For the past 8 years we have run an integrated research and STEM education program, giving over 25 young students skills and knowledge for a successful career

Check out project JASPER

Our photo-ID catalog of allows us to know who is who among the gray whales we encounter each day

Check our project GRANITE and our outreach site www.IndividuWhale.com

Drones allow us to collect unique data on whale behavior and health, including this gray whale swimming in the kelp near our research vessel off Oregon

Check out projects DIAMOND and GRANITE

Through our partnership with the US Coast Guard we collect occurrence data on fin, blue and humpback whales off the Oregon coast

Check out project OPAL

Surveying the ocean to collect important marine megafauna presence and absence data

Check out projects HALO and OPAL

Conducting whale surveys from USCG helicopters to document whale distribution patterns off the Oregon coast. Blue whale and gray whale images captured under NOAA permit # 21678

Conducting whale surveys from USCG helicopters to document whale distribution patterns off the Oregon coast

(Blue whale and gray whale images captured under NOAA permit # 21678.)

A foraging gray whale in a kelp bed off the Oregon coast conducts a ‘jaw snap’ to capture zooplankton prey. (Image taken by drone conducted by Todd Chandler under NOAA permit #16111).

A foraging gray whale in a kelp bed off the Oregon coast conducts a ‘jaw snap’ to capture zooplankton prey.

(Image taken by drone conducted by Todd Chandler under NOAA permit #16111)

The Port Orford gray whale research team, composed on high school, undergrads and graduate students, wraps up their kayak training session.

The Port Orford gray whale research team, composed of high school, undergrads and graduate students, wraps up their kayak training session

(Photo Leigh Torres)

A gray whale breaches in front of a fishing vessel outside the Newport harbor entrance

A gray whale breaches in front of a fishing vessel outside the Newport harbor entrance

(Photo Leigh Torres)

A New Zealand blue whale dwarfs the size of the GEMM Lab research boat (Image taken by drone conducted by Todd Chandler)

A New Zealand blue whale dwarfs the size of the GEMM Lab research boat

(Image taken by drone conducted by Todd Chandler)