The Dolphin Institute, Hilo, HI Videos
Videos by The Dolphin Institute in Hilo. The Dolphin Institute is dedicated to dolphins and whales through education, research, and conservation.
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Monday in Maui was a special treat for us at TDI paying it forward to kids worldwide as our collaborative research team was joined by Martin and Chris Kratt for the filming of a new whale episode for the PBS Kids series “Wild Kratts”! My UH Hilo students, many of whom grew up or had their kids grow up developing a love for animals from this program were thrilled! All whale footage taken under NOAA permit 19655 to Adam Pack
TDI’s Adam Pack celebrating a great day on the water today off Maui collaborating with Ph.D. Student and Louis M. Herman Research Scholarship recipient Julia Zeh and the Humpback Whale Sanctuary’s Dr. Marc Lammers deploying suction cup acoustic and video recording tags on humpback whales to learn about vocal development, communication patterns and energetics.
Last week, our research team from UH Hilo Marine Mammal Lab, The Dolphin Institute, UH Manoa and Maui-based HAMER completed a series of aerial surveys around Hawai’i Island with an emphasis on the Windward side for spinner dolphins and other cetaceans to compliment work initiated by the Marine Mammal Research Program of Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, UH Manoa to estimate abundance. Lots of great sightings of spinner dolphins as well as false killer whales, tough toothed dolphins, bottlenose dolphins and other species. Aerial surveys were conducted under NOAA Permit 21482.
Great day of field research with acoustic localization of individual vocalizing dolphins in a group of about 100 off Lanai!! Lots of photo ids too! All research conducted under NOAA permit 19655 to Adam A Pack.
About to board the Nautilus for a National Geographic Explorer research cruise off Maui and Hawaii island to use some new technology to localize which individuals in groups of different dolphin and whale species are vocalizing! We have sn awesome team of researchers and educators and will be streaming science to classrooms in Hawaii and worldwide. In addition to our marine mammal team we have a shark team!! Stay tuned!
This morning we began a 9 day series of aerial surveys for spinner dolphins around Hawaii island as part of a large collaborative project with the marine mammal research program at HIMB to learn about their habitat use and estimate their island abundance. We sighted over an estimated 250 dolphins today!
Just completed our 15th year of summer surveys of North Pacific humpback whales in their feeding grounds of Southeast Alaska. Most of these whales winter in Hawaiian waters to breed and calve. Our goals for the Alaska work are to document the composition, relationships and migratory destinations of whales in cooperative feeding groups hunting herring using bubble nets, and tracing the life histories of individual whales. During our 8 day survey under NOAA permit 19655 we covered areas of Frederick Sound, Stephen’s Passage and Chatham Strait, had two days of documenting great bubblenet feeders, and found two adult whales from our archival catalog who we first sighted as adults in 1980. Taking into account a year as a calf and a year as a yearling, that’s a minimum age of 44 years!! Aside from the humpbacks, we also documented woth our participant assistants killer whales and observed calving glaciers, brown and black bears, cascading waterfalls and various bird species, all aboard the awesome vessel the Alaska Sea Adventures Northern Song.