An orca expert warns that federal budget cuts to science and research at NOAA could harm Southern Resident Killer Whale ...

An orca expert warns that federal budget cuts to science and research at NOAA could harm Southern Resident Killer Whale recovery.

"Everybody is devastated by this—nobody more so than me," said Brad Hanson, another NOAA whale expert who helped start the orca satellite tagging operation a decade ago and now oversees the program.

In 2023, Miller was awarded employee of the year for NOAA Fisheries in the western United States, and in March 2024, she was promoted. On Thursday afternoon, while on vacation in Hawaii ...

NOAA researchers said they are now concerned ... Hanson said the researchers were encouraged by the birth of the other orca, called J62, which was first spotted by observers on Dec. 30 and ...

In this photo provided by NOAA Fisheries, the orca known as J35 (Tahlequah) carries the carcass of her dead calf in the waters of Puget Sound off West Seattle, Wash., on Wednesday, Jan. 1 ...

The Center for Whale Research first became aware of the new calf, named J61, on Dec. 20 Maya Sears, NMFS/NOAA Permit 27052 Tahlequah, the killer whale who carried her dead calf and swam with him ...

This comes after she stepped away from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) after a 25-year ... and was one of its top voices on orca recovery. She played a key role in ...

In this photo provided by NOAA Fisheries, the orca known as J35 (Tahlequah) carries the carcass of her dead calf in the waters of Puget Sound off West Seattle, Wash., on Wednesday, Jan. 1 ...