Marine mammals are fantastic, but in order to keep track of them and make sure they’re safe we need to know when people see them. Enter: Salma, the previous GIS Specialist and Sightings Network Coordinator for The Whale Museum. Get to learn more about the work that goes into keeping this 40+ year old sightings database alive and shifts in the data and demographics happening today.

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The Whale Museum

https://whalemuseum.org/

Doris Duke Conservation Scholars

(Applications open until Feb 1st)

http://uwconservationscholars.org/

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Salma’s Twitter

@stabdelraheem

https://twitter.com/stabdelraheem

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⏰TIMESTAMPS⏰

0:00  Intro to Salma

4:11 Creating the GIS Coordinator position

10:31 Orca Master Report

19:43  Sighting and alert systems across boarders

31:37 Recognizing observer input

42:48  Dynamic changes in the field, TWM and SJI

52:22 Whale politics and Databases

57:27 The Future for Salma and Sightings Data

1:04:18 Closing out

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