Mammals
August 18, 2022
PBS, first aired June 22, 2022. The Marine Mammal Research Program (MMRP) at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) and the Alaska Whale Foundation was […]
June 22, 2022
UH News, first published on June 15, 2022. Oʻahu high school students spent the week on Moku o Loʻe (Coconut Island) learning about marine mammals science at a University […]
February 16, 2022
(Photo credit: UH Health and Stranding Lab, NOAA Fisheries Permit #18786) UH News, first published on 2/15/2022 In response to a dead humpback whale calf near the Wailupe peninsula on Oʻahu, the […]
August 11, 2021
HIMB’s Kristi West, lab director at UH Health and Stranding Lab, found a novel strain of morbillivirus in a Fraser’s dolphin that was stranded on Maui […]
May 22, 2021
HIMB’s Marine Mammal Research Program (MMRP) to document rapid weight loss in a group of distressed pygmy killer whales off Maui in 2019. For the full story, […]
April 19, 2021
HIMB’s associate researcher, Dr. Kristi West, and a team of graduate students, undergraduate students, and program volunteers discovered a new popular food item for Hawaiʻi’s false […]
April 19, 2021
HIMB’s associate researcher, Dr. Kristi West, took advantage of a rare opportunity to harvest samples from a whale carcass that washed up on Waimānalo beach last week. […]
October 13, 2019
HIMB’s Marine Mammal Research Program (MMRP) and their partners have captured amazing whale’s-point-of-view and aerial drone video of humpback whale bubble-net feeding. To read the full story […]