Upcoming Events
Calendar: Upcoming Whale Trust Events, Book Signings and Presentations
Whale Trust is committed to the goal of promoting and fostering Maui as a unique living laboratory for whale research and marine education. This goal is attainable through the development and participation of community outreach programs not only here in Maui and the mainland United States, but around the globe.
We update this section of our website regularly, so please check back to see if one of us will be speaking somewhere in your area soon.
Whale Tales 2013
February 16 – 18th
at The Maui Theatre in Lahaina (Home of Ulalena)
Whale Trust Annual Golf Tournament
Sponsored by 
February 2, 2013 at The King Kamehameha Golf Club
Play Maui's only 18-hole private golf course and enjoy incredible ocean views while supporting Whale Trust!
Get a hole-in-one and you could be the lucky winner of a new Mercedes!
• Continental breakfast and awards luncheon
• $5,000 in cash prizes and merchandise awards.
Register today! Download Registration Form and email to apirnia@whaletrust.org or fax the completed form to 808.572.5701.
We are currently seeking hole sponsors. Please contact Meagan Jones at 808.572.5700 or mjones@whaletrust.org for details.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Winter/Spring 2013
February 2013
Whale Trust Golf Tournament
Feb 3rd, 8 AM start
at the King Kamehameha Golf Club
Whale Tales
Feb 16 – 18th, 2013
at The Maui Theatre in Lahaina
Summer 2013
National Geographic Expeditions announces New High Arctic trip
Join Flip Nicklin on this amazing adventure!
Baffin Island and Greenland
17days, Aug. 10-27, 2013
PAST EVENTS
Fall 2012
13th International Conference of the American Cetacean Society
Whales and Humans: A Conflicted Relationship
November 9 – 11th, 2012
San Diego, CA
November 10, 2012 -- Special Guest Speaker, Flip Nicklin (7:00 – 9:00 PM)
Winter/Spring 2012
March 2012
March 5, 2012
Flip Nicklin at Mote Marine Lab, Sarasota, Florida, 7:30 pm
March 10 – 11, 2012
Ocean Arts Festival, Campbell Park, Lahaina, Maui.
March 10 – 17, 2012
Flip Nicklin on a National Geographic Expedition to Baja.
March 17 – 24, 2012
Flip Nicklin on a National Geographic Expedition to Baja.
Pacific Rim Whale Festival
Humpback Songs & Wandering Grey Whales
Presented by Dr. Jim Darling
Saturday March 24, 2012
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Remote Passages Marine Excursions, Tofino, Vancouver Island
February 2012
February 1, 2012
Flip Nicklin and Jason Sturgis
Napili Kai Beach Resort, Napili, 10:00 am
February 3 and 4, 2012
Whale Tales, Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua
February 10, 2012
The Baldwin House
Lahaina Second Friday
January 2012
January 4-8, 2012
Waimea Ocean Film Festival, Waimea + Kohala Coast, Big Island.
January 10-13, 2012
Waimea Ocean Film Festival, Four Seasons Resort Haulalai.
January 20, 2012
Makawao Third Friday
January 23rd, 2012
Flip Nicklin on Hawaii News Now!
Hawaii News (KGMB,KHNL and KFIV)
Between 6 – 8 am
January 28, 2012
Annual Whale Trust Charity Golf Tournament, King Kamehameha Golf Club, Maui.
Fall/Winter 2011
The Society for Marine Mammalogy
November 28 – December 2, 2011
19th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Tampa, Florida.
Makawao Third Friday
December 16, 2011
Book Signing with Flip Nicklin
Whale Trust Annual General Meeting, Maui
December 17, 2011
Spring 2011
Ocean Arts Festival
March 12-13th, 2011
Campbell Park, Lahaina, Maui
Whale Trust will be selling copies of Flip Nicklin's new book, Among Giants: A Life with Whales, and Jim Darling's, Hawaii's Humpbacks, under the Banyan Tree on Saturday and Sunday.
Benefit Night for Whale Trust at Flatbread Pizza
March 15, 2011
5-10 p.m.
Paia, Maui
Whale Tales, Ritz-Carlton Maui,
Whale Trust’s three co-founders, Flip Nicklin, Jim Darling and Meagan Jones will each be presenting results from their latest work.
February 2011.
Book Launch and Signing
Book Launch for Among Giants: A Life with Whales
by Charles “Flip” Nicklin. Book Signing with the Author.
February 2011
Flip Nicklin Presents
at The Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary
February 15th, 2011 at 6:00 PM.
Kihei, Maui
Spring 2009
Whales, A Changing View
Special Guest Lecturer, Flip Nicklin
April 27, 2009
Juneau, Alaska
Fourth Annual Whale Quest Kapalua
February 13-15, 2009
Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua, Maui, Hawaii
List of presenters and schedule announced!
Fall 2008
The Water’s Edge – Whale’s A Changing View
Special Guest and Lecturer, Flip Nicklin
Stroud Water Research Center
October 2, 2008, 6:15-7:30 PM
The Harvard Club, New York City
Guest Speaker, Flip Nicklin
October 3, 2008
Breakfast with Flip Nicklin,
Hosted by Garry Weber
October 10, 2008
Dallas, Texas
Summer 2008
Festival of the Photograph
June 12-14, 2008
Charlottesville, Virginia
TREES – Flip Nicklin
June 1 - 30th
Widely regarded as the world's premiere photographer of whales, Flip Nicklin's majestic undersea images will be suspended high in the trees along Charlottesville's pedestrian mall.And on Wednesday, June 11th, Flip will be on hand to give a special presentation.
7 - 9pm at The Paramount
Spring 2008
Third Annual Whale Quest Kapalua
February 15-17, 2008
Kapalua (Maui), Hawaii
List of presenters coming soon!
Ocean Arts Festival
March 13, 2008
Lahaina (Maui), Hawaii
Host and Emcee: Flip Nicklin
Fall 2007
17th Biennial Conference
on the Biology of Marine Mammals
November 29 – December 3, 2007
Cape Town, South Africa
Abstract: Responses of humpback whale singers to playback of similar and different songs. Download PDF
Summer 2007
Tofino Botanical Gardens
July 3, 2007
Tofino, British Columbia
Presentation: Jim Darling, Why Do Whales Sing
Spring 2007
Second Annual Whale Quest Kapalua
February 16-18, 2007
Kapalua (Maui), Hawaii
Click here to download 2007 Event Schedule and Presenters’ Bios
Ocean Arts Festival
March 15, 2007
Lahaina (Maui), Hawaii
Host and Emcee: Flip Nicklin
Fall 2006
University of Alaska Southeast, Egan Lecture Series
October 26, 2007
Juneau, Alaska
Evening Keynote Speaker: Jim Darling
Click here to read about his presentation.
Sitka Whale Fest
November 3-5, 2006
Evening Keynote Speaker: Flip Nicklin
Symposium: Jim Darling, Why Do Humpback Whales Sing?
Vancouver Natural History Society
November 9, 2006
Vancouver, British Columbia
Presenter: Jim Darling, Why Do Humpback Whales Sing?
Click here to download the poster advertising his presentation.
American Cetacean Society, Whales Without Borders Conference
November 10-12, 2006
Ventura, California
Evening Keynote Speaker: Flip Nicklin
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