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Letter Fromthepresident ACS ANNUALImportant APPEAL Page 15 Spyhopper ACS NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 2017 LETTER FROMTHEPRESIDENT Dear ACS Members, appreciate the many people who have Let me begin by thanking all of you who contributed to, and passionately worked have supported the American Cetacean for, our organization, from its beginnings Society throughout its fifty-year history. in 1967 by founders Elizabeth “Bemi” Although it is an organization for and deBus and Dr. Clark Cameron, to today. about whales, it needs people like you to We thank all of you! further our aim to educate the public and One could assume that we would have help cetacean conservation efforts. celebrated our golden jubilee with great As we are closing our 50th anniversary fanfare. Instead however, we tried to take year, it is good to take a moment to stock of where we are today. The world has changed so much these five decades, as does the way organizations like ours communicate with their members and WHAT’SINSIDE engage with the public at large. Like any long-lived organization, ACS has seen its 1 LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT struggles. How can a whale and dolphin conservation group remain relevant in an 3 ACS CHAPTER REPORTS ever-changing landscape of social media and endless flood of information? 15 ANNUAL APPEAL So, we rolled up our sleeves. We JODI FREDIANI Blue fluke in Monterey Bay. Letter cont. partnered with MemberClicks to both who have worked tirelessly to bring more effectively manage our membership their passion for whales into their and a way for our members to become communities through meetings, more engaged with ACS. As a benefit, outreach, student grants, and this will free up staffing hours and save citizen science. You can read all needed dollars for ACS programs aimed about what our chapters have at education and conservation. been up to in this newsletter! Apart from our quarterly newsletter, Lastly, and most importantly, Spyhopper, we are also working on we look to the amazingly reviving our annual full-color journal passionate students within our Whalewatcher. Scott Kraus, senior Science organization as the generation Advisor and Chief Scientist for the New that will take ACS into the next 50 England Aquarium, will be our guest years and beyond. The ACS Student editor for our next “Right Whale Issue”. Coalition is an inspiration to all of us. North Atlantic right whales face enormous problems and their survival is on the line. Sincerely, Reason enough to focus our next journal to this beleaguered species. We hope to have this issue in the mail in the early part 2018. We are also working on the next exciting ACS conference in 2018, and hope to have more information on dates and location within the next month. Uko Gorter, president ON BEHALF OF The heart of the American Cetacean Society WHALES, DOLPHINS still remains within our ACS Chapters, AND PORPOISES ACS NATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS Uko Gorter, President Mike Makofske, Past President Diane Glim, Secretary Joy Primrose, Treasurer STAFFBOX Sabena Siddiqui, Student Coalition Raphael Fennimore EDITOR ON THE COVER Lynette Koftinow Diane Glim From Left to Right: Humpback mother and Jayne Vanderhagen calf pair in Tonga by Jodi Frediani. Sunset ILLUSTRATIONS fluke by Katie Dunbar from Monterey Bob Wilson Uko Gorter Bay Whale Watch. ACS/SD member Doris Read more about our touches a gray whale in San Ignacio. Chapters and Board Members GRAPHIC DESIGNER Breaching whale by Jodi Frediani. at acsonline.org Rose Freidin 2 ACS Spyhopper December 2017 acsonline.org ANNUALCHAPTER REPORTS JODI FREDIANI Orcas from ACS/SD trip to Anacortes (top right). Humpbacks lunge-feeding on anchovies in Monterey Bay (bottom). LOS ANGELES CHAPTER SPECIAL REPORT Gray Whale Census and Behavior Project 2016-2017: Highlights Census Project Director/Coordinator: Peninsula. Our cliffside post is on the Alisa Schulman-Janiger patio of the Point Vicente Interpretive Email: [email protected] Center (PVIC) , 125 feet above kelp beds For a more detailed version of this report and rocky shoreline, with a seafloor that and for information about daily sightings, drops off abruptly nearshore. Trained KARIN CAMPBELL KARIN visit: acs-la.org volunteers collect data on gray whales and other cetaceans, including identifications, Our second highest southbound calf counts, and behaviors. All participants use counts, highest northbound peak counts binoculars; several use spotting scopes since 1988, rarely seen offshore type killer to confirm/detail sightings. Weather data whales (traveling with fin whales), and (visibility, weather conditions, and sea rare looks at false killer whales highlighted conditions) is recorded twice hourly. our 2016/2017 ACS/LA Gray Whale Census and Behavior Project. This is