We wrapped up this season’s satellite tagging project with Daniel Webster and Cascadia Research Collective with an incredibly successful day on the water last Tuesday. Our project is focused on the behavior of several deep-diving odontocete species off Cape Hatteras, including short-finned pilot whales, Risso’s dolphins and bottlenose dolphins. […]
Yearly Archives: 2014
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On Thursday we headed out on the R/V Barber with the intention of deploying satellite tags on beaked and pilot whales. This is a continuation of the satellite tagging effort we conducted earlier in the summer with Daniel Webster and Robin Baird from the Cascadia Research Collective. We headed offshore […]
Last month Andy attended the fifth meeting of the International Recovery Team for the Vaquita, known as CIRVA. The full report of the meeting is available here on the web site of IUCN Cetacean Specialist Group, but here is a brief summary of the dire state of the species. The […]
June 27th marked the end of a very successful summer field season. After waiting for workable weather for almost a week, the wind finally died down on Friday, only to be replaced by rain and thunderstorms. We waited out the lightning and the rain at the Oregon Inlet Fishing […]
We wrapped up our spring satellite tagging project with Daniel Webster of Cascadia on June 11 and 12. On the first day we had Joel Bell from the Navy along with us and he turned out to be very good luck and an excellent videographer. We had great conditions […]
Daniel Webster from Cascadia flew back from Montana this week to work with us deploying more satellite tags on large odontocetes off Cape Hatteras. We were also fortunate to have Dr. Emer Rogan, from University College Cork in Ireland, working with us for two days as part of her […]
Yesterday we managed another successful day off Cape Hatteras, despite marginal working conditions (Beaufort Sea State 4 for much of the day). We had four sightings – each of a different species – and managed to deploy two satellite-linked tags and obtain two biopsy samples. Our first […]
This May and June, Duke University, the Cascadia Research Collective, the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are collaborating on a research project to learn more about the movements and diving behavior of odontocete cetaceans off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. This research is […]
In late April, Andy participated in a two-day workshop on the conservation of Irrawaddy dolphins (Orcaella brevirostris) in the Mekong River, Cambodia. The workshop was convened by WWF’s Greater Mekong Project, supported by WWF and the Marine Mammal Commission and involved international scientists from the IUCN Cetacean Specialist Group, staff from […]
In our 2013 field season we managed to apply two suction cup digital acoustic tags to Antarctic minke whales. The recordings made by these tags helped to solve a decades-old mystery of the source of the ‘bio-duck’ sound which has been commonly heard in the Antarctic but never before attributed […]