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Trevor Branch

Associate professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences

Whales

206-221-0776 / tbranch@uw.edu

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Expertise: Large whales — especially blue whales — and also minke and humpback whales, including studies estimating abundance, changes in population size over time, maps of occurrence, status and the separation of subspecies


TREVOR BRANCH'S RECENT MENTIONS IN THE NEWS

  • With sea ice melting, killer whales are moving into the Arctic | Popular Science
  • Northwest research reveals some whales avoid detection from predators by keeping their songs reeaaal low | OPB
  • Where are baby blue whales? Scientists may have finally cracked the mystery | The Independent
  • Researcher may have solved mystery of ‘missing’ whale calves | Bellingham Herald
  • New study suggests blue whale calf-spotters 'have it all wrong' | Oceanographic Magazine

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TREVOR BRANCH'S RECENTLY TAGGED POSTS

  • WhaleVis turns more than a century of whaling data into an interactive map
  • More management measures lead to healthier fish populations
  • US seafood industry flounders due to COVID-19
  • Fisheries management is actually working, global analysis shows
  • Old fish few and far between under fishing pressure

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