Photo: Courtesy of Dave Ellifrit, Center for Whale Research

• http://www.pugetsound.org
  People for Puget Sound is a citizens' group established in 1991 by Kathy Fletcher to protect and restore the health of our land and waters through education and action. Our members, partners and volunteers are located throughout the Puget Sound basin. Our staff works out of offices in Seattle, Olympia and Mount Vernon and our board of directors represents the communities we work in. Read more about our Key Programs and What We've Accomplished.



• http://www.orcaresearch.org
  A collaborative photo identification project for orca (also known as killer whales) in New Zealand and Antarctic waters.



• http://www.naturephotography.net/orca.html
  Roberto Bubas, and other rangers of the Province of Chubut, Argentina, have been conducting a long-term project to study the natural history and genealogy of the orcas of northern Patagonia. The principal goal of the project is to better understand the population status of the species to enable us to produce strategies for their conservation.



• http://www.whalesalaska.org
  North Gulf Oceanic Society, Homer, Alaska, a non-profit organization that specializes in marine mammal research, conservation and education. Primary projects are the study of the killer whale population off the coast of Alaska and of the humpback whales in Prince William Sound and Kenai Fjords.



• http://www.nature-shetland.co.uk/seamammal/orca.htm
  Photo-identification of North Atlantic Killer Whales



• http://www.cascadiaresearch.org/robin/kwindex.htm
  Biology and behavior of killer whales



• http://www.beamreach.org
  Beam Reach Marine Science and Sustainability School



• http://www.orcalab.org
  Orca Lab studies the Northern Resident Community primarily using vocalizations.



• http://www.orcasound.net
  The Salish Sea Hydrophone Network. A growing coalition of scientists, educators, and citizens are working together to expand a regional hydrophone network in the Salish Sea. This site is part of the SeaSound Project of The Whale Museum and is an experiment in sharing real-time underwater sound from different "nodes" of the network via the Internet.