We recently encountered a group of approximately 50 Risso’s dolphins (Grampus griseus) while conducting a photo-ID and biopsy survey along the continental shelf break in Onslow Bay, NC. Risso’s dolphins are characteristic animals of the shelf break along the U.S. east coast, but we rarely see them in Onslow Bay. […]
Yearly Archives: 2012
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Read the latest depressing news on harbor porpoise management in New England in an op-ed piece by Carl Safina and Andy on National Geographic’s ‘Ocean Views’ site. You can find out more about the Harbor Porpoise Take Reduction Team here. We’d love to hear from you about innovative ways to reduce […]
Sara McDonald received a “Rethinking Regulation Graduate Research Award” from the Duke Rethinking Regulation Center at the Kenan Institute for Ethics. This award will help pay for Sara’s travel to marine mammal Take Reduction Team meetings, which will ultimately aid in her efforts to evaluate the social and ecological effectiveness […]
Congratulations to Haydee, who is working on the conservation of Antillean manatees in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. This grant, from the Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund, will allow Haydee to conduct interviews with fishermen in the Dominican Republic and Haiti to document current distribution patterns and historical trends in […]
For the past several months we’ve been studying behavioral responses of pilot whales to the sounds of predators off of Hatteras, NC. The objective of this project is to understand how pilot whales respond to the sounds of potential predators (e.g. killer whales), which share some characteristics with the sounds […]
We’re happy to welcome Heather back from conducting aerial surveys for bowhead whales and other marine mammals in northwestern Alaska. She was part of the Aerial Surveys of Arctic Marine Mammals survey team, co-ordinated by the National Marine Mammal Laboratory (NMML). In addition to bowheads, they recorded sightings of gray, humpback and […]
Kim, Danielle and Zach encountered the waterspout pictured above yesterday while working in the ocean off Oregon Inlet. Fortunately, no one was hurt when it came ashore. And our good friend Dale Britt, Captain of the F/V Sensation, encountered another waterspout in Onslow Bay (see below). Meagan and her crew […]
Congratulations to Meagan, who was recently awarded a national Graduate Fellowship in Population Dynamics from NOAA and Sea Grant. This Fellowship, valued at $96,000, will provide three years of funding and allow Meagan to work with collaborators at the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center in Honolulu. Meagan’s dissertation research is […]
Congratulations to Wendy Dow Piniak, who has been selected as a John A. Knauss Marine Policy fellow! The fellowship provides a unique educational experience to students who have an interest in ocean, coastal and Great Lakes resources and in the national policy decisions affecting those resources. The program matches highly […]
The Marine Science & Conservation Lecture Series, which has been in existence for the past two years, gives graduate students, post-docs, and junior faculty from the Duke Marine Lab the opportunity to share their research with other nearby universities with programs in marine science. This year, two Read Lab students, […]