Our current Cetacean Research creates public awareness through ecology training, conservation outreach and in-field research.
By assisting to catalog species and create marine protected areas worldwide, Shark Team One is playing a key role in helping to protect a number of different cetacean species.
Our Coastal Southeast Florida Hope Spot initiative strives to protect migrating North Atlantic Right and Humpback whales, protecting them from habitat loss, ship strikes and the threat of offshore drilling and seismic testing.
In addition, expeditions to Dominica, the Florida Keys, Bimini, Bahamas and Bar Harbor, Maine are helping to train citizen scientists about fluke ID cataloging, whale and dolphin ecology, biology and environmental stressors to the cetaceans in those regions.
Behavioral studies, field essays and outreach initiatives help communities create a better understanding for the fragility of endangered species and help to create protective government policy.
Dominica in partnership with the government of Dominica:
Sperm whales
Cuvier's beaked whales
Coastal Southeast Florida Hope Spot species that we work to protect include:
Migrating humpback and northern right whales
Atlantic spotted dolphin
Bottlenose dolphin
Coastal New England and Gulf of Maine species we work to protect include:
North Atlantic Right whale
Humpback whale
Minke whale
Pygmy sperm whale
Finback whale
Short-finned pilot whale
Spinner dolphin
Atlantic white-sided dolphin
Harbor porpoise
Canadian Arctic:
Beluga
Narwhal
Bowhead whale
2017 Cetacean Research and Photography Expeditions include:
Bimini, Bahamas
Florida, Keys
Bar Harbor, Maine
2018 - Present - Shark Team One's "Eastern Caribbean Endangered Species Program - Conserving Sperm Whale Family Groups" in Dominica, West Indies
2019 - Present - Shark Team One's "Arctic Biodiversity Resilience Program" in the Canadian Arctic
Our Founder, Angela Smith has spent over 20 years documenting cetaceans worldwide. Her favorite area to work with whales and dolphins is in the Caribbean, where she spent 10 years living on the island Antigua. From that location and via the many private and research vessels she worked on, she was able to submit hundreds of sightings to assist research and conservation efforts.
More recently Shark Team One has obtained special permits to help document and conserve the sperm whales of Dominica, West Indies and is now also undertaking a new program in the Canadian Arctic.
Other cetacean organizations and government entities we support:
Allied Whale - College of the Atlantic - Maine
Wild Dolphin Project - Florida
CaribWhale - Caribbean
Government of Dominica Fisheries Department
By assisting to catalog species and create marine protected areas worldwide, Shark Team One is playing a key role in helping to protect a number of different cetacean species.
Our Coastal Southeast Florida Hope Spot initiative strives to protect migrating North Atlantic Right and Humpback whales, protecting them from habitat loss, ship strikes and the threat of offshore drilling and seismic testing.
In addition, expeditions to Dominica, the Florida Keys, Bimini, Bahamas and Bar Harbor, Maine are helping to train citizen scientists about fluke ID cataloging, whale and dolphin ecology, biology and environmental stressors to the cetaceans in those regions.
Behavioral studies, field essays and outreach initiatives help communities create a better understanding for the fragility of endangered species and help to create protective government policy.
Dominica in partnership with the government of Dominica:
Sperm whales
Cuvier's beaked whales
Coastal Southeast Florida Hope Spot species that we work to protect include:
Migrating humpback and northern right whales
Atlantic spotted dolphin
Bottlenose dolphin
Coastal New England and Gulf of Maine species we work to protect include:
North Atlantic Right whale
Humpback whale
Minke whale
Pygmy sperm whale
Finback whale
Short-finned pilot whale
Spinner dolphin
Atlantic white-sided dolphin
Harbor porpoise
Canadian Arctic:
Beluga
Narwhal
Bowhead whale
2017 Cetacean Research and Photography Expeditions include:
Bimini, Bahamas
Florida, Keys
Bar Harbor, Maine
2018 - Present - Shark Team One's "Eastern Caribbean Endangered Species Program - Conserving Sperm Whale Family Groups" in Dominica, West Indies
2019 - Present - Shark Team One's "Arctic Biodiversity Resilience Program" in the Canadian Arctic
Our Founder, Angela Smith has spent over 20 years documenting cetaceans worldwide. Her favorite area to work with whales and dolphins is in the Caribbean, where she spent 10 years living on the island Antigua. From that location and via the many private and research vessels she worked on, she was able to submit hundreds of sightings to assist research and conservation efforts.
More recently Shark Team One has obtained special permits to help document and conserve the sperm whales of Dominica, West Indies and is now also undertaking a new program in the Canadian Arctic.
Other cetacean organizations and government entities we support:
Allied Whale - College of the Atlantic - Maine
Wild Dolphin Project - Florida
CaribWhale - Caribbean
Government of Dominica Fisheries Department
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Bottlenose dolphin behavioral study sequence sample - Florida Keys
All images by Angela Smith and Shark Team One researchers and are protected by copyright and obtained under permit.