Dr. Alex Werth has been on sabbatical for the 2013-14 academic year, focusing on his research on feeding in baleen whales.  His work has recently been featured on a pair of websites dedicated to marine science.  The first, found at http://deepseanews.com/2014/04/why-do-beluga-whales-have-love-handles, describes work Dr. Werth did in 2012 to establish how beluga whales use abdominal fat pads to stabilize themselves.  The second, http://www.wildinblue.com/featured.html, comes from a website that bills itself as “Wikipedia meets TED talks” and features an interview with Dr. Werth describing his use of 3D printing with collaborators in The Netherlands to simulate baleen. Dr. Werth will spend April in Alaska working on his research and will return to full-time duty at Hampden-Sydney in the fall.