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 […]
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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 […]
The BRS field team was back out in the R/V Barber on Sunday, July 14 to deploy more satellite tags on goose-beaked whales (Ziphius cavirostris) prior to our Controlled Exposure Experiment (CEE) trial with a Navy destroyer later this month. Seas were lumpy at the beginning of the trip but […]