Ken Balcomb, researcher who championed orcas in the PNW, dies at 82 FOX13
Balcomb continued the survey every year, following the orcas with his binoculars in a boat, photographing them and constructing family trees of the three pods of Southern Resident killer whales.
An eccentric and sometimes gruff scientist with a gray beard and a weathered look, Balcomb had a single-minded devotion to the whales, with their bones displayed around his San Juan Island home in Washington state. On a stereohe often listened to passing whales’ clicks and whistles through underwater devices sunk in kelp beds.
Another scientist conducted necropsies and CT scans and found that the whales had bleeding in their ear canals. When federal officials demurred about the cause of the strandings, Balcomb held a news conference in Washington, D.C. and spoke out, blaming the use of a new generation of anti-submarine sonar technology.
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