Eba the dog started her life on the streets of Sacramento. Now, she spends much of her time at the front of a boat in the Salish Sea, sniffing out killer whale poop.

Eba’s owner is Deborah Giles, a killer whale scientist with the Seadoc Society, which uses science and education to advance the health of marine wildlife and their ecosystems.

The pair will be on Pender Island Friday evening, where Giles is scheduled to give a talk called From Poop to Policy , about what feces can tell us about the health of individual southern resident killer whales and the endangered population as a whole.

Giles’ sister found Eba in Sacramento and Giles adopted her, bringing her to San Juan Island, where she lives.

She and her husband, Jim Rappold, trained Eba to pick up the scent of whale po

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