





WASHINGTON

Right On the Brink: The Plight of the North Pacific Right Whale
Tue, Jan 09
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Join us on the second Tuesday in January to learn about the elusive North Pacific right whale. Come learn about the North Pacific right whales in this talk from Jessica Crance about their dark history, the research being done to save them, and the struggles and rewards of studying them.


Time and Location
Jan 09, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ
About the event
Right On the Brink: The Plight of the North Pacific Right Whale
When: Tuesday, January 9 at 7pm
Where: Online via Zoom - Click here for free registration
Join us on the second Tuesday in January to learn about the elusive North Pacific right whale. Once numbering in the tens of thousands, the North Pacific right whale was driven to the brink of extinction; now fewer than 50 animals remain in the eastern population. So how do you study the proverbial needle in a very large haystack? Come learn about the North Pacific right whales in this talk from Jessica Crance about their dark history, the research being done to save them, and the struggles and rewards of studying the most critically endangered large whale population in the world. Jessica is a research biologist at the NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center's Marine Mammal Laboratory. She joined the lab’s Cetacean Assessment and…