Behind the Scenes with Whale Seeker: How Fieldwork Fuels Innovation
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Whale Seeker
- Sep 17
Behind the Scenes with Whale Seeker: How Fieldwork Fuels Innovation
Discover how Whale Seeker combines field expertise and high-tech innovation to create real-time marine mammal detection tools.
Chloé Benko-Prieur
- Sep 9
Developing scalable and resilient software solutions in a field with evolving data standardization
How to create software that not only solves today’s challenges, but is flexible enough to adapt to tomorrow’s unknowns? At Whale Seeker,...
Whale Seeker
- Aug 15
Building Better AI: The Importance of Data Quality in Marine Mammal Detection
Image description: Aerial image featuring complex ice patterns, with a spotlight on a seal detected by Möbius. Photo credit : National...
Christine Fürthaller
- Jun 26
Protecting Our Oceans: How Whale Seeker Can Support Canada’s 2030 Nature Strategy and the EU Biodiversity Strategy
Canada and the EU lead biodiversity efforts following UNESCO’s 2024 Ocean Report. Discover how Whale Seeker solutions can help!
Arnaud Pourchez
- May 1
Safeguarding the Giants: Harnessing Technologies to Protect North Atlantic Right Whales
The North Atlantic Right Whale (NARW) is one of the most endangered species in the world, with only a few hundred individuals remaining....
Bertrand Charry
- Apr 30
Understanding New Marine Protection Laws: A Game-Changer for Ocean Conservation
As we acknowledge the importance of conserving and safeguarding the marine environment, the absence of comprehensive laws and regulations...
Christine Fürthaller
- Mar 11
Techniques for monitoring whale migration from space
At Whale Seeker, we are thrilled to announce a groundbreaking collaboration with WWF and other partners marking a significant step...
Christine Fürthaller
- Feb 15
Unleashing AI Precision in Penguin Monitoring with Whale Seeker and Oceanites
In a world where environmental challenges and conservation efforts increasingly intersect with cutting-edge technology, the partnership...
Malcolm Kennedy
- Nov 9, 2023
All hands on deck: protecting the North Atlantic right whale
At the end of October, I had the privilege of attending the North Atlantic Right Whale Symposium’s annual meeting in Halifax, NS. The...
Sébastien Veyssiere
- Oct 26, 2023
Détecter les baleines autrement : la détection par point grâce à HerdNet
For the time being, this blog post is only available in French. Mise en contexte En vision par ordinateur, le choix du type d’annotation...
Whale Seeker
- Oct 18, 2023
The Annotation Solution that Checks Every Box for Marine Mammal Detection
In a world increasingly reliant on AI and automation, you might wonder why anyone would spend countless hours manually scouring aerial...
Christine Fürthaller
- Sep 12, 2023
Shaping AI ethics: UNESCO’s fresh insights and Whale Seeker’s solutions
The world of artificial intelligence has, without a doubt, reshaped how we live and work. But with great power comes great...
Careena Nolan
- Dec 20, 2022
New environmental and climate legislation for Australia: A Sea of opportunity?
Emerging from what has been entitled the "Climate Wars" Australia is beginning to finally see top-down change. This week, the new...
Kate Arnautovic
- Dec 2, 2022
Balancing our sdgs: the challenge of wind power and life below water
It’s clear that decarbonising the global economy to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 is a key priority for countries around the world....
Malcolm Kennedy and Raina Fan
- Nov 8, 2022
Why we’re not a non-profit
When we tell people about Whale Seeker, they’re often surprised to hear that we’re a for-profit company. It begs the question: when it...
Antoine Gagné
- Nov 3, 2022
Machine learning and noisy labels in seals
Recently, we were approached about monitoring seals from aerial images using machine learning. As the name Whale Seeker suggests, our...
Camille Rondeau Saint-Jean
- Nov 1, 2022
The study and protection of whales: a colossal challenge (3/3)
We saw in the last post that biologists need to be more creative in tracking and understanding whales, and that the unique...
Camille Rondeau Saint-Jean
- Oct 11, 2022
The study and protection of whales: a colossal challenge (2/3)
We saw in the last post that whales are particularly difficult animals to study, and that biologists have been very creative to find ways...
Camille Rondeau Saint-Jean
- Sep 2, 2022
The study and protection of whales: a colossal challenge (1/3)
Whales play a central ecological role in marine ecosystems. Why then are they so difficult to protect, despite the affection of the...
Emily Charry Tissier
- Jul 20, 2022
Why we are excited to be expanding to Rimouski
We recently announced Whale Seeker’s expanded reach to Rimouski, but we wanted to take a minute to talk about the reasons behind this...
Camille Rondeau Saint-Jean
- Jul 11, 2022
Come swell or high tide: minimizing the impact of marine energies on whales
Renewable energies are an interesting alternative to the means of electricity production involving fossil fuels or hazardous materials....
Camille Rondeau Saint-Jean
- Jul 4, 2022
The foes and floes of labelling aerial pictures manually
Labelling is the core of the work of biologists at Whale Seeker, but at first glance it seems like a childishly simple task: looking at a...
Camille Rondeau Saint-Jean
- Jun 20, 2022
40 Years of the whaling moratorium: lessons for the future of the oceans (1/2)
This summer marks the 40th anniversary of the adoption of a whaling moratorium by the International Whaling Commission. While annual...
Camille Rondeau Saint-Jean
- Jun 20, 2022
40 Years of the whaling moratorium: lessons for the future of the oceans (2/2)
Forty years after the International Whaling Commission's moratorium on whaling, what can we learn from the factors that led to this...
