Acknowledgements

The following friends or organizations are helping or have helped in terms of funding, material or logistics and/or moral support for the project.  The list is long and we stress that our thanks are in no particular order - our gratitude is equal to you all.

The Ellie Dorsey Fund
Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington, WA
Center for Whale Research, Friday Harbor, WA
The Whale Museum, Friday Harbor, WA
Center for Long-Term Research, Lincoln, MA
Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, CA
Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary
World Wildlife Fund
National Geographic Society
National Geographic Magazine
The Official California Seafood Restaurant  -  "Fish", Sausalito, CA
Bruce Stedman
Mark Anderson
Ken Balcomb
Rich Osborne
Tom Jones
Alan Baldridge
Flip Nicklin
Douglas Chadwick
Jeff Jacobsen
King Neptune
Uko Gorter for the contribution of the beautiful minke illustrations and finding other great minke resources