We will start our New Year with an exciting participation at the “Love your Ocean” stand to save the Ocean at the fair “the boot” in Duesseldorf from 18-26.01.2020!
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We are pleased to announce a new joint scientific publication on the behaviour of pilot whales by Charlotte Cure et al.
New joint pilot whale publication! Read More »
This is a kind reminder that we have closed our research and education in Lofoten, Norway already in 2014 and stopped offering whale watching tours already in 2011. We have moved our Ocean Sounds Norway base to Bodo on the other side of the Vestfj…
Lofoten Centre is closed Read More »
On Saturday 2 June, we learnt of a Sperm Whale stranding in West Papua. Today, Tuesday 5 June, he’s deceased and has been identified as a female. A 5cm wound is visible on the carcass but no further information. About 16m long, she was in about 2.5m of water, wedged on a sand bank in Numbrai
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We are pleased to announce that our work on the vocal repertoire of long-finned pilot whales in Norway has been published in JASA! The knowledge of the vocal repertoire of pilot whales is very limited. In this paper, the vocal repertoire of long-finned pilot whales recorded during different encounters in the Vestfjord in northern Norway
New Article on Pilot Whale communication published! Read More »
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
Whales of Norway need protection! Read More »
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
