H ALIBUT HERALD

June 25, 2009

The Wonders of Whales

This is a zoomed in view of a life-size portrait of a 15-year-old male sperm whale. (Bryant Austin/Contributed
photo) An amateur photographer and former Monterey Bay Aquarium volunteer is giving the world a new view of
whales. And he's hoping through his photos to make the world safer for these gentle giants.
READ ON: http://montereybayaquarium.typepad.com/sea_notes/2009/06/the-wonders-of-whales.html
MARINE MAMMAL CONSERVATION THROUGH THE ARTS: http://mmcta.org/index.html

Look Into My Eyes…

They say the eyes are the window to
the soul, but the ones collected here
make you ponder whether they lead
straight to the stomach. Still, staring
back at you, they also show that
bloodthirsty can be beautiful.
Clockwise from top left: Crocodile;
Hawk, Shark, Cat
READ ON:
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com
/featured/look-into-my-eyes/12793
Turning Tide on Run of River Recycling Milk Cartons in
Last night, the Wilderness Committee Vancouver
attended a public meeting on Might I just say, how is it that we only organized this
the contentious Glacier Howser private in 2009? Milk cartons have always been recyclable,
power project in the West Kootenays. this should be available everywhere, especially at
The rally before the open house featured the grocery stores we buy milk at!
local politicians, First Nations, the Eco- READ ON:
Society, the Wilderness Committee, and http://www.encorp.ca/cfm/index.cfm?It=940&Id=
hundreds of people who wanted to keep 3&Se=39
BC's rivers wild and our power public. Over
1,100 attended to voice their opinion!
READ ON:
http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/4314-
turning-tide-on-run-of-river.html

Pricing Nature to Save It

Just some of what Canada's Boreal Forest does is said to be worth $77 billion.
READ ON:
http://thetyee.ca/News/2009/06/18/PricingNatureToSaveIt/?utm_source=mo
ndayheadlines&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=220609

Inspiring Vertical Gardens for Small Spaces Polar Bear Bookshelf by iBride
(as in e-breed or a French play-on-words for “hybrid”)

READ ON: Something for the new Arctic Canada exhibit? Expensive but
http://www.lowimpactliving.com/blog/2009/06/23/inspiring- sooo cool.
vertical-gardens-for-small-spaces/ READ ON: http://www.inhabitots.com/2009/06/24/polar-bear-
bookshelf-by-ibride/
DIY VERTICAL GARDEN:
http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to/video/how-to-grow-a-
vertical-garden-166965/view/
The Secret Life of Paper Informative &
short video to
3 Strategies to Get More Veggies from a Small help you make
Garden an informed
1. Interplanting opinion of our
2. Vertical gardening over
3. Succession planting consumption of
READ ON: http://life.gaiam.com/gaiam/p/3-Strategies-to-Get- paper.
More-Veggies-from-a-Small-Garden.html WATCH
VIDEO:
http://permacul
DIY Light Tube Lighting ture.org.au/200
Alternative 9/06/16/the-
WATCH VIDEO: secret-life-of-
http://greenupgrader.com/category/diy- paper/
green/
Cute Little Stinkers… Awesome Baby Cradle!
Born at Korea’s
Everland Zoo.
Thought this was a
good share since
these buggers are
found ‘wild’ all over
the West End ☺
READ ON:
http://www.zooborn
s.com/zooborns/200
9/06/funky-
skunkies.html

I know we have some new babies and expected babies around

here so I thought this would be appropriate to share with you!
Tadpole rain in Japan READ ON:
http://blogs.babble.com/droolicious/2009/06/24/baby-tender-
rocking-cradle/

Baby Dolphin Frolicks with Mom An Atlantic bottlenose

dolphin calf, born at
SeaWorld San Diego on
June 10, 2009, swims
alongside her 11-year-
old mother, Malibu.
Over the past few weeks, people in Japan READ ON:
have been witnessing tadpoles, fish and http://www.zooborns.c
frogs fall from the sky. Ever since the om/zooborns/2009/06/b
strange phenomenon was first observed in aby-dolphin-frolicks-
Ishikawa prefecture on June 4, reports of with-mom.html
animal rain have been pouring in from
prefectures across the country.
READ ON:
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2009/06/up
date-tadpole-rain-in-japan/

