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The Whalenerd's Podcast is a science communication podcast about whales and other ocean related topics.
Slater is back! We caught up this winter in Maui and had a nice chat about our impressions and experience on the island for the first time i...
Katlyn and Chelsi chat about east coast humpbacks! Chelsi Napoli is currently a PhD candidate at Stony Brook University in the Thorne Lab. I...
Katlyn is back from Antarctica with more stories from her time as an expedition guide this season. Hear about sightings of penguins, seals a...
Katlyn shares some of her encounters and adventures working in Svalbard this past summer.
We had special guest Kayah George, a Coast Salish matriarch in training, on this week to chat about some of her passions and knowledge about...
This week's episode we had Alex Brash join us to talk about his new book: A Whaler at Twilight: A True Account of Whaling and Redemption in...
This is the last episode of Antarctica trip reports! Hear about Katlyn's adventures in Argentina during her break, and the last two trips of...
With some down time from the ship, Katlyn took an adventure in Chile with her family before embarking again for the Southern Ocean. Hear abo...
Three Antarctic Peninsula trips in one month. Whew! It was a lot but there were so many whales and cool science! Hear more about Katlyn's ti...
As avian flu continued to spread on the island of South Georgia, trips became more challenging. Listen to Katlyn's stories of the next month...
After a small break - Katlyn is back with updates from the Southern Hemisphere. Hear about her first trip of the season to South Georgia and...
Katlyn gives a review of the last part of her Alaska season and talks about a few bonus trips at the end.
Katlyn gives a mid season update on her Alaska summer. The ship she is on is covering the Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands and SE Alaska. Hear a...
Killer whales are winning the summer of 2023 online. In the midst of heavy news coverage of the Iberian orcas interacting with boats making...
After a longer break Katlyn is back with a recap episode from the spring trips and her first month at sea in Alaska. Listen in for a detaile...
This week we checked in on the North Atlantic Right Whale breeding season. Meet the moms for this season and a little about their history!
There are multiple breeding areas off the Western North Pacific Ocean where humpback whales go to breed in the winter. We covered a recent p...
We were so excited to talk to Belén for this episode about her work in Iceland. Belén is a marine biologist, wildlife guide, and sailor who...
Slater is back from his safari trip to Kenya! After talking about whale sightings and safari sightings we chat about how hippos are indeed d...
This week Katlyn takes us through some information about humpback whale migration patterns in the Southern Hemisphere. After Slater came bac...
Happy New Year! Several birthing events for large whales in the North Pacific have been documented this winter. So we did a recap of the lat...
This is our last episode of 2022. We talked through an early season update for Maui with some data from NOAA, observations on the water, and...
This week we get caught up on a few updates for everyone, including sharing some gratitude for you all. We are so grateful to everyone that...
This week we had guest Andy Rogan on from Ocean Alliance. Andy is the Science Manager for the Ocean Alliance SnotBot program. We chatted abo...
Whale sightings have still been going strong as whales are working their way South for winter season in the Northern Hemisphere. Katlyn took...
We chatted all things hydrophone this week with John Ryan from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). As you know, we are hug...
We have had quite a few friendly humpback whale encounters over the past month. So we wanted to chat more about what makes an encounter "fri...
Katlyn takes us through the basics of how sound moves in water. You can learn the definitions of how sound is characterized and how it's mea...
Slater is back from his trip to Tonga and we couldn't wait to talk about it! Hear about his experience swimming with humpbacks in a Southern...
This week Katlyn did a little follow up on the fin whale story from Antarctica that we have been talking about throughout the summer. For mo...
Competitive behaviors are ramping up in the Northern Hemisphere! Humpback whales have started practicing and engaging in competitive behavio...
It’s been awhile since we had the chance to catch up on summer sightings in Monterey. We also had some sad news about a well known whale in...
This week we chatted with Katherina Audley about humpback whales in Southern Mexico. For almost the last 10 years she has fostered an incred...
Our sightings report was a little bit shocking and has some adult humor. We talked quite a bit about what we think the killer whales off the...
After two rough winters in a row for the manatees in Florida around Indian River - we wanted to chat about the state of the response to help...
We had a guest this week. Dr. Matthew Savoca joined us to talk about his work with marine plastics and baleen whale prey consumption. He is...
Ted was back for another episode with us this week. This time around we chatted with him about his background with Cheesemans' Ecology Safar...
Hundreds of fin whales gather in Antarctic hotspots in large feeding aggregations. This story has been in the news cycle off and on for mont...
This week we talked about Indo Pacific bottlenose dolphins and their unique spa treatments. These animals in the Red Sea have figured out ho...
We are so excited about our trip to Antarctica this winter! In preparation for our trip with Cheeseman's we have started to learn about the...
We have a couple announcements this week. The San Juan Islands trip has been postponed to October of 2023 - you can still book this trip on...
We had Dave Cade on this week to talk to us about whale and shark tagging. Dave has worked with rorqual whales all over the globe and is cur...
There are so many humpback whales on the California Coast right now! So it was only fitting that we talked about a new memo from NOAA about...
New mics! Can you tell the difference? The nerds talk about recent sightings along the California coast including blue whales in Monterey! A...
This week we talked about the final report from the Baja Lagoons in Mexico. The gray whale breeding season is ending on a higher note than y...
In Episode 109 We had a special guest Chase Dekker. Chase was born and raised in Monterey, CA. He attended college in Washington at Western...
We just finished up our three day weekend of trips in Monterey Bay! Thank you so much to everyone who attended. We were so fortunate that th...
This is our last episode before our April Killer Whale Trips! We caught up on a few sightings before talking about some of the latest news o...
Slater and Adam are back from Baja! We caught up on the long list of sightings we had from Baja, California, and Maui. Then we talked about...
This week we talked about updated and new information in regards to humpback whales. Most of this information is from Hawaii, but some of it...