In November 2025, our team deployed the R/V Barber from Jacksonville, Florida to conduct offshore vessel surveys and visual species-identification trials of marine mammal and sea turtle species in the Jacksonville Shallow Water Training Range (JSWTR) in cooperation with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Division Newport. Our total study area […]
Yearly Archives: 2025
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On Friday, September 19th we conducted a Controlled Exposure Experiment (CEE) trial with goose-beaked whales Ziphius cavirostris in our study area off Cape Hatteras. Our focal whale was ZcTag161, an adult male equipped with a satellite-linked dive recorder on September 4th. The focal whale was accompanied by three other goose-beaked whales […]
On Saturday, July 19th, we conducted a Controlled Exposure Trial with the USS Donald Cook, a Navy guided missile destroyer based in Mayport, Florida. The trial involved playing Continuous Active Sonar (CAS) signals from the destroyer to a constellation of eight satellite-tagged beaked whales off Cape Hatteras. We used real-time […]
We were very fortunate to have three good days of offshore weather off Cape Hatteras over this past weekend – some of the nicest conditions we have seen in a long time. Monday was particularly good, with mirror-like conditions for much of the morning. Days like this can be few […]
Field work for the 2025 Atlantic Behavioral Response Study (BRS) is underway. Our field team was on the water Saturday and Sunday, June 21-22, to deploy satellite-linked transmitters on goose-beaked whales Ziphius cavirostris. Our first scheduled Controlled Exposure Experiment (CEE) trial is a month away, so our task this weekend was […]
In February 2025, our team took the R/V Shearwater from North Carolina down to the waters offshore of Jacksonville, Florida to conduct vessel surveys and visual species-identification trials of marine mammal and sea turtle species in the Jacksonville Shallow Water Training Range (JSWTR). This baseline research and monitoring has been […]