Dinosaurs May Have Been Smaller Than Previously Thought

The largest animals ever to have walked the face of the earth may not have been as big as
previously thought, reveals a paper published June 21 in the Zoological Society of London’s Journal
of Zoology.
READ ON: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090621195620.htm

World's First Log Flume

Ride Through a Crocodile
Enclosure Opens
Tuesday at Weymouth International Dark-Sky Association
Sea Life Aquarium Launches Project to Monitor Night
Crocodile-themed boats will ferry Skies
passengers through a newly The measurements will enable scientists to create models
developed sanctuary for rescued of unprecedented accuracy that can explore the effects of
caiman crocodiles. sky glow on wildlife and ecosystems. The models and
READ ON: measurements also will quantify the amount of energy
http://www.zandavisitor.com/new wasted by inefficient and unneeded lighting and will provide
sarticle-1624 estimates of an area's astronomical health.
READ ON: http://www.enn.com/press_releases/3012
 HOT DOG! Metro Vancouver
(Half-Eaten) Sustainable Transparency Initiative in the
Curbside Composting! Works
The Pacific-to-Plate initiative is built on a tagging system that provides
information on the fish bought from ocean to plate.

Sounds good in theory… but as consumers, do we have the drive or

Curbside pickup of food waste is coming to Metro Vancouver time to track each item? Will other, less conscious consumers turn
neighbourhoods as part of a new organics composting around and care? Will it even work? And if it does, is it cost effective?
program that aims to help cut the amount of garbage going to READ ON:
landfills. http://www.fis.com/fis/worldnews/worldnews.asp?l=e&country=&s
READ ON: pecial=&monthyear=&day=&id=32746&ndb=1&df=0
http://www.bclocalnews.com/news/49109516.html

http://www.vanaq
ua.org/home/shar
kwater-rsvp.html

On Another Note…
R.I.P. Michael Jackson (1958-2009)

Kermit the Turtle Had the Plastic Removed From His

Stomach and is Being Released By Virginia Aquarium

No matter the drama that encircled his life, no one can

deny his musical genius, dance moves & white glove.
Thriller was the first album I ever owned. That man
READ ON: http://www.zandavisitor.com/newsarticle-1663 taught me how to dance. – Emerald
Daisy (MMR’s Harbour Porpoise) Update
Daisy had a visitor a couple weeks
from Pacific Biodiversity Institute of
Winthrop, Washington. Aileen
Jeffries brought a CPOD (a type of
passive acoustic monitor) to the
Marine Mammal Rescue Center to
test its ability to detect harbour
porpoise. She used a separate
hydrophone that was recording at
the same time as the CPOD to
learn if the two instruments
measured the same thing.

Harbour porpoises do not vocalize

in the audible range like the
beluga. Instead, they use a high
frequency echolocation to detect
obstacles in their surroundings and
to locate fish. Humans hear best in
the range of 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz,
cycles per second, but porpoise
echolocation is in the range of 120
to 150 kHz.

Aileen is investigating the

possibility of using CPODS to
determine the presence of harbour porpoise in the wild. Harbour porpoise were once abundant in the Puget Sound,
and now they are rarely sighted south of Seattle. While Canada has identified the harbour porpoise a species of
concern and Washington has done the same, the U. S. Federal government has not yet made a listing decision.

Daisy was most cooperative. The loudest ultrasound came when Lindsaye brought the fish for lunch.
Archival Photo

Beluga Whale Medical, 1970’s

Library News
Get your up-to-the minutes news via RSS feed from the library’s What’s new pages. Currently, there are two
What’s new pages running a variety of interesting news feeds

What’s New – Animals and Nature – for news about birds, reptiles, marine mammals, and places such as the
Arctic http://aquanet.vanaqua.org/IS/CRS/Lib/Pages/WhatsNewAnimalsandNature.aspx

What’s New – Business and General – for news about business, finance, tourism, visitor experience and
marketing http://aquanet.vanaqua.org/IS/CRS/Lib/Pages/What%27sNewBGN.aspx

