Dolphin Adventure Blog Goes Live

The Friends of the Dolphin Blog has gone live and will soon offer weekly dolphin encounter reports from around Australia and the Pacific. The blog is the official online site for the Pacific Marinelife Institute program until the new FOD site is ready within the Insitute's multi-lingual online eco-hub currently under construction. The will also include regularly changing features, gear reviews, a gallery and a list of dolphin adventures from throughout the Pacific and Indian oceans that are supporting the program.

New Dolphin Adoption Program

After nearly 15 years since the original Friends of the Dolphin adoption program, Pacific Marinelife Institute is again launching a Dolphin Adoption Program to help raise funds for cooperative research projects. The program will offer a symbolic adoption of a dolphin species or the adoption of a pod, instead of individual dolphins. More details soon.

Students Become Researchers

Pacific Marinelife Institute is launching an exciting program in 2011 allowing Primary and Secondary school students the chance to become dolphin researchers without leaving the classroom. Science classes can assist in plotting dolphin sightings, compare pod activity with climatic information and help in identifying individual dolphins from data received from Project boats. The Institute will also be organizing class expeditions at various locations so students who have been involved in classroom based activities can also take on a field role. The Friends of the Dolphin program will also be encouraging the adoption of dolphin pods by the different year levels, so that each year the school based program is continued by the incoming students.