Cell scrapersSet of 100 cell scrapers. We use these to scrape the exhaled breath condensate (snot) samples off SnotBot's petri dishes when we're on expeditions.

Box of 500 Whirl-Pak bags to store samples

Many of Salt’s 13 known calves have been given names that continue the Salt theme: Crystal

applying for grants

FIRST YEAR SEEN: 1976

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she is usually one of the first whales to arrive on Stellwagen Bank

Org on the back - this hat celebrates our wonderful snot-collecting drone

Stay warm in the lab or at sea with the SnotBot Knit Beanie

we needed gloves to wear on expedition while handling petri dishes and vials so we wouldn't contaminate the whale snot samples

The wound has healed nicely

which makes her one of the largest humpback whales in our population

Bayou is easily recognized because half the whale's right fluke was lost in a ship strike in 2009 (when Bayou was 3 years old)