Camille Rondeau Saint-Jean
- Jun 14, 2022
Expert and algorithm: two inseparable sides of our AI solution!
The team at Whale Seeker developed Möbius, an algorithm developed in-house to identify whales in aerial images. Our clients send us the...
Bertrand Charry
- Jun 7, 2022
Why aerial imagery and AI are important for cetacean monitoring and conservation
Whales live in all our oceans and seas, from the high arctic to Antarctica and spend most of their time underwater. Monitoring whale...
Raina Fan
- May 13, 2022
Whales in Montreal remind us of our ocean connection and responsibility
What a week it’s been for whale lovers in Montréal. Over the last few days, not one but two juvenile minke whales arrived in the waters...
Raina Fan
- May 5, 2022
Beyond 30X30: meaningful management of marine protected areas
Governments, scientists, and economists all agree that we urgently need to step up our ocean conservation game – not only to combat...
Malcolm Kennedy
- Mar 30, 2022
Bringing blue carbon out to sea
In the wake of the latest installment of the IPCC Report, we here at Whale Seeker are reminded of the serious threat climate change poses...
Malcolm Kennedy
- Jan 20, 2022
SDG 14: why is ocean conservation so hard?
Readers of our blog will know by now that bridging the gap between what’s economical and what’s sustainable is our raison d’etre. And...
Malcolm Kennedy
- Nov 2, 2021
How can whales help us reach the goals of SDG 13?
In 2015, the UN agreed upon seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), addressing a wide range of social, economic and environmental...
Marcela Quintero Aguirre
- Oct 13, 2021
Cybersecurity as a critical component of building ethical AI startups
In the context of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Whale Seeker’s CEO Emily Charry Tissier and Troj.AI’s CEO James Stewart answer key...
Bertrand Charry
- Aug 18, 2021
Detecting whales from space: the development of a powerful monitoring tool!
In the past decade, the ability for satellites to collect images anywhere on Earth at a sub-meter resolution has opened new perspectives...
Malcolm Kennedy
- Aug 11, 2021
Widening the bottleneck: can citizen science accelerate conservation?
Ecological monitoring is a key part of any conservation work: if you don’t know what’s out there, you can’t protect it. But that’s...
Malcolm Kennedy
- Jul 13, 2021
Growing pains and gains: behind the scenes of scaling tech
They say that two's company, three's a crowd. But as it turns out, two developers can’t build a product on their own (a project, maybe —...
Nimara Asbah, Backer Kobaissi, Leila Gillespie-Cloutier
- Jun 15, 2021
Mapping out interest in saving whales
At Whale Seeker we believe in supporting the next generation's thought leaders. Through the Alan Shepard Residency Program, by District 3...
Sophia Beausoleil, Alicia Sosa Escalada, Emma Rodney
- Jun 10, 2021
Bridging the gap between wildlife protection and the carbon market
At Whale Seeker we believe in supporting the next generation's thought leaders. Through the Alan Shepard Residency Program, by District 3...
Bertrand Charry
- May 27, 2021
The economy of nature - where are we at?
With the intensification of natural disasters such as floods and droughts due to climate change, governments and corporations around the...
Malcolm Kennedy
- May 21, 2021
Ports: gateways to a sustainable economy
At Whale Seeker, we’re always interested in the value chain of maritime trade where environmental responsibility can enter — or already...
Malcolm Kennedy
- Apr 28, 2021
Precision = Truth ?
“How accurate is it?” is a pertinent question for new AI applications — but one that can be deceptively hard to answer. Why? Because the...
Becks Simpson
- Apr 14, 2021
The medical AI technique that can speed up aerial survey reporting
If you’re on this blog, you will have no doubt learned the importance of remote sensing methods like aerial surveying for monitoring...
Emily Charry Tissier
- Mar 16, 2021
Growing a company during a pandemic (while also being a human)
A year into the pandemic and we’ve learned a lot at Whale Seeker. None of us co-founders have created companies before so we can’t start...
Malcolm Kennedy
- Mar 12, 2021
Building experts into AI
One widespread concern over AI’s place in the future is that many, or even most, meaningful areas of human employment will be made...
Malcolm Kennedy
- Feb 26, 2021
Ethical AI starts with labeling
The importance of data (and lots of it) for AI is old news by now. What’s less well known, but becoming increasingly apparent, is that...
Malcolm Kennedy
- Jan 25, 2021
The carrot or the stick: how to encourage sustainability at sea
Photo by Lars Bo Nielsen on Unsplash Those of us who are interested in environmental causes often find ourselves asking, if we know what...
Emma Gillies
- Dec 22, 2020
A sentinel species in the north: what belugas can teach us about the world
Photo credit: Fisheries and Oceans Canada Belugas: the Arctic white whales are not only beloved for their amicable nature; they are also...
Malcolm Kennedy
- Dec 4, 2020
From sea to space: ways to monitor whales
As human impacts on whales become an increasingly critical issue, monitoring whales’ distributions and numbers are bound to be a key part...
Malcolm Kennedy
- Nov 5, 2020
The cost of killing a whale
Photo by Dick Martin on Unsplash Almost forty years after commercial whaling was halted, humans remain the leading cause of mortality for...
Malcolm Kennedy
- Oct 27, 2020
Can B Corp set a framework for ethical AI?
From steam engines to digital communication, the benefits of new technologies have often been concentrated with their creators and...
Becks Simpson
- Sep 9, 2020
Join us at the Montreal AI Symposium, 2020!
This year, Whale Seeker is going to MAIS 2020! Ok, so not ‘going’ in the traditional sense - actually presenting online but an...
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