The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society invites you to explore historical and contemporary aspects of human interactions with whales with leading maritime historians, marine biologists, research scientists and whaling historians. This five-part series includes a "Then and Now" format, encouraging us to travel from the days of whaling under sail to the current practice of watching from motorized vessels.
February 4 - April 1, 2009
New Bedford Whaling Museum Theater at 6:30 p.m.
Light refreshments
Registration is not required
Museum members free
$5 for non-members
Visit www.whalingmuseum.org for more information
Man and Whales: Changing Views Through Time is sponsored by Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations (ECHO) - a program of the U.S. Department of Education, the New Bedford Whaling Museum and the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society.
Whaling to Watching
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Mike Dyer, NBWM Maritime Curator, presents
Cross-cultural perspectives:
1690-1935 and whaling around the world.
Regina Asmutis-Silvia, Senior Biologist of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, reviews whale management initiatives, conservation policies and the whale-watching industry.
Who They Are
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Whaling Historian Judy Lund highlights a group of whaling captains, their lives and families and how whaling impacted their lives.
Philip Hamilton, a Research Scientist with the New England Aquarium¹s Edgerton Research Lab, connects us to the remaining North Atlantic right whales and the stories of this enigmatic and highly endangered species.
Whale-Hunter and Whale Songs
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Stuart Frank, Senior Curator at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, and Mary Malloy, Professor of Maritime Studies at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole and member of Museum Studies faculty at Harvard University, discuss and perform authentic shipboard songs of the 19th century.
Leila Hatch, Regional Marine Bioacoustic Coordinator at the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary shares the sounds that most cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises) make and discuss what functions they might have evolved to serve in these animals' lives.
Flensing / Rendering
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Rob Ellis, former Curator, and Gare Reid, former Deputy Director at the Kendall Whaling Museum, share their direct and historical knowledge of recovering samples from beached whales and Œtrying out¹ whale blubber.
Michael Moore, Senior Research Specialist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, explains how and why dead whales are critical sources of information.
Right Whales
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Mike Dyer, NBWM Maritime Curator, focuses on historical references to hunting the North Atlantic Right Whale, listed as the most endangered of all the great whales.
Scott Kraus, Director of the Edgerton Research Laboratory at the New England Aquarium, and co-editor of ³The Urban Whale: North Atlantic Right Whales at the Crossroads,² highlights the challenges faced by a whale species that has continual interactions with the human species.
