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Discover how Whale Seeker leverages its B Corp certification to ensure its AI solutions prioritize ethical and sustainable practices.

Discover how Whale Seeker combines field expertise and high-tech innovation to create real-time marine mammal detection tools.

How to create software that not only solves today’s challenges, but is flexible enough to adapt to tomorrow’s unknowns? At Whale Seeker,...

Image description: Aerial image featuring complex ice patterns, with a spotlight on a seal detected by Möbius. Photo credit : National...

Canada and the EU lead biodiversity efforts following UNESCO’s 2024 Ocean Report. Discover how Whale Seeker solutions can help!

The North Atlantic Right Whale (NARW) is one of the most endangered species in the world, with only a few hundred individuals remaining....

As we acknowledge the importance of conserving and safeguarding the marine environment, the absence of comprehensive laws and regulations...

At Whale Seeker, we are thrilled to announce a groundbreaking collaboration with WWF and other partners marking a significant step...

In a world where environmental challenges and conservation efforts increasingly intersect with cutting-edge technology, the partnership...

At the end of October, I had the privilege of attending the North Atlantic Right Whale Symposium’s annual meeting in Halifax, NS. The...

For the time being, this blog post is only available in French. Mise en contexte En vision par ordinateur, le choix du type d’annotation...

In a world increasingly reliant on AI and automation, you might wonder why anyone would spend countless hours manually scouring aerial...

The world of artificial intelligence has, without a doubt, reshaped how we live and work. But with great power comes great...

‍Emerging from what has been entitled the "Climate Wars" Australia is beginning to finally see top-down change. This week, the new...

It’s clear that decarbonising the global economy to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 is a key priority for countries around the world....

When we tell people about Whale Seeker, they’re often surprised to hear that we’re a for-profit company. It begs the question: when it...

Recently, we were approached about monitoring seals from aerial images using machine learning. As the name Whale Seeker suggests, our...

We saw in the last post that biologists need to be more creative in tracking and understanding whales, and that the unique...

We saw in the last post that whales are particularly difficult animals to study, and that biologists have been very creative to find ways...

Whales play a central ecological role in marine ecosystems. Why then are they so difficult to protect, despite the affection of the...

Renewable energies are an interesting alternative to the means of electricity production involving fossil fuels or hazardous materials....

Labelling is the core of the work of biologists at Whale Seeker, but at first glance it seems like a childishly simple task: looking at a...

This summer marks the 40th anniversary of the adoption of a whaling moratorium by the International Whaling Commission. While annual...

Forty years after the International Whaling Commission's moratorium on whaling, what can we learn from the factors that led to this...

The team at Whale Seeker developed Möbius, an algorithm developed in-house to identify whales in aerial images. Our clients send us the...

Whales live in all our oceans and seas, from the high arctic to Antarctica and spend most of their time underwater. Monitoring whale...

What a week it’s been for whale lovers in Montréal. Over the last few days, not one but two juvenile minke whales arrived in the waters...

Governments, scientists, and economists all agree that we urgently need to step up our ocean conservation game – not only to combat...

In the wake of the latest installment of the IPCC Report, we here at Whale Seeker are reminded of the serious threat climate change poses...

Readers of our blog will know by now that bridging the gap between what’s economical and what’s sustainable is our raison d’etre. And...

In 2015, the UN agreed upon seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), addressing a wide range of social, economic and environmental...

In the context of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Whale Seeker’s CEO Emily Charry Tissier and Troj.AI’s CEO James Stewart answer key...

In the past decade, the ability for satellites to collect images anywhere on Earth at a sub-meter resolution has opened new perspectives...

Ecological monitoring is a key part of any conservation work: if you don’t know what’s out there, you can’t protect it. But that’s...

They say that two's company, three's a crowd. But as it turns out, two developers can’t build a product on their own (a project, maybe —...

At Whale Seeker we believe in supporting the next generation's thought leaders. Through the Alan Shepard Residency Program, by District 3...

At Whale Seeker we believe in supporting the next generation's thought leaders. Through the Alan Shepard Residency Program, by District 3...

With the intensification of natural disasters such as floods and droughts due to climate change, governments and corporations around the...

At Whale Seeker, we’re always interested in the value chain of maritime trade where environmental responsibility can enter — or already...

“How accurate is it?” is a pertinent question for new AI applications — but one that can be deceptively hard to answer. Why? Because the...

If you’re on this blog, you will have no doubt learned the importance of remote sensing methods like aerial surveying for monitoring...

A year into the pandemic and we’ve learned a lot at Whale Seeker. None of us co-founders have created companies before so we can’t start...

One widespread concern over AI’s place in the future is that many, or even most, meaningful areas of human employment will be made...

The importance of data (and lots of it) for AI is old news by now. What’s less well known, but becoming increasingly apparent, is that...

Photo by Lars Bo Nielsen on Unsplash Those of us who are interested in environmental causes often find ourselves asking, if we know what...

Photo credit:  Fisheries and Oceans Canada Belugas: the Arctic white whales are not only beloved for their amicable nature; they are also...

As human impacts on whales become an increasingly critical issue, monitoring whales’ distributions and numbers are bound to be a key part...

Photo by Dick Martin on Unsplash Almost forty years after commercial whaling was halted, humans remain the leading cause of mortality for...

From steam engines to digital communication, the benefits of new technologies have often been concentrated with their creators and...

This year, Whale Seeker is going to MAIS 2020! Ok, so not ‘going’ in the traditional sense - actually presenting online but an...