INTERESTED IN WHALES? SEE OUR LONG TERM RESEARCH ON BOWHEADS

Interested in Whales? With anthropologist and Arctic Explorer John Bockstoce, I did research on Bowhead whales using logbooks from Yankee whaling ships hunting that species from 1849 to 1915. We learned each year how many whales were caught and how the bowhead whale population changed over that time. We also were able to compare where the Yankee whalers saw the sea ice southern edge in the 19th Century with modern observations. Go to

How Old Whaling Ships Logbooks Help Us Understand More About Climate Change. Research by Bockstoce and Botkin

Here is a photo John took of Arctic sea ice in recent years.