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Shane Gero

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Canadian Marine Biologist @carletonbiology | Founder of The Dominica Sperm Whale Project | Biology Lead @projectceti

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#dominica #explorepodcast #momentofzen #cangeopolarplunge #canada #canadaflagday #natgeoexplorers

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Join us for an unforgettable evening of science, storytelling, and ocean conservation at our annual Wild Ocean Science event 🌊 We’re excited to welcome Dr. Shane Gero, founder of the Dominica Sperm Whale Project, whose work reveals the rich social lives and communication of sperm whale families in the Caribbean. Dr. Gero is also the Biology Lead for Project CETI. The evening will be hosted by Miles O’Brien of PBS NewsHour, and will feature updates from Dr. Denise Herzing, Founder and Research Director of the Wild Dolphin Project, sharing the latest discoveries from her 40+ years studying Atlantic spotted dolphins. Dr. Herzing will also be signing books and available for photos. Come connect with the science, the community, and the ocean that inspires it all. Limited tickets so get yours now ➡https://secure.qgiv.com/for/wildoceanscience-2026/event/wilddolphinoceanscience2026/ @projectceti Sperm whale photos by @acottonphoto 17 Feb 2026

Thanks to observer reports, we collect cetacean sighting data and can confirm species using clear photos and videos 📸 Some images even allow us to identify individual whales and dolphins. Our latest match “Roger” (picture 2 & 3), an older female sperm whale known since 2001 in Dominica where she spends much of her time with her family. The photo shared to us, marks her first confirmed sighting in SVG waters ! Sperm whales are matriarchal and live in female led social groups 🐋 Support our research by reporting whale and dolphin sightings. Please include GPS coordinates (if possible), date, time, and any photos or videos. Thank you @stephan.hornsey for sharing these photos 🇻🇨 and thank you @shanegero @projectceti 🇩🇲 29 Jan 2026

In a shifted baseline, after species have been lost or reached the brink, its easy to give up on bringing them back or protecting the habitats in which they live. Its been decades since a loggerhead sea turtle came ashore on a beach in #dominica to lay eggs according to @dominicaseaturtles records. And yet, last week, after leaving the whales, we came across a large loggerhead sea turtle, which was perhaps a female just based on tail length and size, swimming off the coast of the north end of the island among a large patch of sargassum. Juvenile sea turtles have an amazing period called the ‘lost years’ in which we don’t really know where young sea turtles go between being born and their first time back to their natal beach to lay eggs for the first time. Perhaps this is a long ‘lost’ hatchling, returned to its home after decades at sea! The promise of this return, that Dominica’s lost generation may return 30 years later, should give us all hope. Like a time capsule for biodiversity, it’s a reason to enact protections for species even after it seems their populations have declined. @dominicaseaturtles and @oceansforward are doing research and conservation work now driving action. There is a generation of turtles out there in the blue, waiting to return to our beaches for the first time, and if we enact protections in anticipation of their return, we stand a chance to recover what was once thought lost. 15 May 2025

We're talking Sperm Whales on the next @cangeo #ExplorePodcast episode out on Tuesday! Specifically I'm talking with @carleton_u Prof. @ShaneGero about listening to sperm whales. He is leading the charge to crack the code of the sperm whales click language or codas. You can hear our talk on March 4th wherever you listen to podcasts. You can hear the whales here now. #momentofzen ****This is a great example of the unique Canadian storytelling we do on Explore. You can support that and help Canadian Geographic tell Canada's story by donating to the #CanGeoPolarPlunge which is happening on March 9th right across Canada. The link is in my bio or go to rcgs.org/polarplunge2025 03 Mar 2025

Recognizing this symbol of democracy that turns only 60 today! Lets ensure it will have 60 more independent years and recognition for global humanitarianism, peace keeping, international aid, international trade, allied defenses, social support systems for our diverse peoples, and universal healthcare. #canada #canadaflagday Image: Ethan Sahagun under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International from Wikimedia Commons 15 Feb 2025

