{"id":3423,"date":"2016-03-16T15:27:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T22:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/?p=3423"},"modified":"2016-03-16T15:27:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T22:27:42","slug":"whale-watch-week-at-the-oregon-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/2016\/03\/16\/whale-watch-week-at-the-oregon-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Whale Watch Week at the Oregon Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWPORT &#8211; Spring Break is Whale Watch Week on the Oregon Coast, and our Visitor Center at the Hatfield Marine Science Center is a great place to learn about the gray whale migration (and get in out of the cold).<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be open from 10 am to 4 pm daily with marine mammal presentations at 1:30 pm, updated statistics about whale sightings off the Oregon coast, marine mammal-themed films, children&#8217;s activities and more!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Learn more:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Download our free publications, <a href=\"http:\/\/seagrant.oregonstate.edu\/sites\/seagrant.oregonstate.edu\/files\/sgpubs\/onlinepubs\/g05002.pdf\">Gray Whales<\/a> (also <a href=\"http:\/\/seagrant.oregonstate.edu\/files\/sgpubs\/onlinepubs\/i05001.pdf\">available in Spanish<\/a>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/seagrant.oregonstate.edu\/files\/sgpubs\/onlinepubs\/g98006.pdf\">Watching Whales)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Read how Leigh Torres, Sea Grant Extension marine mammal specialist and whale researcher with the OSU Marine Mammal Institute, is studying gray whale foraging behavior of Oregon&#8217;s &#8220;resident&#8221; whales: <a href=\"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/ua\/ncs\/archives\/2015\/aug\/researchers-studying-oregon%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cresident-population%E2%80%9D-gray-whales\">2015 article from OSU News &amp; Research Communications<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/files\/2016\/03\/whale-watch-spring2016.pdf\">Download a .pdf flyer<\/a> about the Visitor Center&#8217;s Whale Watch Week activities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWPORT &#8211; Spring Break is Whale Watch Week on the Oregon Coast, and our Visitor Center at the Hatfield Marine Science Center is a great place to learn about the gray whale migration (and get in out of the cold). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/2016\/03\/16\/whale-watch-week-at-the-oregon-coast\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1223976],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oregon-sea-grant"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p64BdL-Td","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3425,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423\/revisions\/3425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}