Friday, Nov. 7

11:00-2:00 pm       Registration/Information Table Open

11:00-6:00 pm       Students Marine Art Show

12:45-1:00 pm       Symposium Welcome

1:00-4:00 pm         Symposium - "From Here to There:  The amazing migrations of Marine Mammals 

                                   and sea birds"

   1:00-1:45               Carey Kuhn, Ph.D. "Flexible Foraging behavior: how fur seals and sea lions respond to   

                                                 environmental Variation"

   2:00-2:45               Craig Matkin  "Interception and predation of migrating gray whales by aggregations of killer 

                                                 whales in Western Alaska: the risk of predictable migratory pathways"

    3:00-3:45               Scott Shaffer, Ph.D.  "Have wings will travel:  around the pacific ocean with migrating sooty 

                                                 shearwaters"

11:00-6:00 pm       The Market at WhaleFest & The Market Café, Silent Auction

7:30 pm                 Friday Night Concert-Maritime Monthly Grind 

Saturday, Nov. 8

9:00 am                Registration WhaleFest 10K Run/5K Walk (Whale Park) 

10:00 am              WhaleFest 10K Run/5K Walk

9:00-11:30 am      Whale Watching Tour (Proceeds support WhaleFest)   

9:00-5:30 pm      The Market at WhaleFest & The Market Café, Silent Auction

10:00-5:00 pm      Students Marine Art Show 

11:30-4:00 pm      Registration/Information Table Open

1:00-4:00pm         Symposium - "Marine mammals and the changing arctic" 

                                                  (Underwritten in part by the Walt Cunningham Education Fund)

   1:00-1:45               Craig George  "A tough trip through (Frozen) Paradise"

   2:00-2:45               Bruce Mate, Ph.D.  "The Changing Range And Role Of Gray Whales"

   3:00-3:45               Robert Suydam  "Movement and Distribution of beluga whales with a focus on the eastern 

                                                 chukchi sea stock"

6:30 pm                Banquet with Keynote speaker, Russ Andrews, Ph.D.  "Using High-Tech Gizmos to Spy on Seals 

                                                 and Whales in Alaska:  An Attempt to Understand How Marine Mammals Cope with Changing 

                                                 Environments"

Sunday, Nov. 9

9:00-11:30 am       Whale Watching Tour (Proceeds support WhaleFest) 

10:00-2:00 pm       Registration/Information Table Open

11:00-4:30 pm       The Market at WhaleFest & The Market Café, Silent Auction

11:00-4:00 pm       Students Marine Art Show

1:00-4:00 pm         Symposium - "Fitting In:  How Migrating Seals and Whales Adapt To their 

                                     Surroundings"

   1:00-1:45                Alison Banks  "Northern Fur Seal Seasonal Movements And Foraging Strategies:  Consequences 

                                                 To Females And Their Pups"  

    2:00-2:45                Dan Crocker, Ph.D. "Foraging Ecology Of Northern Elephant Seals:  Physiology, Energetics, and 

                                                 Behavior"

    3:00-3:45                Mike Castellini, Ph.D.  "A Several Thousand Mile Migration For You without Eating Would Be 

                                                 Tough...But Is It Hard For A Whale Or A Seal?"

4:30-5:30 pm         Sea Chantey Concert- Don Sineti, chanteyman extraordinaire