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American Cetacean Society - Puget Sound

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With an ecosystem approach, ACS/PS protects whales, dolphins, porpoises, and their habitats through public education, research grants, and conservation actions.

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American Cetacean Society - Puget Sound @acs-ps.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Second performance of the Orca Cantata rods afternoon at 4pm, with panel discussion on Southern Resident Orcas at 3pm. Get your tickets here: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
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Earth Day Orca Cantata
Join the Puget Sound Chapter of the American Cetacean Society on April 24th and 26th at Phinney Ridge Lutheran Church for special Earth Day gatherings bringing together music, storytelling, and conver...
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American Cetacean Society - Puget Sound @acs-ps.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
6PPD-quinone needs to be removed from tire production worldwide. 25 years ago, Dr. Peter Ross alerted us to the high toxic POP load orcas we carrying, and it's time we listen to him again about the deadly effects of 6PPD-q on salmon. vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...
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Opinion: When will Ottawa act to remove salmon-killing chemical from vehicle tires?
Opinion: When rain washes tire particles from roads into B.C. streams, this toxic compound enters salmon habitats, impacting coho salmon.
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American Cetacean Society - Puget Sound @acs-ps.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Join us on Tuesday, March 3rd at 7:30pm for our next Puget Sound Chapter meeting when our guest speaker will be Howard Garrett, co-founder of the Orca Network. Howard's talk is entitled "Orcas as Relational Beings". RSVP here: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
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Orcas as Relational Beings
Join the Puget Sound Chapter of the American Cetacean Society in Room 6 of the Phinney Neighborhood Center for our March chapter meeting and a thought provoking evening with Orca Network founder, Howa...
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American Cetacean Society - Puget Sound @acs-ps.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Join us for an open house on Tues, Feb 3! You'll be able to meet our board members and enjoying light refreshments. We'd love to see you, and hear your questions and comments about what ACS Puget Sound Chapter means to you. Please RSVP at the link below. www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket... 📷 Joe Olson
Mark and Maya Sears collecting surface samples of prey leftovers from J Pod
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The Daily of the University of Washington @thedailyuw.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
OPINION: To save Washington’s orcas from extinction, the Snake River dams have to go (via @amolson.bsky.social ) www.dailyuw.com/opinion/to-s...
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To save Washington’s orcas from extinction, the Snake River dams have to go
To save the Southern Residents, we will need to put organized, consistent pressure on our elected representatives.
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American Cetacean Society - Puget Sound @acs-ps.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Join us at our next chapter meeting for an evening dedicated to Southern Resident Orca advocacy by our guest speakers, sisters Emma and Annie Stafki, who will screen their award winning documentary "Echos of the Sound". In-person-only RSVP using the following link: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
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Two Girls Take On The World to Help Southern Resident Orcas
Join the Puget Sound Chapter of the American Cetacean Society in Room 6 of the Phinney Neighborhood Center for our January chapter meeting and an evening dedicated to Southern Resident Orca advocacy b...
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Lars Bejder @lbejder1971.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Published! Gough et al: Daily energetic expenditure and energy consumption of short-finned pilot whales. Drones+tags+diet reveal pilot whales need ~142 squid/day @marinemammalogy.bsky.social @jexpbiol.bsky.social @acs-ps.bsky.social @uhmanoa.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...
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Dr Luis Huckstadt @luishuckstadt.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Bird Flu Ravaged the World’s Largest Elephant Seal Population, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/s...
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Bird Flu Ravaged the World’s Largest Elephant Seal Population, Study Finds
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jehiko.bsky.social @jehiko.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Our new paper is out: "Repeated narwhal interactions with moorings challenge safety assumptions of passive acoustic monitoring in the Arctic" www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Repeated narwhal interactions with moorings challenge safety assumptions of passive acoustic monitoring in the Arctic - Communications Biology
Passive acoustic monitoring may inadvertently affect narwhal behavior. Field observations of narwhals in Greenland show they repeatedly interact with seafloor moorings, possibly mistaking them for foo...
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American Cetacean Society - Puget Sound @acs-ps.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
A research project for which we're helping to facilitate the funding.
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American Cetacean Society - Puget Sound @acs-ps.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Join us for our next chapter meeting on Tuesday November 4 at 7:30pm at the Phinney Neighborhood Center. Joe Gaydos of SeaDoc Society will be our guest speaker. RSVP at www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
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Health Assessments and Electronic Medical Records: Tools for Saving Southern Resident Killer Whales
Join the Puget Sound Chapter of the American Cetacean Society in Room 6 of the Phinney Neighborhood Center for our November chapter meeting, where our guest speaker will be Joe Gaydos from the SeaDoc ...
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American Cetacean Society - Puget Sound @acs-ps.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Join us on June 11 for our last chapter meeting until October. This month, Casey Mclean of SR3 will be presenting "On the Frontlines: Marine Mammal Response and Health Surveillance in a Changing Ocean". Please RSVP here: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
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American Cetacean Society - Puget Sound @acs-ps.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Join us, Orca Nexus, and Tree Action Seattle on Friday June 6th at 7pm for Health Habitats & Homes: Orcas, Trees, and People. Lynne Barre will be giving her first formal public talk since retiring from NOAA on April 30th. See link for details and to reserve tickets. www.zeffy.com/ticketing/he...
