QENTOL, YEN featured in article by Simon Fraser University

The QENTOL, YEN / W̱SÁNEĆ Marine Guardians have recently been featured in an article by SFU announcing their partnership to capture critical data and help protect the endangered South Island Resident Killer Whales (SRKW).

Known as the Humans and Algorithms Listening and Looking for Orcas (HALLO) project, a team of researchers led by professor Ruth Joy is developing statistical models to protect marine wildlife—and spent the past summer securing new data.

Their current model can predict when and where pods of the endangered SRKW are likely to move through the commercial shipping lanes that crisscross the Salish Sea—an effort to mitigate ship strikes between marine vessels and the 73 remaining members of the SRKW.

Click below to read SFU’s article.