Southern Hemisphere
Blue Whale Catalogue

CREDITS

The SHBWC project has been developed thanks to the support of the International Whaling Commission (www.iwc.int) and its implementation has been assigned to Centro de Conservacion Cetacea (www.ccc-chile.org). The SHBWC software has been developed thanks to the original software provided by Mingan Island Cetacean Study (www.rorqual.com).

 

Contributors

Until 2015, four major areas from waters off Antarctica, Australian/NewZealand/Indonesia, Southern Africa/Madagascar and Gulf of California/Eastern Tropical Pacific/South America are included with catalogues from:

 

Australian Antarctic Division www.antarctica.gov.au

Blue Whale Study Inc. www.bluewhalestudy.org

Center for Whale Research www.cwr.org.au

Centro de Conservación Cetacea www.ccc-chile.org

CMST Curtin University http://cmst.curtin.edu.au/

International Whaling Commission - SOWER cruises www.iwc.int

MARVEL Flinders University www.flinders.edu.au  

Mammal Research Institute Whale Unit, University of Pretoria www.up.ac.za/mammal-research-institute

Marine Mammal Institute, Oregon State University http://mmi.oregonstate.edu/

Sri Lanka Blue Whale Project http://whalessrilanka.blogspot.com/

Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries Service http://swfsc.noaa.gov/

Western Whale Research http://souwest.org/research/western-whale-research/