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 […]
Monthly Archives: May 2015
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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 […]