News on Environmental conservation and education will soon be available via the Conservation Current
http://aquanet.vanaqua.org/IS/CRS/Lib/ConservationCurrent/Pages/Default.aspx

Did you know that the Library has access to over 100 journals and magazines??
At least 80 of these are available full text online.
For a complete hyperlinked list, visit the library journals page on Aquanet:
http://aquanet.vanaqua.org/IS/CRS/Lib/Pages/Journals.aspx

As well, you can find new books and movies listed on this page of Aquanet:
http://aquanet.vanaqua.org/IS/CRS/Lib/Pages/LibraryCatalogue.aspx
Where: Delbrook Community Centre, North Vancouver
Where: Delta Town & Country Inn
Classified

For Sale: Used DVDs and video games

DVDs
Matrix Revolutions 2-Disc version
Superman Doomsday animated movie
Ultimate Avengers 2 animated movie
The Animatrix

Nintendo Gamecube games

Crash Bandicoot – The Wrath of Cortex
Spyro – Enter the Dragonfly
Def Jam Fight for NY
True Crime: New York City
Medal of Honor: Rising Sun
NBA Live 2005

The above are for sale at $7 each, if you buy 3 or more $5/piece
Also available:

Super Nintendo games ($4/each or 3 for $10)

Jim Power: The Lost Dimension in 3D SOLD
Mario’s Early Years: Fun With Letters SOLD
Battle Clash (Requires Superscope to play)

Nintendo Wii
*Brand New Copy* (Factory sealed):
ExciteBots Trick Racing - $40

If interested please contact Esther: esther.tong@vanaqua.org

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Events
We Could Be On This List for 2009!
Your help is needed: Employee Survey ☺
Your feedback will help to determine how we compare to other companies, and will provide us
with insight into the things that we should celebrate and the things that we need to change in
order to compete with the best and have an engaged Aquarium team.

All of the responses to the survey will be strictly confidential and your completed surveys will
be submitted directly to a third party.

This link below is unique to us and no one else will be able to access our survey through this
link. This survey is for BC based employees only so anyone outside of BC will not be
required to complete the survey.

The survey will take approximately 15 minutes to complete. Your results cannot be saved,
therefore please complete the survey in one sitting. Please submit your completed survey as
soon as possible but no later than July 10, 2009.

To access the Employee Survey online starting today, please

go to https://www.keysurvey.com/survey/258839/ba05/
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 2009 Audubon
Magazine
Photography
Awards:
Birds in Focus, created to
celebrate the beauty and
diversity of birdlife through the
art of photography, and to
honor the exceptional work of
talented professional, amateur
and youth photographers from
all over the U.S.

Audubon will be accepting

http://www.granvilleonline.ca/gr/events submissions online between
May 15-July 15 in three
categories: Professional,
Amateur, and Youth.
Photographers are encouraged
to reveal a new angle or
perspective in their work.
“Think creatively,” advises
Audubon’s design director
Kevin Fisher, one of the
judges. “Originality and drama
rank high at Audubon. Include
tight shots, such as close-ups
of eyes, feathers. We welcome
uncommon perspectives.”
LEARN MORE:
www.AudubonMagazinePhot
oAwards.com
 http://www.canadahelps.org/GivingPages/GivingPage.aspx?gpID=4311

http://www.focuschallenge.org/focus.html

If you or anyone here at the Vancouver Aquarium would be interested in making a donation (tax receipts available,
and 100% of your donation goes to those in need!), please please PLEASE do so! So far, I'm at $0 here at the
Aquarium :(

I've set up a CanadaHelps GivingPage where you can make donations towards the 2009 FOCUS Hike4Life
Challenge. The link is above, as well as a few other informative links as well.

And please remember that every little bit helps, and 100% of your contribution will go towards FOCUS to help those in
need! I will also be doing something special for all of those who have contributed towards this wonderful cause. I'm
not sure yet what this will be, but it could be along the lines of a large, high-quality photographic print, taken by yours
truly, from the Hike4Life expedition
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More exciting events here:
http://www.vanevo.ca/event
s01.html
Check out videos of past
lectures here:
http://www.sfu.ca/cstudies/
science/darwin.htm