Whale Tales February 15, 2014

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Whale Tales February 15, 2014

10:00 – 10:15 am Welcome and Blessing 10:15 – 10:45 am “Whale Love,” Flip Nicklin and Jason Sturgis, Whale Trust Maui 10:45 – 11:30 am “Whales We Have Known Through Film,” Howard and Michele Hall, Howard Hall Productions 11:30 – 11:45 am Sacred Hearts Whale Song Lunch Presentations 11:45 – 1:00 pm “The Art of Humpback Whales,” Marty Wolff and Douglas Hoffman 1:00 – 1:45 pm “Whales: An Aerial Perspective,” James Darling, Ph.D., Whale Trust Maui 1:45 – 2:30 pm “The Resilient Whale,” Phil Clapham, Ph.D., National Marine Mammal Laboratory 2:30 – 2:45 pm Break 2:45 – 3:30 pm “Alaska’s Bubble Hunting Humpbacks,” Fred Sharpe, Ph.D., Alaska Whale Foundation 3:30 – 4:00 pm “Leaping High to Dive Deep,” Rachel Cartwright, Ph.D., The Keiki Kohola Project

Whale Tales February 15, 2014 is turning out to be a fantastic educational experience. Marine mammal experts from across the globe are here.

12:015 PM HST Awesome photos presented by Marty Wolf now along with Doug Hoffman. Doug is talking about his experiences in Tonga.

12:29 PM HST Marty is talking about his photos

2:45PM HST Phil Clapman  multimedia presentation concluded

10 minute break

4:45PM have been capturing HD video for all day and Whale Tales February 15, 2014 has concluded

Phil Clapham, Ph.D., National Marine Mammal Laboratory

Phil Clapham directs the Cetacean Assessment and Ecology Program at the National Marine Mammal Laboratory in Seattle. Phil oversees the lab’s work on all cetaceans, but his primary research interests relate to population biology, behavioral ecology and conservation management of large whales.

 

Marty Wolff

 

A fine art and marine photographer, Marty is a resident of Maui. His creations can be found in galleries and shops throughout the Hawaiian Islands. Published in newspapers, books & magazines, he is also the exclusive photographer for Maui WhaleWatch Magazine.

Douglas Hoffman

A Maui based photographer, Douglas Hoffman’s black and white Humpback & Sperm Whale portraiture has received international acclaim. His work can be found in galleries, books & museums. For the last decade, he has led dozens of photographic whale expeditions to Tonga.

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In 1995 At Maui High Performance Computing Center The Maui Scientific Analysis & Visualization of the Environment Program was first incubated. I was the principal investigator of this independant research project which was a joint development between MHPCC, Silicon Graphics Computers (SGI) & NKO.ORG. Using SGI Cosmo Worlds software, we pioneered the development of Internet based 3D virtual reality GIS based interactive worlds. In 1996 with a network of seven high performance SGI workstations we pioneered development of live streaming MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Real Video and QuickTime Streaming Server utilizing Kassenna MediaBase software. In Maui 2002 we pioneered and tested the first wireless live streaming video using laptop computers and Maui Sky Fiber's portable 3G wireless device. In Maui we pioneered live streaming video using usb modems from AT&T , Verizon as well as live streaming from iPhone 3 over 3G wireless networks. Today The Maui S.A.V.E. Program has diversified into storm tracking including visualization and analysis of large, memory-intensive gridded data sets such as the National Hurricane Center's wind speed probabilities. I volunteer my services to numerous Disaster Services Organizations. In June 2013 I returned from Hurricane Sandy deployment as a computer operations service associate with the Disaster Services Technology Group assisting as The American Red Cross migrated from a Disaster Response Operation to Long Term Recovery Operations. Pioneering the production/editing and Internet distribution of HD video to sites like Youtube.com and Vimeo.com we are shining the light towards environmental and peace efforts of humans across the globe. Since 1992 I have held the vision of establishing Maui, Hawaii as the environmental sciences center of the world. After His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet came to Maui This vision has expanded to establishing Maui as the environmental & peace center of the world.

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