Male narwhals in a lead
A very young sperm whale waiting near the surface for its mother to return from the depths.
We've barely begun to figure out how to study the world's largest mammals. The future is all about expanding our view of them
– Flip NicklinBridging Marine Research with Marine Education & Conservation
Whale Trust was formed in 2001 to support field research on whales and their marine environment. Its founders are passionate scientists and explorers who believe that science-the quest for answers to the most intriguing questions about our natural world–lies at the heart of environmental education and conservation.
But Whale Trust seeks to do more than fund groundbreaking field research on our earth’s largest marine mammals. Results from Whale Trust’s field research are the basis for a broader program of outreach and education that involve the public, educators and a new generation of researchers whom Whale Trust hopes to inspire.
http://www.whaletrust.org/index.shtml
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Among Giants is an adventure story, a coming-of-age story, a scientific story, and most of all, a story about the most remarkable creatures on the planet—whales—how they live, how they bond with each other and with us, and what they need to survive.
This is an eminently accessible view of their world, a poetic portrayal in words and images of these stunnintg leviathans.
Whales, Comedy, and The Impressionists: A Collision
With Christopher Moore and Flip Nicklin
October 10, 2011, 6:00 PM, San Francisco
About ten years ago, New York Times bestselling comic novelist Christopher Moore decided to find out if there was more to write about whales, other than that they were “big and wet.” And that’s when he encountered National Geographic photographer Flip Nicklin.Then things got weird.
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