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American Cetacean Society - Puget Sound @acs-ps.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Join us, Orca Nexus, and Tree Action Seattle at 7400 Woodlawn on June 6th to learn how urban trees benefit both human and Southern Resident Killer Whale health. More details and RSVP here: www.zeffy.com/ticketing/he...
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Healthy Habitats & Homes: Orcas, Trees, and People
Join the Puget Sound chapter of the American Cetacean Society, Orca Nexus, and Tree Action Seattle at 7400 Woodlawn on June 6th along with our guest speakers, Geof Donovan and Lynne Barre, to learn ab...
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American Cetacean Society - Puget Sound @acs-ps.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
What a fun and interesting talk Fred Sharpe and Rachel Meade treated us to on April 1st! "Humpback Whales: Inscrutable Spouts and the Search for Life in the Universe". If you attended our meeting, let us know what you thought.
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American Cetacean Society - Puget Sound @acs-ps.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Our next chapter meeting and speaker event will be on Tuesday, April 1st at 7:30pm at the Phinney Neighborhood Center. We hope you can join us along with Dr. Fred Sharpe and Rachel Meade talking about Humpback Whale Communication and SETI. RSVP using the link below. www.zeffy.com/ticketing/fr...
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Dr. Fred Sharpe & Rachel Meade - "Spouting Off: Humpback Whales as Extraterrestrial Analogues - Humpbacks Whales, Fermi's Paradox and Curious Aliens - Inscrutable Spouts & the Search for Life in the U...
Join us in Room 5 at the Phinney Neighborhood Center along with our guest speakers, Dr. Fred Sharp and Rachel Meade, for a talk that'll be out of this world, and we're not fooling!        The Milky Wa...
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American Cetacean Society - Puget Sound @acs-ps.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Please read this entry in the Federal Register and follow the instructions to leave your comments with the Council on Environmental Quality NOT to implement the rule removing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) from federal regulations! This essentially guts the EPA. Also, call your reps!
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Removal of National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations
This interim final rule removes the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) from the Code of Federal Regulations. In addition, this...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
One of the people fired from NOAA today is the director of the Ocean Acidification Program. That program also leads the U.S. government's effort on marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR). The destruction of American science is incomprehensible.
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Home - NOAA Ocean Acidification Program
NOAA's Ocean Acidification Program prepares us for the impacts of ocean acidification through research and interdisciplinary partnerships.
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American Cetacean Society - Puget Sound @acs-ps.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Please call your congressional representative and tell them to protect the Marine Mammal Protection Act. Calling and leaving a voice message or taking with their staff is way more effective than writing.
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American Cetacean Society - Puget Sound @acs-ps.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Join us at the Phinney Neighborhood Center at 7:30pm on Monday, March 3rd for our first speaker event of 2025. You can RSVP for the talk at the link below. These events are in-person only. www.zeffy.com/ticketing/dr...
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Dr. Anais Remili - "You Are What You Eat: Blubber Holds Clues to Killer Whale Diets … and Toxic Threats"
Join us in Room 6 at the Phinney Neighborhood Center along with our guest speaker, Dr. Anais Remili, for an in-depth look at how molecular ecology is transforming our understanding of killer whale die...
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American Cetacean Society - Puget Sound @acs-ps.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
@king5news.com.web.brid.gy story about J62 featuring an interview with ACS-PS President Joe Olson and @orcanetwork.bsky.social founder Howard Garrett aired last night. You can read the story here. www.king5.com/article/tech...
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Welcome J62: A new female orca joins the Southern Resident family
Orcas advocates got positive news this month, as the J pod's new calf was spotted in good health.
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American Cetacean Society - Puget Sound @acs-ps.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Thank you to everyone who attended our "Coextinction" event on Saturday! Please continue to call your senators and tell them to breach the lower four Snake River dams.
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American Cetacean Society - Puget Sound @acs-ps.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Reminder: Our free screening of Coextinction is TOMORROW, January 25th, from 6 to 8:30 pm (doors at 5:30) at UW Kane Hall, Room 120. If you RSVP’d, please download your ticket with QR code from the email. You will check-in with the QR code. If you reserved multiple tickets, please have all QR codes.
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 07/01/2025
#Whaling left #NorthAtlantic #rightwhales functionally #extinct. #WHOI scientist Michael Moore says modern-day threats are just as dangerous as harpoons. 📲Dive into the issues with @nytimes.com: go.whoi.edu/NYT-Moore... 📸 NOAA NMFS permit 2137 © WHOI
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American Cetacean Society - Puget Sound @acs-ps.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Very sad news to report about the Southern Residents. We were hopeful that J61 would survive despite cautious warnings by NOAA. Fortunately, there is another new calf designated J62 yesterday. Nevertheless, the loss of J61 is very tragic. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Mother orca Tahlequah once again carrying her dead calf
Tahlequah is once again carrying a dead calf, researchers said, as she did in 2018 in a 17-day, 1,000-mile tour that shocked the region and world.
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American Cetacean Society - Puget Sound @acs-ps.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Hello World! Our new Whale Friendly Yard signs will be available to give away soon!
Whale Friendly Yard sign.
No to fertilizers, pesticides or herbicides!
Yes to Native & pollinator-friendly plants!
No Toxic Run-off!
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