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Clans of the Winged Whale
Shelley Gill is the Co-director of Winged Whale Research and has worked in Prince William Sound for the last 25 years as a principal and co-investigator studying humpback whales. She is an educator who has lectured to over 2 million students on whale habitatand behavior and other subjects at over 4,000 schools nationwide. Gill has written over 20 bestselling and award-winning natural history books for children. She works as a naturalist, guest lecturer, literacy consultant, and whale detective. In earlier years, sheworked as a reporter, columnist, editor, and newspaper publisher for the Frontiersman, Homer News, and Alaska Magazine, and was the fifth woman to run the Iditarod Race to Nome. She is also a pretty good mechanic and a great cook. She lives in Homer and hasan adult daughter. http://www.wingedwhaleresearch.org
Olga von Ziegesar is the full-time Principal Investigator and Co-director of Winged Whale Research. She first came to Alaska on a kayak expedition in the early ‘70s, and Prince William Sound and the whales captivated her. For the past 40 years, Olga has been the principal investigator and project manager for the humpback whale census and has engaged in data collection and reporting of killer whale sightings, for Prince William Sound and Kachemak Bay. She graduated from the University of California Santa Cruz with a degree in Natural History and Environmental Studies and conducted an assessment of humpback and killer whales after the Exxon Valdez oil spill for the National Marine Mammal Lab, NMFS/NOAA. Olga fished commercially for salmon and herring in PrinceWilliam Sound. She raised two children in Homer where she still lives on a small farm.http://www.wingedwhaleresearch.org/
Their website - http://www.wingedwhaleresearch.org/
The slides that were used in the presentation are available here - http://akwebguy.com/photos/20201115_0900 as web pages. You can navigate from slide to slide by clicking on the page or by using your arrow keys.
Permission has been granted to use these photos and graphics copyrighted by Shelley Gill and Olga von Ziegesar in connection with private listening to this podcast only, and not for reproduction or other distribution. All other rights are reserved. For any further rights or permissions, contact Shelley Gill and Olga von Ziegesar at [email protected] or Shelley Gill at [email protected].
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Shelley Gill is the Co-director of Winged Whale Research and has worked in Prince William Sound for the last 25 years as a principal and co-investigator studying humpback whales. She is an educator who has lectured to over 2 million students on whale habitatand behavior and other subjects at over 4,000 schools nationwide. Gill has written over 20 bestselling and award-winning natural history books for children. She works as a naturalist, guest lecturer, literacy consultant, and whale detective. In earlier years, sheworked as a reporter, columnist, editor, and newspaper publisher for the Frontiersman, Homer News, and Alaska Magazine, and was the fifth woman to run the Iditarod Race to Nome. She is also a pretty good mechanic and a great cook. She lives in Homer and hasan adult daughter. http://www.wingedwhaleresearch.org
Olga von Ziegesar is the full-time Principal Investigator and Co-director of Winged Whale Research. She first came to Alaska on a kayak expedition in the early ‘70s, and Prince William Sound and the whales captivated her. For the past 40 years, Olga has been the principal investigator and project manager for the humpback whale census and has engaged in data collection and reporting of killer whale sightings, for Prince William Sound and Kachemak Bay. She graduated from the University of California Santa Cruz with a degree in Natural History and Environmental Studies and conducted an assessment of humpback and killer whales after the Exxon Valdez oil spill for the National Marine Mammal Lab, NMFS/NOAA. Olga fished commercially for salmon and herring in PrinceWilliam Sound. She raised two children in Homer where she still lives on a small farm.http://www.wingedwhaleresearch.org/
Their website - http://www.wingedwhaleresearch.org/
The slides that were used in the presentation are available here - http://akwebguy.com/photos/20201115_0900 as web pages. You can navigate from slide to slide by clicking on the page or by using your arrow keys.
Permission has been granted to use these photos and graphics copyrighted by Shelley Gill and Olga von Ziegesar in connection with private listening to this podcast only, and not for reproduction or other distribution. All other rights are reserved. For any further rights or permissions, contact Shelley Gill and Olga von Ziegesar at [email protected] or Shelley Gill at [email protected].