With this picture, January 15 2005 at 0743 we started an adventure that I couldn’t have imagined at the time. I didn’t know it then, but this wasn’t just a piece of data to a young student, it was Terka. A female from Unit T, whom we would come to know across a significant portion of both her and my life. This was only the first picture of the over 160,000 we would take as a part of The Dominica Sperm Whale Project. While Terka is no longer with Unit T, and we have lost many others over the last 20 years, it has been a huge honour to spend nearly half my life learning from the sperm whale families off #Dominica . Most of all this picture makes me feel deeply grateful. To the whale families for letting me share in their lives and for the burden of their trust which built my passion for science and storytelling; to my family for allowing me to be away and to pursue this passion, and particularly for the strong female leader in our own unit, my wife; who if she hadn’t taken on all of the responsibilities of our kids and life during that time, it would have never happened; and to all my “whale friends” as my kids used to call all of the graduate students, crew, colleagues and amazing humans in Dominica that have led to the success of all this and have been the product of learning the whale’s lesson of working together to overcome unimaginable obstacles. But what this picture should tell us all is that when we step out of the house, we never really know what will be the steppingstones that bring us to where we ought to be. Today we identify the whales from aerial drones, record them with silent gliders under the sea, and my “whale friends” include computer scientists, roboticists and others in @projectceti who are inspired when they meet the whales for the first time to apply their skills to listening to and understanding someone so different from them. They won’t get a chance to meet Terka, nor really did my human kids meet their great grandmother after which she was named, but nonetheless sharing their stories can teach us something about how to be better humans. Because of these whales, I am a better person than I was when I took this picture... | | ||| 16 Jan 2025

Such a great story from the @financialtimes on AI and animal communication. It not only asks the question about 'could' we understand animals using AI, but also the important questions about if we 'should' and how we might do so while respecting the animals with which we work. This is one of the best looking articles I have seen online as well. The art department/Data viz team did an amazing job with the video and acoustics for the article!!! Thanks to the two Sams and Irene, whom I never met but did all these amazing animals a great honour! The matching podcast FT- Tech Tonic on @spotify is also a great listen! Thanks Persis for bring this all together! @projectceti @davidfgruber @begusgasper @azaaza @amboseli_trust @carletonbiology @carletonscience 19 Jan 2024

When I was on the water with the Group of Seven the other day, a family we have known since the first days of research here in 2005, I was thinking a lot about how much Dominica and the industry around the whales has changed since then. Back then Dominica was already pioneers in whale watching in the Caribbean, but there was only a few boat-based whalewatches a week, otherwise we were out there all alone living and working with the whales. Now, the operators are strong advocates for the whales they know as individuals, speak about them as members of their ocean community, and so many people come with the hopes of meeting specific individuals when they travel here. The Government proudly portrays the whales to promote the island and many people know of Dominica because of them; and our small research project The Dominica Sperm Whale Project has grown to be a key partner in the large collaborative initiative in @projectceti Reading draft legislation for the Sperm Whale Reserve over the last several weeks as science advisor to the Government of #Dominica and seeing the laws which will become reality has also been deeply rewarding personally. I often talk about the “burden of trust” the whales have put in me to speak on their behalf and how this drives my work and life; and so I am excited for the Governments actions today and over the last several months towards establishing the protections that will be granted to the whale families. Their leadership and forward thinking should be greatly celebrated. And while there is still a lot to do both for the Reserve and the whales in a larger sense, I am deeply grateful to @natgeopristineseas , Dynamic Planet, and @projectceti for their partnership in making this a reality. I am so happy for the whales, but also for all my friends and colleagues whose lives are intertwined with them. The operators and guides who work with them, or have worked with them, and whose lives have been imprinted by the lives of these whales. 01 Jan 1970

Back at one of my all time favourite places! So happy to be back @insidenatgeo headquarters! #natgeoexplorers 26 Apr 2023

Come join us and be a part of the CETI fellowship! Applications are due June 6th! What started as a small experiential learning opportunity years ago between the DSWP and the Dominica State College and Dominica Fisheries has been built in partnership with National Geographic and Project CETI into this amazing program for young leaders in science, art, conservation and storytelling! So proud of this program!! 26 Apr 2023

She was always the first one at the door to greet you. Even if it meant pushing the kids and the grandparents out of the way. With her loud and proud barking she wanted you to know she was happy to see you….but then she’d want you to let her out the back door before you even put your bags down. When we first picked her up in 2009, she would curl up on your feet and just want - need - to be with you. As her crazy hair grew longer, so did she…well beyond the 50lbs we were told her breed typically is. She took up half the bed, which was fine especially when I was away, it kept Erica warm. She raised each of our boys and welcomed them into our home. She was their big sister after all. She tolerated being sat on as toddlers, in exchange for cuddling on the couch and sleeping under their bunk beds as big kids. She taught them to take care of someone you love, and to speak up when you need help. Teagan will hold onto our hearts long after today when we said good-bye. Her barking is quieter but her love just as strong. I’m sorry I wasn’t there in your last days…but I still vividly remember your firsts. 11 Mar 2023

Yesterday, I met up with at sea with a boat full of students and talk how both they and the whales call #Dominica home. We learned the Caribbean coda | | ||| And as we left they thanked “ Dr. Whale” which I think is not a bad nickname :) 11 Mar 2023

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