Discovery Speaker Series

Name: Discovery Speaker Series
Start: 2025-12-04T18:30:00-08:00
End: 2025-12-04T19:45:00-08:00
Location: Discovery Speaker Series

December 4, 2025 6:30 PM –7:45 PM

Overview

Join Puget Sound Estuarium at the Olympia Timberland Library for our Discovery Speaker Series. Every 1st Thursday of the month we invite you to learn and stay informed about current environmental research or sustainability projects. You'll hear from Scientists, Educators, Artists, and Earth Advocates about their current work, research, or organization. Plus get your questions answered live after the talk!

About the presentation: Freeing ocean giants. Exploring the challenges and solutions of large whale entanglements through responses and research.

Large whale entanglements are a growing concern in most regions of the world and a leading cause of death for humpback whales along the US West Coast. During the presentation, we will discuss the current status of large whale entanglements, how the entanglement response network saves individual whales while collecting data necessary to prevent future entanglements, and Cascadia's research efforts to reduce the entanglement threat in Washington as well as the rest of the US West Coast.