Prior Whalefest Monterey Symposium Presentations - Virtual

Event Date:
Apr 14 - Dec 31, 2025 at 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Below are links to prior Symposium presentations at Whalefest Monterey.

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Links to Whalefest Monterey Presentations from 2016-2020 are below.  

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Here are links to the Whalefest Monterey Presentations for 2016-2020:

Whalefest Monterey 2020 Presentations:

Saturday, January 25, 2020

#1 William Oestreich, Shirel Rachel Kahane-Rapport, James Andrew Fahlbusch, and Will Taylor Gough--Students from Hopkins Marine Station at Stanford University. "The Formative Stages of Becoming a Whale Researcher"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIEVTC0S9sY

#2 Paul Michel, MBNMS. "An update on the latest developments concerning the Sanctuary"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tuFwxW7hak

#3 Chad King, MBNMS. "Octopus Garden and a Whale Fall: Recent Discoveries in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary"

https://youtu.be/-GenJrP4eFY

Welcome. Mary Alice Fettis, Whalefest Committee Chair   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOUldoaIQVA

Welcome. Mayor Roberson  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTg564XwPnc

#4 Julie Packard, Exec Dir. Monterey Bay Aquarium, with Erika Mahoney, KAZU. "If we're talking about saving the planet, we're talking about saving the ocean: A conversation with Julie Packard “

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1BkkSTD9Tc

#5 Rear Admiral (ret.) Jon White, Consortium for Ocean Leadership, “Ocean Security: Breaching Challenges Through The Power Of Partnerships”

https://youtu.be/fXP546YUA8A

#6 Colleen Flanigan, Living Sea Sculpture/ UCSC. "Art and Science for Coral Reef Restoration"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLOzoa5GiPk

Sunday, January 26, 2020

#7 Steve Mandel, Executive Director, Oceans 360. “Using Virtual Reality for Ocean Conservation Education”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbl6lEa-aT8

#8 Wallace J. Nichols, PH.D., Author Blue Mind. “Whales are Medicine”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxU8O84Tikw

#9 Peggy Stap, Marine Life Studies. “Whale Disentanglement by the General Public:  Good Intentions, Bad Decisions and Updates of The Whale Entanglement Team (WET)®” 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxfNvVjkVTg

#10 Brandon Southall, Ph.D., Southall Environmental Associates. “Listening to California’s Whales: Acoustic Science to Inform Conservation and Inspire the Next Generation”

https://youtu.be/zO7oCRwFM64


 Whalefest Monterey 2019 Presentations 

Whalefest 2019 - Whale Conservation Efforts, California

 

https://videoplayer.telvue.com/player/m_3HX6961GRMsvkqSCdwmGeJ8rwpRZrR/media/425020?fullscreen=false&showtabssearch=true&autostart=false
 

Whalefest 2019 - Creating Sustainable Fishing Future

 

https://videoplayer.telvue.com/player/m_3HX6961GRMsvkqSCdwmGeJ8rwpRZrR/media/425023?fullscreen=false&showtabssearch=true&autostart=false
 

Whalefest 2019 - Whale Entanglement Team

 

https://videoplayer.telvue.com/player/m_3HX6961GRMsvkqSCdwmGeJ8rwpRZrR/media/425024?fullscreen=false&showtabssearch=true&autostart=false
 

Whalefest 2019 - Monterey, Abalone Capitol of the World

 

https://videoplayer.telvue.com/player/m_3HX6961GRMsvkqSCdwmGeJ8rwpRZrR/media/425027?fullscreen=false&showtabssearch=true&autostart=false
 

Here's the link to Sunday's Lectures.  

 

Whalefest 2019 - Ecotourism as a Tool for Marine Conservation

https://videoplayer.telvue.com/player/m_3HX6961GRMsvkqSCdwmGeJ8rwpRZrR/media/426238?fullscreen=false&showtabssearch=true&autostart=false

 

Whalefest 2019 - Great Pacific Garbage Patch

https://videoplayer.telvue.com/player/m_3HX6961GRMsvkqSCdwmGeJ8rwpRZrR/media/426243?fullscreen=false&showtabssearch=true&autostart=false

 

WhaleFest 2019 - Shrinking Squid & Climate Change

https://videoplayer.telvue.com/player/m_3HX6961GRMsvkqSCdwmGeJ8rwpRZrR/media/426237?fullscreen=false&showtabssearch=true&autostart=false

 

WhaleFest 2019 - Tracking Ecosystem Changes with Seabird Feathers

https://videoplayer.telvue.com/player/m_3HX6961GRMsvkqSCdwmGeJ8rwpRZrR/media/426242?fullscreen=false&showtabssearch=true&autostart=false

 

Whalefest Monterey 2018 Symposium YouTube Links

 

Elan Porter Hopkins Marine Station: What Can Undesirable Fish in Whale Food Tell Us?

https://youtu.be/hffAn9E1ZxE

 

Paul Michel National Marine Sanctuary 2018 Update

https://youtu.be/UEhNHiixQfg

 

Greg Cailliet  Moss Landing Marine Lab Below Pacific Tides

https://youtu.be/yNDNpbsGlb8

 

Peggy Stap Marine Life Studies WET Saving Whales from Life Threatening Entanglements

https://youtu.be/dO-vAsRGtbw

 

Anne Warner Research Scientist Reducing Marine Plastic Pollution

https://youtu.be/dTzMJOedy3U

 

Heirs to Our Oceans

https://youtu.be/Dhcx2xQ1ug0

 

Benyamin Rosental Stanford University

https://youtu.be/PRvV4tIohUM

 

John Pearse Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Cruz, “The Strange and Wonderful Sex Life in the Rocky Intertidal”

https://youtu.be/i17pTgBeRXU

 

John Ryan, MBARI & John Joseph, NPS. "The Ocean Soundscape is a Whalefest"

https://youtu.be/oWXj2fiv6yA

 

Alison Haupt CSUMB “Integrating Marine Research into the Classroom”

https://youtu.be/eFZh3wIgFbs

 

Steve Shimek The Otter Project “You Otter Like this Video”

https://youtu.be/F-ARfQFufTY

 

Whalefest  Monterey 2017 Your Sanctuary TV link to you tube presentations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QJ0cVmPtK0&list=PLJFlU5j65V2H4fdLimcb_hklyBvbF9VxU

 

Whalefest Monterey 2016 Your Sanctuary TV link to you tube presentations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjSMXEbFojA&list=PLJFlU5j65V2FipOks9r6TbFp00JDLjdS_