Marine Education and Research Society - Whale Catalogues & Publications

MERS Catalogues and Publications

MERS Whale Catalogues

Catalogue of Humpback Whales of Northeastern Vancouver Island version 6 (July 2018)

Minke Whale catalogue

MERS Publications

McMillan, C.J., J.R. Towers, and J. Hildering. 2018. The innovation and diffusion of "trap-feeding," a novel humpback whale foraging strategy. In progress.

Towers, J.R., M. Malleson, C.J. McMillan, J. Cogan, S. Berta, and C. Birdsall. 2018. Occurrence of fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) between Vancouver Island and continental North America. Northwestern Naturalist 99: 49-57.

McMillan, C.J. 2014. How important are herring to humpback whales? The role of herring in meeting the energetic requirements of humpback whales in a British Columbia feeding ground (Master’s dissertation). Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada: Simon Fraser University. 68 p.

Towers, J.R, C.J. McMillan, M. Malleson, J. Hildering, J.K.B. Ford, and G.M. Ellis. 2013. Seasonal movements and ecological markers as evidence for migration of common minke whales photo-identified in the eastern North Pacific. J. Cetacean Res. Manage. 13(3):221-229.

Pitman, R.L., J.W. Durban, M. Greenfelder, C. Guinet, M. Jorgensen, P.A. Olson, J. Plana, P. Tixier, and J.R. Towers. Observations of a distinctive morphotype of killer whale (Orcinus orca), type D, from subantarctic waters. 2011. Polar Biol. 34: 303-306.

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