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Antarctic Conservation: How Climate and AI Are Reshaping Wildlife Protection
How is climate impacting Antarctic conservation? Bertrand Charry shares insights on AI, penguins, and policy-driven solutions.
Bertrand Charry
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Antarctic Conservation: How Climate and AI Are Reshaping Wildlife Protection
How is climate impacting Antarctic conservation? Bertrand Charry shares insights on AI, penguins, and policy-driven solutions.
Bertrand Charry
Mar 10


Celebrating B Corporation Month: How Technology is Transforming Conservation
Discover how AI and sustainable technology are shaping the future of conservation.
Christine Fürthaller
Mar 5

A Hierarchical Approach to Reducing Offshore Projects Impact on Marine Mammals
Avoid, minimize, restore, compensate—how offshore industries can reduce their impact on marine mammals using the mitigation hierarchy.
Christine Fürthaller
Feb 25

The Challenges of Annotating Satellite Images for Whale Monitoring—and Why AI is Key.
Discover how AI-powered satellite imagery enhances marine mammal detection, improving accuracy & efficiency for global conservation.
Felicity Johnson
Feb 6

What is the B Corp Certification and How Does it Shape Whale Seeker’s Ethical AI Mission?
Discover how Whale Seeker leverages its B Corp certification to ensure its AI solutions prioritize ethical and sustainable practices.
Christine Fürthaller
Oct 21, 2024


Behind the Scenes with Whale Seeker: How Fieldwork Fuels Innovation
Discover how Whale Seeker combines field expertise and high-tech innovation to create real-time marine mammal detection tools.
Whale Seeker
Sep 17, 2024


Developing scalable and resilient software solutions in a field with evolving data standardization
How to create software that not only solves today’s challenges, but is flexible enough to adapt to tomorrow’s unknowns? At Whale Seeker,...
Chloé Benko-Prieur
Sep 9, 2024

Building Better AI: The Importance of Data Quality in Marine Mammal Detection
Image description: Aerial image featuring complex ice patterns, with a spotlight on a seal detected by Möbius. Photo credit : National...
Whale Seeker
Aug 15, 2024

Protecting Our Oceans: How Whale Seeker Can Support Canada’s 2030 Nature Strategy and the EU Biodiversity Strategy
Canada and the EU lead biodiversity efforts following UNESCO’s 2024 Ocean Report. Discover how Whale Seeker solutions can help!
Christine Fürthaller
Jun 26, 2024


Safeguarding the Giants: Harnessing Technologies to Protect North Atlantic Right Whales
The North Atlantic Right Whale (NARW) is one of the most endangered species in the world, with only a few hundred individuals remaining....
Arnaud Pourchez
May 1, 2024

Understanding New Marine Protection Laws: A Game-Changer for Ocean Conservation
As we acknowledge the importance of conserving and safeguarding the marine environment, the absence of comprehensive laws and regulations...
Bertrand Charry
Apr 30, 2024

Techniques for monitoring whale migration from space
At Whale Seeker, we are thrilled to announce a groundbreaking collaboration with WWF and other partners marking a significant step...
Christine Fürthaller
Mar 11, 2024

Unleashing AI Precision in Penguin Monitoring with Whale Seeker and Oceanites
In a world where environmental challenges and conservation efforts increasingly intersect with cutting-edge technology, the partnership...
Christine Fürthaller
Feb 15, 2024

All hands on deck: protecting the North Atlantic right whale
At the end of October, I had the privilege of attending the North Atlantic Right Whale Symposium’s annual meeting in Halifax, NS. The...
Malcolm Kennedy
Nov 9, 2023

The Annotation Solution that Checks Every Box for Marine Mammal Detection
In a world increasingly reliant on AI and automation, you might wonder why anyone would spend countless hours manually scouring aerial...
Whale Seeker
Oct 18, 2023


Shaping AI ethics: UNESCO’s fresh insights and Whale Seeker’s solutions
The world of artificial intelligence has, without a doubt, reshaped how we live and work. But with great power comes great...
Christine Fürthaller
Sep 12, 2023

New environmental and climate legislation for Australia: A Sea of opportunity?
Emerging from what has been entitled the "Climate Wars" Australia is beginning to finally see top-down change. This week, the new...
Careena Nolan
Dec 20, 2022


Balancing our sdgs: the challenge of wind power and life below water
It’s clear that decarbonising the global economy to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 is a key priority for countries around the world....
Kate Arnautovic
Dec 2, 2022

Why we’re not a non-profit
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...
Malcolm Kennedy and Raina Fan
Nov 8, 2022


Machine learning and noisy labels in seals
Recently, we were approached about monitoring seals from aerial images using machine learning. As the name Whale Seeker suggests, our...
Antoine Gagné
Nov 3, 2022

The study and protection of whales: a colossal challenge (3/3)
We saw in the last post that biologists need to be more creative in tracking and understanding whales, and that the unique...
Camille Rondeau Saint-Jean
Nov 1, 2022


The study and protection of whales: a colossal challenge (2/3)
We saw in the last post that whales are particularly difficult animals to study, and that biologists have been very creative to find ways...
Camille Rondeau Saint-Jean
Oct 11, 2022


