WildWatchcams

Live Sealcam • Sealcam

Video • Sharing the Shore with Harbor Seal Pups in Washington State • Sealcam pre-recorded videos • Interview with Dyanna Lambourn, WDFW Biologist

Want to Learn More? • Western Washington SealCam Blog • General Natural History of the Harbor Seal • Seal Research and Studies • Sharing the Shore with Harbor Seal Pups in Washington State WDFW & NOAA • The Life of a Harbor Seal Pup: From Birth to Weaning Photographic Story • Life and Death on Seal Haul Out Photographic Series

Reports and Abstracts • Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in Harbor Seals (Phoca vitulina) in Southern Puget Sound, Washington • Temporal trends in contaminants In Puget Sound harbor seal

SEALS

Seal Research and Studies

Biologists from WDFW's Marine Mammal Investigations and other agencies and organizations (see Research Organizations) are working on assessing the status of the health of Puget Sound and establish a baseline of data that will enable trends to be tracked over time on species that spend some significant portion of their year on marine waters and are highly dependent upon the marine resource. Harbor seals are excellent sentinels of marine ecosystem health because of their high trophic level. We are conducting research regarding life history parameter, contaminants and immunological response, reproductive success, disease and overall health monitoring at our long-term study site in southern Puget Sound.

Seal photos and video footage were taken by Dyanna Lambourn, WDFW biologist

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Seal Health and Disease Studies