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The last week of Beam Reach ‘07 – Week 10
I realise it has been 3 weekssince the program finished but I have been travelling and haven’t had time to post this blog. Here is how the final week of Beam Reach 07 went down.
Monday 22nd October
What a bloody busy day! I’ve processed all of my boat data and put them into graphical form for [...]
A fork in the data road, wildlife rehab & teaching kids – Week 9
Monday 15th October – Tuesday 16th October
I slept in until lunchtime on Monday as lack of sleep had really caught up on me from the last week at sea. I was the last one to bed every night last week and knew it would catch up with me eventually. I’ve vowed to stay active and [...]
Last week on the water - Week 8 (at sea)
Monday 8th October
Well, it’s the end of the first day of my last week at sea on the Beam Reach program, and we had whales today! We got some unbelievable recordings, it was literally a chorus of killer whale sounds. I was hearing sounds I’d never heard before – clicks, whistles, calls and sounds that [...]
Rain, deer and “I feel like…” – Week 7
Monday 1st October to Wednesday 3rd October
It’s been an interesting couple of days back on land. We had our peer and program evaluations due just before we got off the boat and it has become evident that there is a bit of tension within the VaTo group. Now me being the only guy in the [...]
Dall’s, Minke’s, and a one orca day - Week 6 (at sea)
Monday 24th September
Today was a bloody cold day! First real cold day out at sea and I guess a taste of the week to come. It’s the end of September so it’s only going to get colder. No whales today unfortunately, but it was a productive with hydrophone calibration and then subsequent data analysis. I [...]
Reading, writing, and ‘Oh Canada’ - Week 5
Monday 17th September to Wednesday 19th September
Well its mid week of Week 5 back on land, and it’s been hectic to say the least. When I say hectic I mean we have had reports to do, papers to read, and final proposals to write. Monday morning we went to Lacrover Farm again and did some [...]
Oh whales where art thou? - Week 4 (at sea)
Monday 10th September
So early this morning we had reports of J,K, and L pod up in the Strait of Georgia heading south. A superpod! JaMi last week got to witness a superpod on the west side of San Juan so I was really hoping we would get to witness it today. Now according to Val [...]
Back on land - Week 3
Monday 3rd to Thursday 6th September
Well the last 3 days on land have been spent fine tuning our research proposals. I’ve decided to focus on high frequency boat noise and create frequency power spectrums from these recordings and relate them to power spectrums of the killer whale high frequency echolocation clicks. I decided to [...]
Whales, “cats” and seals - Week 2 (at sea)
Monday 27th August
After spending the first night in my little hidey hole at the forward starboard, and getting up at 12:30am to see Mars appear to be a small moon (apparently this won’t happen again in 2000+ years), I awoke and poked my head out of my hatch to see flat calm water and I [...]
Beam Reach begins - Week 1
G’Day. I’m Tim from Australia and this is the first blog entry I’ll be making for the Fall 2007 Beam Reach Program. I plan on posting one a week but of course it all depends on time and how busy this program gets. So, in saying that, here’s how the first week went down.
I arrived [...]
