The vaquita is the most endangered whale, dolphin, or porpoise in the world. The remnant population of less than 100 animals lives in a tiny area in the northern Gulf of California. The Government of Mexico is working to conserve the species, but it is threatened by an illegal fishery […]
Yearly Archives: 2015
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We wrapped up our early summer field season this week with three excellent days off Cape Hatteras. Overall, we deployed 15 satellite-linked transmitters: 10 on short-finned pilot whales, 3 on Cuvier’s beaked whales and one each on a pelagic bottlenose dolphin and a sperm whale (our first tag deployment on […]
This past week we’ve been working on our Deep Divers project – looking at the feeding ecology and diving behavior of three species of deep-diving odontocetes off Cape Hatteras: Cuvier’s beaked whales, short-finned pilot whales and sperm whales. The latter have yet to make an appearance, so we’ve been focusing […]
Joe Roman, Dave Johnston, Meagan Dunphy-Daly and Andy recently published a paper in Trends in Ecology and Evolution on the recovery of some populations of marine mammals. Using elephant seals, gray seals and humpback whales as examples, we discuss the challenges facing managers when populations of these marine predators recover […]
We’re now almost half-way through our spring field season – we’ve been busy working off Cape Hatteras for the past two weeks. We have deployed six satellite-linked transmitters on pilot whales and one more on a pelagic bottlenose dolphin. Two of the tags we have deployed on pilot whales also transmit data on […]
This spring we are once again deploying satellite tags on whales and dolphins off Cape Hatteras with Daniel Webster from the Cascadia Research Collective. Yesterday (May 16th) was our first day of real work and we managed to deploy three satellite tags on short-finned pilot whales. Two of the tags will […]
We are proud to have joined the Palmer Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) team, studying the the ecology of the Antarctic Peninsula, supported by the National Science Foundation. This is a six-year project and our component is led by Read Lab alum Ari Friedlaender, now a faculty member at Oregon […]