Dear colleagues, 

On behalf of my co-authors, I am delighted to share our new manuscript published in PLOS One on concentrations of essential and non-essential elements in eastern North Pacific killer whales:

Lo CF, Gaydos JK, Poppenga R, Barre L, Burek-Huntington K, Calambokidis J, et al. (2026) Concentrations of essential and non-essential elements in eastern North Pacific killer whales (Orcinus orca). PLOS One 21(7): e0353196.

Please find this publication available open access through the following link: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0353196 

You can find a short digest about the paper in our recent blog post here: https://www.seadocsociety.org/blog/new-study-provides-largest-ever-dataset-of-elemental-concentrations-in-killer-whales

Best Regards,
Catherine 


Catherine Lo (she/her/hers)
Research Assistant
SeaDoc Society
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