the 34th COVERAGE consecutive season that the American • December 1, 2016 - May 25, 2017 ALISA SCHULMAN-JANIGER Cetacean Society’s Los Angeles Chapter • 2,128 hours over 176 days, averaging over Census view on May 22, 2017 (top). has sponsored a full season gray whale 12 hours/day Census observers on May 24, 2017 (bottom). census project from the Palos Verdes acsonline.org ACS Spyhopper December 2017 3 GORDON GATES GREGG GENTRY Mother and calf on May 10, 2017 (top left). Bottlenose dolphin kelping on May 4, 2017 (top right). Fluking from April 30, 2017 (bottom left). Whiteboard May 25, 2017 (bottom right). GREGG GENTRY • 104 volunteers contributed 10,838 effort • NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) earliest ending in six seasons; flukeless hours; 31 volunteers have been with us for estimated the gray whale population at whale on March 23! over 10 years ~20,990 (2010-11) • Peak northbound dates: 107 on March • Experienced observers anchor all shifts • Gray whales were removed from the 20, 105 on March 18 (96 last season); (observer experience affects whale counts) endangered species list in 1994 highest peak counts since 1988! • Sixteen core volunteers donated over PEAKS AND TURN-AROUND DATES PEAK NORTHBOUND WEEK 200 hours each (totaling 47.9% of our SOUTHBOUND • Phase A - main migration pulse: 510 effort hours) • Fourth highest southbound count; grays from March 18-24 (531 last • Fifteen other volunteers donated 100- migration started later (after five early season - 3 weeks earlier) 199 hours each (totaling 17.5% of our seasons) • Phase B - cow/calf migration pulse: effort hours) • Peak southbound dates: 46 on January usually peaks 4-8 weeks after the main GRAY WHALE 14. (Peak range: 15-98) migration pulse COUNTS • Peak southbound week: 218 SB grays • Peak northbound calf week: 60 cow/ Northbound counts fell (still was our eight from January 31-February 6 (226 last calf pairs (144 whales): April 20-26 highest count); southbound counts were season, a week earlier) PROBABLE ADDITIONAL GRAY WHALES our fourth highest TURN-AROUND 13 grays; 1 more southbound calf, 9 more • 1.256 southbound (1,430 last season); northbound exceeds southbound northbound calves southbound range: 301-1,902 • First date that northbound exceeded CALF COUNTS • 1,990 northbound (2,541 last season); southbound: February 9 SOUTHBOUND CALVES northbound range: 521-3,412 • Official turn-around : February 27 • Second highest newborn calf count ; over • Gray whale counts fluctuate annually (daily northbound primarily exceeded twice last season’s count! • Variable feeding ground conditions southbound whales) • 68 southbound calves (5.4% of (especially ice coverage) affect migratory • No gap between migration phases; southbound migrants), from December timing and corridors overlap (extended southbound 25-February 28 • More foggy days this season; no visibility migration) • Last season we saw 33 newborn calves during four consecutive days of March • We spotted 67 northbound whales (2.3% of the southbound migrants) northbound peak period during the “southbound migration” • Peak southbound calf dates: 7 cow/calf • Locally, most southbound grays prefer phase pairs on January 13 offshore corridors; many northbound • We spotted 105 southbound whales • Record season: 1997-1998, with 106 calves whales shift nearshore during the “northbound migration” (8.6% of southbound migrants) • Wild populations fluctuate annually, as do phase • Previous southbound calf counts ranged the number of whales that complete the NORTHBOUND migration from 3-60 (0.5%-8.9% of southbound • Eighth highest count! More typical: migrants) 4 ACS Spyhopper December 2017 acsonline.org DAVE JANIGER DAVE Census observers on May 20, 2017. • Peak southbound calf week: 18 cow/calf direction changes; spyhopped or lifted INTERACTIONS pairs (193 whales): January 9-15 heads up; rolled onto side. Gray whales interacted with bottlenose, NORTHBOUND CALVES OTHER SPECIES common, and Pacific white-sided dolphin; sea lions • Sixth highest count! SIGHTED MIXED SPECIES GROUPS • 207 northbound calves (10.4% of Comparing this season to last season mixed dolphin species, dolphin/sea lions, northbound migrants), from March 9-May 17 We saw 12-13 other marine mammal and other whales with dolphin/sea lions • Peak northbound calf date: 14 cow/calf species throughout our 176 observational MISC pairs on April 21 days (183 days last season) Peregrine falcon* : Nearly daily: mated, HIGHLIGHTS • Record calf count: 2015-2016: 341 calves raised three chicks (*second year nesting Very rare killer whales (offshore type and (13.4% of northbound migrants) documented at PVIC) ETPs) and false killer whales. • Other calf counts ranged from 11-318 OSPREY • Common dolphin on 151 days (157) false (0.9%-18.5% of northbound migrants) Many days. Peregrine falcons and ospreys killer
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