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UBC Public Affairs Press Releases
March 3rd, 2008 - Blue Whale Skeleton Finds Permanent Home at UBC: Canadian First
May 14th, 2008 - Blue Whale to be Unearthed: “National Treasure” to Embark on Cross-Canada Journey
Images
A high resolution JPEG of the architectural rendering of the Beaty Biodiversity Centre can be downloaded here (16.6MB). Credit to Patkau Architects and Derek Tan.
Slideshow photos from the Degreasing phase of the project are available in full-resolution in a zip file here (12.3MB).
October 2008: high-resolution Degreasing photos are available here.
November 2008: high-resolution Excavation photos are available here.
June 2009: high-resolution Workshop photos are available here.
The Blue Whale Project in Press
August 4th - Victoria News, "Whale of a job"
August 1st - The Vancouver Sun, "Whale bones get hot tub soak"
August 1st - CHEK News, "Giant skeleton's reconstruction a whale of a job"
May 17th - The Boston Globe, "The biggest dig: Unearthing leviathan in Canada"
May 15th - The Globe and Mail, "Smelly whale carcass heading west"
In Video
May 17th - The Canadian Press, in The Guardian, "Scientists expose skeleton of massive blue whale in P.E.I. dig"
May 17th - CTV National, "Bulk of massive blue whale dug up in P.E.I."
CBC News Compass - interview with Andrew Trites (RAM file 5:58)
CBC News Compass - project background and interview with Pierre Yves-Daoust (RAM file 7:17)
For the latest coverage of the blue whale story, see a list at Google News
