SKABC – The Sea Kayak Association of BC – Vancouver-based Kayak Club

SKABC welcomed Jackie Hildering as guest speaker on humpback whales for our January club meeting. Here is a message from her with links she referenced in her presentation.

Thank you again so much for your interest and enthusiasm for “The Return of Giants”.

The survey link I referenced is here www.surveymonkey.com/r/merswebinarexperience It addresses information provided in the presentation and at www.SeeABlowGoSlow.org. The survey takes an average of 10 minutes and helps us know the value of the presentations and in applying for grants for further education. As mentioned, we have provided a 15% discount code for Whale Warning Flags at the end of the survey.

What follows at the end of this message, after my signature, are links that may be of further use.

Please do follow us on social media and share content to educate and engage others.

www.facebook.com/mersocietybc

www.instagram.com/mersociety

Thank you for your time and shared concern for the welfare of marine wildlife, and vessel operators.

Warm wishes,

Jackie

Jackie Hildering
Education / Communications Director and Humpback Researcher
Marine Education and Research Society
www.mersociety.org

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Links / information that may be of further use:

To help with positioning “See a Blow? Go Slow!” signs, please see the questionnaire at https://mersociety.org/sponsorsign

Summary of the Canadian Marine Mammal Regulations, Emergency Measures for the Southern Resident Orca and best practices: www.SeeABlowGoSlow.org.

MERS video “How to Save a Whale”: www.HowToSaveAWhale.org

Our filmed presentations, includes “Boaters and Marine Mammals - Safety and Stewardship”, note that we use a system of people requesting presentations by filling in a form so we have a better idea of what audience is being reached. www.mersociety.org/presentations

Sightings related:

To download the BC Cetacean Sightings WhaleReport app: https://wildwhales.org/sightings. For information on how this interfaces with the “Whale Report Alert System”: https://wildwhales.org/wras

To share photos (taken outside 200 m) with us for the purposes of identifying individual whales or sightings of branded sea lions, please see www.mersociety.org/data

Ocean Store

Our Ocean Store with a direct link to the Whale Warning Flag and sustainable gift ideas: www.mersociety.org/oceanstore

Further ways to help

Includes Humpback Whale sponsorship and donations: www.mersociety.org/howtohelp

Links relevant to questions resulting from Monday's presentation

The Marine Detective on social media:
www.facebook.com/TheMarineDetective

www.instagram.com/themarinedetective

Research papers:

Our MERS trap-feeding research (novel feeding strategy): https://mersociety.wordpress.com/2018/11/03/trap-feeding-a-new-humpback-feeding-strategy/

Dr. John Ford’s paper “Fight or flight: antipredator strategies of baleen whales” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2907.2008.00118.x

SKABC Member Mike McHolm is very proud to announce that his company Westholme Graphics has produced a Sea Kayak themed Calendar for 2021. The Calendar features paintings by his father David McHolm. It's a collaboration of images from Mike's kayaking trips (GoPro screen shots and iPhone images) and David's painted interpretation of them.

Printed Wall Calendars, original 14" h x 18" w Oil Paintings and 28" h x 36" w x 1" d or custom sized Canvas Mounted Prints are available. You can view a low resolution pdf version of the Wall Calendar here: http://www.westholme.ca/Westholme-2021_Calendar.pdf. Visit http://www.westholme.ca if you wish to contact Mike.