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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

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”

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

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

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

Dear members and friends of OceanSounds,   In 5 days Heike will present the projects of Ocean Sounds: On November 22 in the Gemeindehaus in Rohrbronn (25km from Stuttgart) at 5:30 pm she will give a talk in German about the research work of OceanSounds: Whales in Raja Ampat (Indonesia) as well as a short

We are happy to announce that Stromsholmen diving and USEA are helping us with the winter Orca field work!They are out to look for whales in the Tromsø – Senja region and they will collect data for us, and their guests can learn more about the whales and the work of Ocean Sounds through our

New film on Orcas by Thierry Simon featuring Pierre De Latour / Orques sans frontiers, Paul Watson / Sea Shepherd and Heike Vester / Ocean Sounds screened in Paris, France on the 2nd of October, please go there if you are around:https://www.facebook.com/events/108387509506497/

We have launched our new website with a new look and content – explore the new pictures and information. What is new? First of all it represents our now in Germany based environmental charity with our 3 main research projects in Lofoten, Patagonia and Raja Ampat. In addition you will find a species guide with