Social Group Memberships
Encounter(s) (not all may be currently visible) & Biological Samples
Mapping
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Additional data files
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Meet the Adopters
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"I would love future generations to be able to swim with and see these beautiful creatures." |
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Collaborating Researchers
Jason Holmberg
Affiliation: Wild Me
Research Project: Wildbook
Web Site: http://www.wildme.org
"Jason is a founder of Wildbook for Whale Sharks and its Information Architect."
Brad Norman
Affiliation: ECOCEAN
Research Project: normanb
Web Site: http://www.whaleshark.org.au
"Brad leads ECOCEAN Inc. and is a co-Founder of the Whale Shark Photo-identification Library."
Emily Wilson
Affiliation: Department of Parks and Wildlife, Government of Western Australia
Research Project: Ningaloo
Dani Rob
Affiliation: Parks and Wildlife Service, Government of Western Australia
Web Site: http://www.dbca.wa.gov.au/
Aisleen Dilks
Natalie Pitman
Affiliation: ECOCEAN Inc.
Research Project: Ningaloo
Laetitia Smoll
Affiliation: ECOCEAN Inc.
Research Project: Ningaloo
Rafaela Ribeiro
Affiliation: ECOCEAN Inc.
Research Project: Ningaloo
Phoebe Colvin Oehmig
Samantha Reynolds
Affiliation: ECOCEAN Australia
Research Project: Ningaloo
Researcher comments (Text or HTML):
admin on Mon Dec 13 02:25:30 EST 2004
Created new shark A-101.
admin on Thu Nov 03 01:39:07 EST 2005
Added encounter#2112005232130.
admin on Fri Nov 04 00:01:17 EST 2005
Added encounter#3112005123335.
admin on Thu Dec 01 00:52:59 EST 2005
Added encounter#611200521440.
admin on Thu Sep 07 10:32:08 EDT 2006
Added encounter#118200631521.
admin on Sun Aug 24 15:12:48 EDT 2008
Added encounter#2482008142731.
dbradley on Tue Aug 25 16:04:33 EDT 2009
Added encounter#2582009151041.
admin on Sun Oct 04 01:13:54 EDT 2009
Added encounter#2082009131220.
dbradley on Fri Jul 23 14:16:27 EDT 2010
Added encounter 2372010112823.
dbradley on Fri Jul 30 11:46:10 EDT 2010
Added encounter 3072010103515.
dbradley on Thu Sep 02 19:36:56 EDT 2010
Added encounter 19201012422.
normanb on Fri Sep 09 11:56:51 EDT 2011
Added encounter 992011103846.
normanb on Mon Feb 20 04:36:54 EST 2012
Added encounter 14122011226.
normanb on Fri Mar 09 10:16:31 EST 2012
Added encounter 1312201105733.
normanb on Fri Jun 08 21:07:30 EDT 2012
Added encounter 131220110591.
drob on Tue Jul 24 02:46:24 EDT 2012
Added encounter 2472012281.
drob on Wed Jul 25 02:20:17 EDT 2012
Added encounter 2472012215541.
admin on Wed Aug 29 13:35:04 EDT 2012
Added encounter 25120119627.
admin on Thu Apr 04 11:22:53 EDT 2013
Added encounter 26520128446.
drob on Wed Sep 11 00:11:16 EDT 2013
Added encounter 9920132238.
normanb on Mon Oct 27 00:15:31 EDT 2014
Added encounter fdff2f5f-f679-4871-a3ca-b1c0debf5bf4.
normanb on Sun Nov 16 19:33:25 EST 2014
Added encounter 5caa0d51-2e1b-4c46-af94-064a601b8f75.
normanb on Wed Dec 17 06:57:32 EST 2014
Added encounter 60293348-9083-4b86-8d93-8821b493faf2.
normanb on Sat Feb 28 00:08:40 EST 2015
Added encounter f03c9688-93b0-4267-9b85-8d4eac8799db.
baxtere on Sat Apr 11 02:23:56 EDT 2015
Added encounter 0fcbb9c7-7e11-4dfe-8cf9-f8a1184718f7.
closek on Thu Apr 14 12:40:15 UTC 2016
Added encounter e6a3f0fb-3f9c-4d71-a84d-5e494cfd9885.
closek on Thu Apr 14 12:56:19 UTC 2016
Added encounter 33cc0245-5c30-4aaa-aa24-769b76332b55.
bernsteins on Fri Apr 22 01:04:41 UTC 2016
Added encounter b1973697-7109-4616-b475-8c14e74954ea.
hainesl on Sat Jul 29 04:02:26 UTC 2017
Added encounter 49770a83-b4c0-49d1-9578-db89853c9a99.
buchanank on Mon Jul 31 08:26:42 UTC 2017
Added encounter af902494-8795-453f-a35b-644ac151eb5b.
smolll on Sat Aug 11 11:34:52 UTC 2018
Added encounter 9fa4f430-017b-445a-a934-c3129bec376c.
smolll on Sat Aug 11 11:54:04 UTC 2018
Added encounter 673e75b1-5df0-4c83-a417-612e32c9a06c.
smolll on Mon Aug 20 09:40:58 UTC 2018
Added encounter f3a2c03f-39cc-4505-86a7-20f25cb4a06b.
smolll on Mon Aug 20 09:46:23 UTC 2018
Added encounter e14c59df-5d72-4aeb-8d6c-219ea54db29e.
ribeiror on Fri Sep 14 18:42:32 UTC 2018
Added encounter b966bc30-e0cc-4704-92a8-acb001d61607.
wests on Sun Sep 23 09:59:59 UTC 2018
Added encounter 93789cf4-e40f-4026-9de8-222d34037c2d.
wests on Mon Oct 15 00:38:52 UTC 2018
Added encounter 3ccaddc8-23b2-46d2-9de6-4dc9e7705046.
smolll on Sun Feb 24 08:09:53 UTC 2019
Added encounter 9f96180b-8a5c-47bd-98e7-e50731f084ae.
colvinp on Sat Apr 20 04:53:54 UTC 2019
Added encounter 6abcb980-1038-4dba-805c-20777634b842.
reynoldss on Mon Jun 10 15:09:18 UTC 2019
Added encounter cd637d46-ad0f-41c2-91fa-677361f85250.
smolll on Thu Aug 01 10:40:29 UTC 2019
Added encounter 38e94155-aec6-449d-99ab-ddab6b4d8edd.
smolll on Wed Oct 02 10:12:51 UTC 2019
Added encounter 23dc54c3-bcab-49a7-b88b-bc0276f18659.
smolll on Wed Oct 02 10:13:06 UTC 2019
Added encounter 6d03e723-1306-4769-8ba4-7f59aff9e1d1.
woodj on Wed Mar 18 02:06:42 UTC 2020
Added encounter 713245c5-616d-4d75-b340-ce34c76efeac.