Since last week (23.5.2017) Ellyne and Heike are in Lofoten and have the boat ready to study the whales. So far several groups of Orcas have been seen since March and during the last week large groups of long-finned pilot whales were in the Vestfjord. We are very happy to be back and be able […]
Field work in Lofoten has started! Read More »
Invitation to the “Oceanday” in Stuttgart: Annual meeting for Ocean Sounds e.V. members only:15-16:30 ‘clockDHBW Herdweg 29, Room 104 Open Presentations (everyone is welcome!!) When: 03.12.2016 from 18 to 21 o’clock Where: DHBW Stuttgart Jägerstraße 56 What: 18-19 Uhr: Ocean Sounds Whale Research in Norway and Raja Ampat, by founder & biologist Heike Vester 19:15-20:00
Ocean Sounds annual meeting with open lectures 3.12.2016! Read More »
We have started a cooperation with the WDC and they have posted a blog of my work and challenges: “I started my research in Norway 13 years ago as a naïve field biologist who wanted to study the natural behaviour of whales. In other words, I wanted to get a boat and go out to
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Every 8 seconds an explosion can be heard in the Vestfjord, ongoing day and night, it only stops during bad weather and when the seismic surveys have technical issues. These surveys are conducted ca 200-300km southwest from here in Traenabanken since end of April and will go on all summer until 31.10, you can follow
After successful 4 months in Raja Ampat, we are now continuing our field work on Lofoten in Norway.In Raja Ampat we could finally collect enough information in order to develop a long-term research project. We found Benjamin Kahn from Apex environmental, who has conducted whale research in RA since 2007, as our main collaborator in
Now you can order our beautiful blue Ocean Sounds Whale T-shirts, artwork by Chris Studer and support our work.Please visit Feuerbach.de or send us an email with the order: Price: € 30.- (inkl. MwSt).You can send us an email redaktion@feuerbach.de or info@ocean-sounds.com and order your shirt.porto in Germany: € 3,50 or International: € 5.- (we send the shirt
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After two years of hard struggle with referees we are pleased to announce the publication of our scientific article: “Quantifying group specificity of animal vocalizations without specific sender information” Heike Vester, Kurt Hammerschmidt, Marc Timme, and Sarah Hallerberg. PHYSICAL REVIEW E 93, 022138, 2016 Vester et al PhysRevE”
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we supported the Free Morgan Foundation with a sound file, which we have recorded in 2005 in northern Norway from a killer whale group we named P. After comparing calls uttered by Morgan in captivity we could match many calls to the repertoire of group P and can assume that they are closely related.We believe
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2015 has come to an end, it was a challenging year full of hard struggles and some losses, the transition of Ocean Sounds AS (a Norwegian limited) into a non-profit Organization (Ocean Sounds e.V., located in Germany) was not easy and cost quite a lot of Norwegian kroner…. But it is done and we had
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Mare TV Lofoten This German documentary shows different people living and working in Lofoten, among them whale researcher Heike Vester from Ocean Sounds.While the documentary shows the beautiful nature of Lofoten and covers many sides in detail, there are a few mistakes which need to be highlighted: 1) Heike Vester does not work alone, she
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