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Related pagesJAZZ at the LABS Jazz at the Labs supports science in the classroom (2006) Not your typical science classroom (jazz preview 2005) Jazz at the Labs supports science in the classroom (2004) OPEN HOUSE Open House 2007
Open House 2005 Open House 2003 Global impacts of "Bug Station's" century of research 100 Years of Exploration and Discovery - University of Washington Friday Harbor Labs Centennial Exhibit Centennial celebration included dedication of the Centennial Helen Riaboff Whiteley Center NECROPSY STORY: | |
Whale of a biology lesson at FH LabsStory and photos by Sharon Kivisto | |
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Steve Rafferty, a British Columbia veterinarian who specializes in pathology of mammals, and Gaydos began dissecting the whale. Sections of skin containing parasites were removed for study. Tissue samples were taken. Albert Shepard of the Whale Museum removed the baleen. The fin was removed to be used as an educational display in the Whale Museum. Eric Eisenhart, Adam Ü , Erin O'Connell, Rowann Talmon, Ken Balcomb and Dave Ellifrit also worked on the necropsy. Friday Harbor resident Farhad Ghatan helped out by sharpening the knives.Eisenhart and Koski had caught up with the drifting whale yesterday, (Tuesday, Nov. 5) and tied it up to a dock overnight. The whale was first spotted off of Waldron Island on Monday, Nov. 4, 2002. Two more researchers arrived on the late ferry. (One can only imagine what the riders thought when they went by the labs and saw the locals carving up a whale.) Steve Rafferty of the Dept. of Fish and Wildlife and John Calamokidis of Cascadia Research and NOA brought more equipment and expertise. If all goes as planned, the carcass will be taken to Pt. George off of Shaw Island and tied up to a buoy. Osborne said the Whale Museum hopes to sink the whale. If that is successful, the musuem's underwater vehicle will take photos as the whale decomposes. The footage will be viewable on the Internet. Plan B is for the Army Corps of Engineers to take the carcass away. 
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