Wow, what a week! Usually the ECS is a meeting which brings together experts from all over the world to share knowledge and new discoveries, promote international collaboration and generally act as a reminder as to why the marine mammal community works so hard to try and achieve what they can with limited resources. Unfortunately, this could not happen this year because of the current global pandemic and so instead, refusing to be beaten by the current situation, the ECS organised an online webinar of presentations. The event has been incredibly well organised and allowed a much larger array of attendees to learn and contribute from the event. Talks have come in many forms ranging from an inspiring talk from Dr. Greg Donovan about the future of marine mammal conservation and our combined responsibilities as scientists to talks all about whale poo and the effects of whales as ocean engineers by Dr. Heidi Pearson.