Explore this collection of videos and short films on sea otters and their ecology (More coming soon)
https://www.opb.org/article/2021/06/17/superabundant-oregon-purple-sea-urchin/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcy-i_IJH9Y KQED video 2007 (13 min), on sea otter mortality
https://futureoftheocean.wordpress.com/tag/sea-otter/ Monterey Bay Aquarium article with video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASJ82wyHisE&sns=fb Sea Otters vs Urchins in Canada’s Kelp Forests 2015 (2:07) Simon Fraser Univ. Pew Fellowship
http://blog.seattleaquarium.org/conservation/recovery-for-sea-otters/ Seattle Aquarium recovery of Washington sea otters 2015 with embedded video https://youtu.be/9TTgaMcTa1I (41 secs, floating sea otters) from 2010
Serengeti Rules (PBS Nature) https://watch.opb.org/video/the-serengeti-rules-41dfru/?continuousplayautoplay=true
Elakha Alliance You Tube Channel:
2020 Sea Otter Virtual Science Symposium
Keynote Address from Dr. Jim Estes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNv8wWuvooM&t=413s
01 Scott Groth Sea Urchin Biology & Management in Oregon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3UcHQPESMw&t=4s
02 Sara Hamilton Conservation Status of Pycnopodia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_vw6lMeins&t=4s
03 Josh Smith Patchiness in Kelp & Urchin Barrens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0C5q3hH-_A&t=11s
04 Brent Hughes Effects of Sea Otters Recolonizing Estuaries https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiNwM2VP0wk&t=10s
05 Considerations for Recolonization of Sea Otters in Oregon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2d-gY9Lf2w&t=42s
2018 Oregon Sea Otter Status of Knowledge Symposium
01 Ann Salomon/Barbara Wilson Sea Otters as a Keyston Specie https://youtu.be/3-PoobUS7nA
02 Lilian Carswell California Population Status and and Conservation Issues https://youtu.be/-l70hvmhEsI
03 Deanna Lynch Washington Populations Status and Conservation Issues https://youtu.be/DaHFcjeVkSQ
04 Jim Bodkin British Columbia Population Status and Conservation Issues https://youtu.be/3RCn89n4u7Y
05 Jim Bodkin Alaska Population Status and Conservation Issues https://youtu.be/CTy2x-2LRyk
06 Shawn Larson Current Understanding of Sea Otter Genetics https://youtu.be/h6vaSSrQNvU
07 Bobbi Hall Sea Otters in Oregon, Archeological Evidence https://youtu.be/Dz9mH40tR74
08 Hannah Wellman Oregon Coast as Transitional Zone for Sea Otters (subspecies grandient) https://youtu.be/MfKGM4whfXk
09 Sarah Hamilton Kelp Habitat on the Oregon Coast https://youtu.be/8Tr74fyVfNc
10 Dominique Kone Revisiting the Oregon Translocations of 1970-71 https://youtu.be/EFyLbB_nBeU
11 Jim Bodkin Lessons Learned about Sea Otter Translocation
Elakha presentation in Gold Beach Mar 10, 2020 https://currycountyvoices.com/programs/
Miscellaneous Videos
2019 https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/sponsorstory/5-facts-you-didnt-know-about-sea-otters
Selka at MBA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1WfvC3tqGA
Sea Otter Fur https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxqg_um1TXI
Sea Otter Fantastic Fur https://www.pbs.org/video/deep-look-fantastic-fur-sea-otters/
X Sea Otters decoded https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De8vZW8ws6o
Sea Otters at GA Aquarium 2 otters meet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4_IJv2zuvQ
When Hardy Met Katmai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bWwQO9NmwI
Rescued pup at Alaska Sea Life Center https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KDVdCoaopY
Sea Otter Pups’ First Thanksgiving https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV0aTiay_Uk
501 Introduced to Tula Mom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdy7DEhvsVU
Rescued pup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgzjGUg7zbQ
Nature: Sea otter behavior https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0OyhHeelyo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yalEBoVMNk8 Kelp and Urchins
http://oregonstate.adobeconnect.com/p0ptgutrhnlh/ Dominique Kone Masters presentation HMSC December 18, 2019 also Dom’s thesis: https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/graduate_thesis_or_dissertations/bv73c622c?locale=en
https://oregonstate.adobeconnect.com/_a827349107/p52xmx1sobvh/?proto=true Dr. Tim Tinker, HMSC, December 19, 2019 A Question of Scale
2019 Serengeti Rules https://watch.opb.org/video/the-serengeti-rules-41dfru/?continuousplayautoplay=true
2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRGg5it5FMI Keystone Species and Trophic Cascades: Sea Otters, Kelp and More (with Bob Paine, Jim Estes) May, 2016 (19:56) Howard Hughes Medical Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUl_y6QrMUs Jim Estes lecture on Sea Otters and Kelp (March 2016 at Oregon State University 1:03:15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXhy1LNqQ60 Apex Predators Sea Otters and Kelp Forests Jim Estes lecture, June 2016 26:50
2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZqVt5WSJVM Sea Otters: A Natural History Oct 2014 Vancouver Aquarium 1:20:00 Lecture by Jane Watson (begins 4:30)
The Importance of Kelp
http://blogs.ubc.ca/acryforkelp/ UBC video embedded in a blog about Kelp Jane Watson
https://vimeo.com/112028708 Vimeo The Importance of Kelp Jane Watson UBC
BBC: Forest Guardians (2012) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYpM-qDNKzs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DIVuTrG3N4 The Impact of Sea Otters (1:44) OneOcean (Monterey Bay kelp recovery) with Steve Palumbi
Restoring Southern California’s Kelp Forests (2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KpA0DY_Wbo
Sea Otters vs Sea Urchins on Canada’s West Coast (Pew 2015) with Anne Salomon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASJ82wyHisE
Kelp Forests (NOS, 2009) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcbU4bfkDA4
Kelp Forest Biome (2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5tMr-7RYsg
Conserving the Pacific Kelp Forest ( 2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg62WKwA470 Sea Otters: A Keystone Species (summary of threats to sea otters) Consilience 2:49 2010
https://www.fws.gov/ventura/newsroom/release.cfm?item=347 USFWS Thinking Like an Ocean by Lilian Carswell; great photos and a short video embedded
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170619-conservation-success-for-otters-on-the-brink June, 2017 BBC story on otters worldwide.
https://vimeo.com/220680434 UBC Old Sea Otter skeleton video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jORLckfzD80 California sea otters: a gap in the Point Reyes ecosystem Oct 2012 (5:14) Good overview of sea otters in ecosystems and specific impact in CA. Pacific Coast Science and Learning Center, Point Reyes National Seashore. https://youtu.be/jORLckfzD80
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvfFsC165CY Sea Otters in Elkhorn Slough: A Conservation Success Story Monterey Bay Aquarium (3:14)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTIQnnvYbqQ Threatened: The Controversial Struggle of the Southern Sea Otter – Teaser Palomart Television January 2013 (4:25)
The Fantastic Fur of Sea Otters/Deep Look https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTIQnnvYbqQ 3:23 KQED 2015
Sea Otters Vs Climate Change 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHOmbAMkCJs OR https://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2014/01/14/sea-otters-urchins-kelp-climate-change/
Sea Otter Adoption at Monterey Bay Aquarium PBS 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgFHhfEbcn8