Under the auspices of The Whale Museum's Fellowship Program 32 independent investigators and almost 100 interns have been sponsored over the years, as well as four bachelor theses, five masters theses, and four doctoral theses in marine mammal conservation.

In one recent year, The Whale Museum sponsored six Interns, four Visiting Scientists, and Research Curator Dr. Richard Osborne's doctoral research at the University of Victoria. The Visiting Scientists included: 1) Dr. David Bain from the University of Washington; 2) Dr. Robert Otis from Ripon College who has been studying whale/boat interactions at Lime Kiln State Park over the last nine years; 3) Patrick Miller, a doctoral student at MIT & Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, who also worked on orca acoustics in collaboration with Dr. Bain; and 4) Jean Olsen, a graduate of the master's program at Huxley College, Western Washington University, who plotted Whale Hotline sighting data using a GIS (Geographical Information System) in collaboration with Richard Osborne.