seen so many whales. There were too many to count so with the help of IPCO's Steve we estimated 50 in a one mile radius and there were so many many more in the beyond. The most predominate behavior was lunge feeding. Lola and I were busy on the three hour ride out.but we didn't have to talk much as the whales took over. Cpt. Anthony was also aboard and he confirms what a spectacular day we had. Cpt. Mike zipped us over close to the beaches of San Miguel and we had very close looks at the elephant seals mixed with sea lions. To top off this rare day, all the way into painted cave.and it was very colorful! A quick note here: 5 guest came on the recommendation of naturalists who talked to passengers about our channel when they were in the bays of Mexico! Today I was booked for visitor center but ended up leading the second hike up to Cavern Point as they was no way Don could get back in time from the first hike. I felt a bit obligated to spend the rest of the time in the visitor center area since my hike took me away and I was so glad to have some awesome conversations with Tom Gherini. He was filled with wonderful stories of his past 50 years on the island. I had a second trip to the candy shop. Mega pod of common dolphin took us home along with Don G.'s funny travel stories and a few tired passenger questions. It was a lovely few days. Kat. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Tina.Johnson at noaa.gov Fri Jul 30 10:26:54 2010 From: Tina.Johnson at noaa.gov (Tina Johnson) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:26:54 -0700 Subject: [CINC] CX 7/29/10 In-Reply-To: <02da01cb2f92$c629f400$527ddc00$@net> References: <02da01cb2f92$c629f400$527ddc00$@net> Message-ID: <4C530B5E.7020409@noaa.gov> Hi all, this is just a reminder to report any basking shark sightings per Shauna's email (below). I have seen a couple of reports about sightings recently, and it is important to get this data to our research coordinator, Steve, in the Santa Barbara office. Thank you! :-) Tina *July 12, 2010* Dear CINC Volunteers: Please help to spread the word that Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary is interested in receiving, as real time as possible, reports regarding basking shark sightings in the Santa Barbara Channel. Since basking shark sightings are rare, researchers from NOAA Fisheries have supplied the sanctuary research department with special basking shark tags so that we are able to respond to any reports in our region. *If you have a basking shark sighting to report:* please be contact *Dr. Steve Katz, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Research Coordinator, at: Steve.Katz at oaa.gov , or 805-963-3238 ext. 12*, with the date, time, and location of the basking shark (and direction of travel if that is obvious). For more information about the basking shark tagging project please visit: http://swfsc.noaa.gov/textblock.aspx?Division=FRD&id=16327 The sanctuary is also working with the Monterey Bay Aquarium and Cal State Long Beach on white shark tagging in the Channel. For more information about the white shark tagging research: please visit http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/whiteshark.aspx http://www.csulb.edu/web/labs/sharklab/research/index.shtml Let me know if you have any questions and thank you for your support in passing the word around to the boat captains and to any others you know that spend a lot of time on the water. --Shauna Cubby Winkel wrote: > > 7/29/2010 > > > > 8 Blues > > 10 Humpbacks > > 75 Risso's Dolphins > > 1 Basking Shark > > > > We left the SB Harbor with heavy fog but within about thirty minutes > the sun broke through for another outstanding day at sea. Can'n Mat > went almost to the West end of San Miguel before we began seeing any > Whales. The long trip was well worth the effort. First we saw three > Humpies who did their best to entertain the 98 guests on board. Then > Cap'n Mat moved to find Blues. He found several Blues who actually > fluked multiple times. Finally, as it was about time to move on five > more Humpies showed up along with a couple Blues. We we aver treated > by this grouping. When Cap'n Mat announced he needed to return to > the Harbor there was definitely an expression of regret by our > guests. Cap'n Mat relented and spent a little more time with our > entertainers. Oh, yes, I forgot to talk about the spectacular > sighting of the Basking Shark. It actually approached the port side > of the boat and went under the boat. Quite a sight! > > > > Crew: Captain Mat, Captain Jacques & Brooke > > > > Naturalists: Gary Sullivan, Gary Delanoye & Cubby Winkel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Channel_islands_naturalist_corps mailing list > Channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org > http://www.rain.org/mailman/listinfo/channel_islands_naturalist_corps > -- Tina Johnson Ventura County Field Office Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary 3550 S. Harbor Blvd. 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: