Category: Alaska

Humpback whale foraging visualization video online!

We are excited to share with you below our new open access resource for teaching to help communicate science through data visualization.  Kaitlin Bonaro, a visiting undergraduate student at the Duke University Marine Lab, created this video as her independent study project this past spring in the Johnston Lab.  With the help of Dave Johnston…
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Humpback whale research in Southeast Alaska

We just returned from an amazingly successful field season tagging humpback whales and mapping their prey in the waters of Southeast Alaska.  We left from Sitka, AK on 16 April 2013 aboard an 80′ Yacht, the Northern Song (http://www.yachtalaska.com/pages/yacht.html) led by an experienced captain Dennis Rogers.  After a (planned) vessel transfer, we returned back to…
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