Annette Harnish

We are planning a ~2-week field effort off Lāna‘i in July, starting ~July 6th. This will be our first field effort off Lāna‘i since December 2020 and our first mid-summer field effort there. Why Lāna‘i? The area west and southwest of the island is the best accessible location around the main Hawaiian Islands to encounter Cluster 4 … Read more

We are planning a field effort off Kona starting October 28th or 29th and going through November 16th or 17th. We have two primary goals for this project. With funding from the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, we hope to find and work with false killer whales (from both the endangered resident population and the … Read more

We have a 2-week field project off of Kona starting November 2nd. Although our primary goals for the project involve working with false killer whales, both pelagic and insular, we’ll be working with all species of odontocetes we encounter, using a variety of methods (photo-ID, biopsy sampling, drone photogrammetry, and satellite tagging) to learn more … Read more

We will be undertaking a field project off the island of Kaua‘i starting on July 31st. This will be our 13th year of working off the island since our first trip here in 2003, and our 18th field project off Kaua‘i (our last off Kaua‘i was in February 2020). This project is funded by U.S. Pacific … Read more

In December 2020 we are undertaking a 16-day field effort in the Maui Nui region, in collaboration with the Scripps Acoustic Ecology Laboratory and the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center. This is our ninth year of field work in the Maui Nui area since this research effort started there in 2000, and the fourth time we’ve been based off the … Read more

While our field projects are normally undertaken during two- to three-week periods where we go out on the water every day, this summer we are trying a new option that has been made possible with the support of Captain Zodiac, a tour company based in Kona that has been contributing photos to our projects for a … Read more

Cascadia Research will be undertaking a field project off the island of Kaua‘i starting on February 6th. This will be the start of the 21st year of our Hawaiʻi research effort, our 12th year of working off the island since our first trip here in 2003, and our 17th field project off Kaua‘i (our last … Read more

We’ll be undertaking a field project off the island of Hawaiʻi from October 28 through November 10, 2019, our second project off the island this year. This project is funded by a contract from the Northwest Fisheries Science Center and by a grant from the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center. We have two main goals for this effort: … Read more