WhaleFest

Schedule:
Friday,November 7:
11:00-2:00 pm:Registration and Information Table Open

11:00-6:00 pm:Students Marine Art Show

12:45-1:00 pm:Symposium Welcome

1:00-4:00 pm: Symposium -From Here to There:The amazing migrations of Marine Mammals and sea birds

1:00-1:45 pm:Carey Kuhn, Ph.D.-Flexible Foraging behavior: how fur seals and sea lions respond to environmental Variation

2:00-2:45 pm:Craig Matkin Interception and predation of migrating gray whales by aggregations of killer whales in Western Alaska: the risk of predictable migratory pathways

3:00-3:45 pm:Scott Shaffer, Ph.D.Have wings will travel:around the pacific ocean with migrating sooty shearwaters

11:00-6:00 pm:The Market at WhaleFest and The Market Cafe, Silent Auction

7:30 pm:Friday Night Concert-Maritime Monthly Grind

Saturday, November 8:
9:00 am:Registration WhaleFest 10K Run and 5K Walk -Whale Park

10:00 am:WhaleFest 10K Run and 5K Walk

9:00-11:30 am:Whale Watching Tour -Proceeds support WhaleFest

9:00-5:30 pm:The Market at WhaleFest and The Market Cafe,Silent Auction

10:00-5:00 pm:Students Marine Art Show

11:30-4:00 pm:Registration and Information Table Open

1:00-4:00pm:Symposium -Marine mammals and the changing arctic

1:00-1:45 pm:Craig George -A tough trip through (Frozen) Paradise

2:00-2:45 pm:Bruce Mate, Ph.D -The Changing Range And Role Of Gray Whales

3:00-3:45 pm:Robert Suydam -Movement and Distribution of beluga whales with a focus on the eastern chukchi sea stock

6:30 pm:Banquet with Keynote speaker, Russ Andrews, Ph.D -Using High-Tech Gizmos to Spy on Seals and Whales in Alaska: An Attempt to Understand How Marine Mammals Cope with Changing Environments

Sunday,Novemver 9:
9:00-11:30 am:Whale Watching Tour -Proceeds support WhaleFest

10:00-2:00 pm:Registration and Information Table Open

11:00-4:30 pm:The Market at WhaleFest and The Market Cafe,Silent Auction

11:00-4:00 pm:Students Marine Art Show

1:00-4:00 pm:Symposium -Fitting In:How Migrating Seals and Whales Adapt To their Surroundings

1:00-1:45 pm:Alison Banks -Northern Fur Seal Seasonal Movements And Foraging Strategies:Consequences To Females And Their Pups

2:00-2:45 pm:Dan Crocker, Ph.D -Foraging Ecology Of Northern Elephant Seals:Physiology, Energetics, and Behavior

3:00-3:45 pm:Mike Castellini, Ph.D. "A Several Thousand Mile Migration For You without Eating Would Be Tough.But Is It Hard For A Whale Or A Seal

4:30-5:30 pm:Sea Chantey Concert- Don Sineti, chanteyman extraordinaire

Date: November 7-9, 2008

Location:
The Harrigan Centennial Hall
330 Harbor Drive
Sitka AK 99835