{"id":74,"date":"2007-11-07T11:47:40","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T18:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seagrant.oregonstate.edu\/blogs\/bw\/2007\/11\/07\/whale-watching-volunteers-sought\/"},"modified":"2007-11-07T11:47:40","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T18:47:40","slug":"whale-watching-volunteers-sought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/2007\/11\/07\/whale-watching-volunteers-sought\/","title":{"rendered":"Whale watching volunteers sought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seagrant.oregonstate.edu\/blogs\/bw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/whale_watch_07_.jpg\" title=\"Surf scoters and breeching gray whale\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seagrant.oregonstate.edu\/blogs\/bw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/whale_watch_07_.jpg\" alt=\"Surf scoters and breeching gray whale\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a>People come to Oregon from all over the United States each year to learn about &#8211; and try to spot &#8211; the gray whales that migrate past our coast. Now&#8217;s your chance to join the host of volunteers who take up stations at prime whale-watching spots each winter and spring to teach people about these majestic marine mammals.<\/p>\n<p>Oregon Sea Grant, the OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center and Oregon State Parks and Recreation team up Nov. 17-18 to offer training for volunteers in the Winter Whale Watch Week &#8220;Whale Spoken Here&#8221; program. Dr. Bruce Mate, OSU marine mammal specialist, and John Calambokidis, research biologist and co-founder of Cascadia Research, will lead the Newport training.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-registration is required; sign up through <a href=\"http:\/\/whalespoken.org\/\" title=\"Whale Spoken Here\" target=\"_blank\">Whale Spoken Here<\/a>, the Oregon State Parks &amp; Recreation whale-watching site.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s Winter Whale Watch Week is Dec. 26-Jan. 1.<\/p>\n<p>(Additional training will be offered in January and February for those interested in volunteering for the Spring Whale Watch Week, March 22-29, 2008).<\/p>\n<p>(photo of surf scoters and breeching gray whale courtesy of the Oregon State Parks Whale Watching Center, Depoe Bay)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People come to Oregon from all over the United States each year to learn about &#8211; and try to spot &#8211; the gray whales that migrate past our coast. Now&#8217;s your chance to join the host of volunteers who take &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/2007\/11\/07\/whale-watching-volunteers-sought\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[537,513,1223965,1223981,1223982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courses-classes-and-workshops","category-marine-mammals","category-news","category-science-education","category-whales"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p64BdL-1c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","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=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}