The end of our winter work field season with @oceanwise is quickly approaching. It’s been another great season filled with successes, challenges, and whales! The overarching goal of this project is to help fill in knowledge gaps in the recovery strategies of local whale populations. Obviously, they are gaps for a reason! Shorter days, cold temperatures, tough sea conditions, and a lower amount of sightings reports all make working in the winter more difficult but a challenge I’m up for! I wanted specifically thank @ororo.wear for sponsoring our team this year with their heated apparel. It makes an unbelievable difference on those long days on the top deck looking for whales or the opportunity to collect samples from whales like the scale sample in the third photo. If you spend a lot of time outside in cold temperatures, you have to check out their gear! #killerwhale #orca #whale #whaleresearch #science #pnw #pacificnorthwest #beautifulbritishcolumbia