Humpbacks are heading our way!
The Humpback Whales are starting to come through #geographebay for the 2022 migration season! We brought our incredible volunteer citizen scientists together at a pre-season get together to chat about […]
The Humpback Whales are starting to come through #geographebay for the 2022 migration season! We brought our incredible volunteer citizen scientists together at a pre-season get together to chat about […]
We are matching photographs of individual southern right whales in the 1990’s and early 2000’s in the southwest! Since we began regular monitoring in 2004, we have noted that southern […]
Did you know that we are also involved in whale research projects across the south-west? The SouWEST project began in 2010, bringing together the expertise of whale researchers working in […]
Researchers from Curtin University’s Centre for Marine Science and Technology (CMST) have just published a new paper on pygmy blue whale vocalizations using data from the SouWEST project! The paper […]
The South West Catchments Council (SWCC) will be hosting the 3rd Biennial “South West Marine Conference” on Thursday 9th May 2013. SouWEST will be presenting the Geographe Bay project and […]
SouWEST has reached a social media milestone this week, as it hit 100 likes on Facebook! We are delighted that so many people out there are interested in our work, […]
Our first video showing the migration of humpback and blue whales through Geographe Bay! View it now, either on YouTube or by clicking below: Dr Chandra Salgado Kent (CMST, Curtin […]
The Australian Government has released a draft copy of the new conservation management plan for blue whales. The plan covers aspects of blue whale biology, current legal protection, the possible […]
Angela Recalde-Salas has just returned from Australia’s first ever Student Conference on Conservation Science, held in Brisbane by the Environmental Decisions Group (EDG) at the University of Queensland. She has […]
The ability to recognise individual whales within a population and track them over a period of time can provide important information for the management of a species. But just how […]