The study and protection of whales: a colossal challenge (1/3)
Whales play a central ecological role in marine ecosystems. Why then are they so difficult to protect, despite the affection of the...
Camille Rondeau Saint-Jean
Sep 2, 2022


Come swell or high tide: minimizing the impact of marine energies on whales
Renewable energies are an interesting alternative to the means of electricity production involving fossil fuels or hazardous materials....
Camille Rondeau Saint-Jean
Jul 11, 2022


The foes and floes of labelling aerial pictures manually
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...
Camille Rondeau Saint-Jean
Jul 4, 2022


40 Years of the whaling moratorium: lessons for the future of the oceans (1/2)
This summer marks the 40th anniversary of the adoption of a whaling moratorium by the International Whaling Commission. While annual...
Camille Rondeau Saint-Jean
Jun 20, 2022

40 Years of the whaling moratorium: lessons for the future of the oceans (2/2)
Forty years after the International Whaling Commission's moratorium on whaling, what can we learn from the factors that led to this...
Camille Rondeau Saint-Jean
Jun 20, 2022


Expert and algorithm: two inseparable sides of our AI solution!
The team at Whale Seeker developed Möbius, an algorithm developed in-house to identify whales in aerial images. Our clients send us the...
Camille Rondeau Saint-Jean
Jun 14, 2022

Why aerial imagery and AI are important for cetacean monitoring and conservation
Whales live in all our oceans and seas, from the high arctic to Antarctica and spend most of their time underwater. Monitoring whale...
Bertrand Charry
Jun 7, 2022


Whales in Montreal remind us of our ocean connection and responsibility
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...
Raina Fan
May 13, 2022


Beyond 30X30: meaningful management of marine protected areas
Governments, scientists, and economists all agree that we urgently need to step up our ocean conservation game – not only to combat...
Raina Fan
May 5, 2022

Bringing blue carbon out to sea
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...
Malcolm Kennedy
Mar 30, 2022


SDG 14: why is ocean conservation so hard?
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...
Malcolm Kennedy
Jan 20, 2022


How can whales help us reach the goals of SDG 13?
In 2015, the UN agreed upon seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), addressing a wide range of social, economic and environmental...
Malcolm Kennedy
Nov 2, 2021


Cybersecurity as a critical component of building ethical AI startups
In the context of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Whale Seeker’s CEO Emily Charry Tissier and Troj.AI’s CEO James Stewart answer key...
Marcela Quintero Aguirre
Oct 13, 2021


Detecting whales from space: the development of a powerful monitoring tool!
In the past decade, the ability for satellites to collect images anywhere on Earth at a sub-meter resolution has opened new perspectives...
Bertrand Charry
Aug 18, 2021


Widening the bottleneck: can citizen science accelerate conservation?
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...
Malcolm Kennedy
Aug 11, 2021


Growing pains and gains: behind the scenes of scaling tech
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 —...
Malcolm Kennedy
Jul 13, 2021

Mapping out interest in saving whales
At Whale Seeker we believe in supporting the next generation's thought leaders. Through the Alan Shepard Residency Program, by District 3...
Nimara Asbah, Backer Kobaissi, Leila Gillespie-Cloutier
Jun 15, 2021

Bridging the gap between wildlife protection and the carbon market
At Whale Seeker we believe in supporting the next generation's thought leaders. Through the Alan Shepard Residency Program, by District 3...
Sophia Beausoleil, Alicia Sosa Escalada, Emma Rodney
Jun 10, 2021

The economy of nature - where are we at?
With the intensification of natural disasters such as floods and droughts due to climate change, governments and corporations around the...
Bertrand Charry
May 27, 2021


Ports: gateways to a sustainable economy
At Whale Seeker, we’re always interested in the value chain of maritime trade where environmental responsibility can enter — or already...
Malcolm Kennedy
May 21, 2021


Precision = Truth ?
“How accurate is it?” is a pertinent question for new AI applications — but one that can be deceptively hard to answer. Why? Because the...
Malcolm Kennedy
Apr 28, 2021


The medical AI technique that can speed up aerial survey reporting
If you’re on this blog, you will have no doubt learned the importance of remote sensing methods like aerial surveying for monitoring...
Becks Simpson
Apr 14, 2021


Growing a company during a pandemic (while also being a human)
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...
Emily Charry Tissier
Mar 16, 2021

Building experts into AI
One widespread concern over AI’s place in the future is that many, or even most, meaningful areas of human employment will be made...
Malcolm Kennedy
Mar 12, 2021


Ethical AI starts with labeling
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...
Malcolm Kennedy
Feb 26, 2021


The carrot or the stick: how to encourage sustainability at sea
Photo by Lars Bo Nielsen on Unsplash Those of us who are interested in environmental causes often find ourselves asking, if we know what...
Malcolm Kennedy
Jan 25, 2021


A sentinel species in the north: what belugas can teach us about the world
Photo credit: Fisheries and Oceans Canada Belugas: the Arctic white whales are not only beloved for their amicable nature; they are also...
Emma Gillies
Dec 22, 2020

From sea to space: ways to monitor whales
As human impacts on whales become an increasingly critical issue, monitoring whales’ distributions and numbers are bound to be a key part...
Malcolm Kennedy
Dec 4, 2020
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