Slater and Katlyn are holding down the fort in Monterey while Eric is on vacation. We caught up on recent whale reports including Slater's recent trip on the whale entanglement response this week. Loads of blue whales have shown up this week south of Monterey!

We answered a question from one of our instagram followers. Katlyn also reported in on the law we referenced when we talked about Long Gone Wild called the Orca Welfare and Safety Act for the state of California. 

Big thank you to everyone that has been following along with us! We appreciate all your messages, listens, downloads, follows and patreon contributions! 

We are back after a two week hiatus! We have been pretty busy with work and had a hard time coordinating our schedules. 

We covered a lot of topics and sighting reports to catch up from where we left off in Episode 34. We took a whale quiz sent to us from one of our followers. We also talked about fossils, mola species, new beaked whale species, a ship strike incident in the port of San Francisco, marine debris and an update on the warm water blob event happening off shore.

SPOILER ALERT! We talk about the new film Sea Of Shadows for most of this episode. If you don't want us to ruin some of the suspense, watch the film before you listen to this episode. We also gave our usual whale report from Monterey. Eric also had some info on an internship opportunity with Cascadia Research Collective. 

We are late this week because Eric and Katlyn have been slammed with work! August is the busiest month in Monterey for whale watching and we have had such nice weather that all of our trips have been getting out. We had a few pieces of humpback whale news this week from California and Oregon. 

Weather and whale watching has been incredible in Monterey this week. Get out on the water if you can! (anywhere really)

We attempted our first round of marine mammal trivia. Please send us more questions so Slater can quiz us!

We also gave an updated whale report and some tips on what to do when you see an entangled whale in the US.

This week we talked about the movie Long Gone Wild that just came out this month. We all watched it together last week.

We also gave a recent sightings report from Monterey. 

Next week Slater wants to quiz Eric and Katlyn on whale trivia so send him some questions on instagram!

Whale action is ramping up in a big way this week in Monterey! We all had great trips this last week. 

We had several questions about dolphins from our followers on instagram. Eric also found a cool paper about bottlenose dolphins and melon headed whales. 

Slater is back from his awesome trip up in the San Juan Islands. He had excellent weather conditions and excellent sightings! Eric and Katlyn had great trips from Monterey as well. Yes, Eric saw a leatherback sea turtle while Katlyn was out on the water... and she did not get to see it. :(

We answered a few questions from our instagram followers this week! We covered some topics about marine resources and news, hydrophones and our heroes in our field. We also talked about happywhale.com.

We covered a little bit of everything in this episode! The day we recorded this episode was International Vaquita Day. The new film about the plight of the vaquita called Sea of Shadows premiers world wide on July 12th. 

We gave a recent update of whale watching in Monterey Bay and some updates from San Juan Islands. The day this episode airs, Slater will be touching down in the Pacific Northwest! Sounds like all the Southern Residents might be back in the Salish Sea.

We also talked about some recent bird sightings in the harbor and the bay. We answered a question about the role food availability plays in whale migration from one of our listeners toward the end of the episode. 

If you have listening to all the episodes up to this point, comment on our instagram post with you favorite species of whale! @whalenerds

This week we talked about the 2018 whale entanglement report from NOAA in addition to other whale news. We talked about beluga whales being moved to a whale sanctuary in Iceland and the recent coverage of the narluga skull that was in the news. 

We also gave an updated trip report from Monterey Bay - lots of humpbacks and dolphins! 

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