Marine Mammal Educational Resources
from Alaska Sea Grant
Excerpts from Guide to Marine Mammals of Alaska
Whales, sea lions, seals, sea otters, polar bears! Learn about cetaceans, pinnipeds, and fissipeds—and how to identify Alaska's marine mammals.
See marine mammal skulls in QuickTime 3-D animation.
Arctic Science Journeys Radio stories
Arctic Science Journeys Radio (ASJ) s an award-winning radio program, producing stories about science, culture, and the environment of the far north that was aired from 1996 to 2005. ASJ was produced by Alaska Sea Grant at the University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. Below are links to stories about whales, sea otters, polar bears, walrus, seals, and sea lions.
Whale stories
- Big Oil, Big Whales, Big Trouble (2005)
- Killer Appetites (2005)
- Sneaky Cetaceans (2004)
- Beluga Café (2003)
- Orcas and Sea Lion Decline (2003)
- Tracking Right Whales (2003)
- Ultimate Whale Watching (2003)
- Gray Whale Chow Line—Closed? (2002)
- Wanted: Your Killer Whale Sightings (2002)
- Whale Count Results (2002)
- Right Whale Skeleton (2001)
- Whale Count (2001)
- Bowheads Feeding Less in Beaufort Sea (2000)
- Cook Inlet Belugas (2000)
- Gray Whale Comeback (2000)
- Orcas Give Boats Silent Treatment (2000)
- Beluga Whale Committee (1999)
- Tardy Gray Whales (1999)
- Beleaguered Belugas (1998)
- Dangerous Waters for Whales (1998)
- Orca Radio (1998)
- Sneaky Sperm Whales (1998)
- Bowhead Blowout (1997)
- Whale Migration (1997)
- Beluga Blues (1996)
- Harpoon Tips and Age of Bowhead Whales (1996)
- How Orcas Hunt (1996)
- Last of the AT-1 Orcas (1996)
- Right Whales Return (1996)
Sea otter stories
- Sea Otter Crash (2002)
- Sea Otters Rebound in Southeast Alaska (1999)
Polar bear stories
- Polar Bears Change Diet (2001)
- Polar Bear Pact (2000)
- Polar Bears in Peril (1998)
- Bucks for Bears (1997)
Walrus stories
- Wimpy Walrus (2002)
- Bubble Gum Walrus (2001)
- What Walrus Eat (2001)
- Walrus Numbers Decline (2000)
Seal stories
- Harbor Seal Decline (2005)
- Antarctic Seal Cam (2002)
- Elephant Seal Slumber (2002)
- Sorting Seals (2002)
- Seal Hounds (1999)
Sea lion stories
- Orcas and Sea Lion Decline (2003)
- California Sea Lions Venture North (2002)
- Kodiak's Steller Sea Lions (2002)
- Sea Lion Numbers Up (2002)
- Sea Lion Survival (2002)
- Steller Sea Lions Say Ahh for Science (2002)
- Industry Funds Sea Lion Science (2001)
- Pooper Scooper, collecting sea lion scat (2000)
- Popcorn of the Sea, pollock as part of sea lion diet (1998)
- Trawling for Answers to Sea Lion Declines (1997)
- Endangered Status Looms for Steller Sea Lions (1996)
Other marine mammal stories
- Natives Help Scientists, collecting samples from marine mammals (2003)
- Noisy Oceans, increase in noise may affect marine mammals (2003)
- Too Close for Comfort, restricting proximity to mammals (2002)
- Fossil Find, skull of Desmostylus, an early marine mammal (2000)
- More about Desmostylians (2000)
- Arctic Diet Risky, contaminants in marine mammals (1997)
