Collected by an underwater microphone located in Johnstone Strait off the coast of Vancouver Island, the signal is broadcast over a 15 kilometre range. The wild killer whale sounds are also sent over a phone line to a new whale acoustics exhibit at the Vancouver Aquarium. Don't despair if you are not going to be in Vancouver any time soon, organizers hope to have ORCA FM live audio broadcasts available on the Net soon. In addition to bringing killer whale communications to the public, organizers hope ORCA FM will help people learn more about research and conservation efforts as well as problems such as underwater noise pollution from boats. Of course, ORCA FM will also help researchers track and monitor killer whale movements all year long without disturbing them.
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Patients would just peel a liner off and stick it onto the skin. They would not see any needles, and there should be no pain associated with it. A super-bright quasar discovered by researchers including Dr. Geraint Lewis, an astronomer from B.C.'s University of Victoria. The quasar was a lucky discovery as the researchers were actually looking for carbon stars not quasars. This page was last updated November 7, 1998.