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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
Nov 1, 20223 min read


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
Oct 11, 20223 min read


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...

Camille Rondeau Saint-Jean
Sep 2, 20223 min read


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 11, 20223 min read


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
Jul 4, 20223 min read


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, 20222 min read


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 20, 20223 min read


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...

Camille Rondeau Saint-Jean
Jun 14, 20223 min read


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...

Bertrand Charry
Jun 7, 20223 min read


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 13, 20222 min read


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...

Raina Fan
May 5, 20223 min read


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
Mar 30, 20222 min read


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
Jan 20, 20223 min read


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...

Malcolm Kennedy
Nov 2, 20212 min read


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...

Marcela Quintero Aguirre
Oct 13, 20214 min read


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...

Bertrand Charry
Aug 18, 20213 min read


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
Aug 11, 20213 min read


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 —...

Malcolm Kennedy
Jul 13, 20213 min read


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...

Nimara Asbah, Backer Kobaissi, Leila Gillespie-Cloutier
Jun 15, 20214 min read


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...

Sophia Beausoleil, Alicia Sosa Escalada, Emma Rodney
Jun 10, 20214 min read
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