Every day working on pelagic cetaceans off Cape Hatteras is interesting and we seldom have a field day without learning something new. On Saturday, August 1st we were planning to conduct a Controlled Exposure Trial with simulated Continuous Active Sonar (CAS) signals played by our custom sound source to several tagged […]
Yearly Archives: 2026
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We had an extremely productive day on Friday, July 17th. The R/V Shearwater departed from Beaufort on the afternoon of the 16th and steamed overnight to the shelf break off Cape Hatteras. The tagging crew was on the R/V Barber, and transited from Oregon Inlet at first light on Friday morning. The two […]
After waiting patiently for some calm offshore weather, we finally had a good start to the 2026 Atlantic BRS field season this week. We were able to spend two full days at our field site 40 nautical miles off Cape Hatteras and encountered a large number of goose-beaked whales, our […]
We are proud to report the publication of our paper “Behavioral responses of goose-beaked whales (Ziphius cavirostris) to simulated military sonar” in the journal Ecosphere. You can access the full text of the open access paper, led by Brandon Southall, here. The paper reports the results of a set of complex […]