Beam Reach: 061 general resources and references
Marine environmental issues
Orca overviews
Scientific papers, reports, and theses
Acoustics: General
Acoustics: Software packages
Acoustics: Equipment and hardware
- T-POD (Chelonia Ltd, Long Rock, UK): static passive acoustic monitoring
device with self-contained submersible data-logger commonly used to record
porpoises and dolphins and to inform environmental impact studies (EIS) of
offshore wind farms.
Local interest groups
- San Juan County Marine Resource Committee, Friday Harbor, WA, USA
- The Whale Museum, Friday Harbor, WA, USA
- The Center for Whale Research, San Juan Island, WA, USA
- Orca Network (Sightings email and archives) |
(Beam Reach mirror of sighting archives)
- Whale Watch Operators Association Northwest
- Orca Relief, San Juan Island, WA, USA
- Cascadia Research Collective, Olympia, WA, USA
- BC Sighting Network
- Johnstone Strait Killer Whale Interpretive Centre Society, Telegraph Cove, BC, Canada
- Friends of the San Juans, Friday Harbor, WA, USA
- American Cetacean Society, Puget Sound Chapter, Seattle, WA, USA
- Long Live the Kings, Orcas Island and Seattle, WA, USA
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General whale references
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Tides and currents
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- Xtide Harmonic tide clock and tide predictor (Unix, MacOSX)
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Sailing
Sustainability and service project
- San Juan County Renewable Energy Producers Cooperative. Contact Sandy Bishop on Lopez, Kyle Davies on San Juan, or
Eric Youngren on Orcas or lclt@rockisland.com for more info.
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FHL, Friday Harbor, and San Juan County
Press