SEALIFE
Response
Assisting animals entangled in marine debris, victims of ship strikes, and stranded or injured animals on or near shore
Rehabilitation
Wildlife rehabilitation helps us monitor environmental and human health while saving endangered species. It also provides direct benefit to the welfare of individual animals.
Research
Building scientific understanding and training future generations to protect, restore and conserve our region's unique ecosystems while improving human community health
SR3 and Vancouver Aquarium team members remove a packing strap from the neck of a Steller sea lion. Disentanglement activities help to identify dangerous debris and keep it out of the water.
Creating Washington’s first marine wildlife hospital to care for native species including seals, sea lions, porpoises, puffins, and more. (Photo credit: Vancouver Aquarium)
SR3’s Dr. Holly Fearnbach launches a drone to measure growth and body condition of endangered Southern Resident killer whales as part of a joint NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center and Vancouver Aquarium project. (Photo credit: Sara Hyong Shimazu)
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Veterinary nurse Casey Mclean treats a cold-stunned sea turtle
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For the second year in a row, Dr. Fearnbach and her colleagues are evaluating cetaceans off the coast of San Diego.
There is a high level of concern about the health of a young Southern Resident killer whale, J50, who has been documented to be in very poor body condition in recent months.
SR3's Marine Mammal Research Director, Dr. Holly Fearnbach, and her NOAA colleague Dr. John Durban, have succeeded in capturing overhead images of ailing Southern Resident killer whale youngster J50, during their emergency field effort to assess her condition.
While in the San Juan Islands, Dr. Fearnbach and her colleagues collected data on 3 large whale species as part of an ongoing nutritional health study. Gray, humpback, and minke whales all made an appearance!
Dr. Fearnbach and colleagues got great images of Bigg’s killer whales during their May health assessment of whale populations in the San Juan Islands.
Emaciated elephant seal pup receives critical medical care in SR3 marine wildlife ambulance during transport to San Juan Island.
Dr. Fearnbach checks in from the San Juan Islands during this season’s health assessments on the critically endangered Southern Resident killer whales on National Endangered Species Day!
A two day mission to help a young entangled gray whale began last Tuesday after a report from a commercial fisherman.
Do you think you're punny? Not punny, but love a good laugh? Come out to our Pun-Slam fundraiser!
Interested in learning more about marine mammals?
Join this special session of the annual meeting of the Washington chapter of the Wildlife Society and the Society for NW Vertebrate Biology!