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Danielle and Andy are working with fishermen in the North Carolina pelagic longline fishery to trial a new acoustic deterrent, the Dolphin Interactive Dissuasive (DiD) device.  Pilot whales are believed to mainly eat squid, but some short-finned pilot whales interact with pelagic longline fishing gear and remove bait and hooked […]

Kristina Cammen was recently awarded a Special Event Award from the American Genetic Association to support her organization of an upcoming workshop entitled “Marine Mammal Genomics: Applications to evolution, ecology, and conservation.”  The workshop will be held December 8, immediately prior to the Society for Marine Mammalogy conference at the […]

Meagan is currently on the Kona Integrated Ecosystem Assessment (IEA) cruise with NOAA’s Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center. The goal of this cruise is to further our understanding of the unique marine ecosystem along the Kona Coast of the Big Island. Meagan is helping with active acoustics to study cetacean prey […]

Andy recently published a review of measures used to reduce by-catches of harbor porpoises in gill net fisheries of the Gulf of Maine in the journal Endangered Species Research.  The paper is part of a Special Theme Issue on reducing marine mammal by-catch in gill net fisheries. The Open Access […]

Meagan Dunphy-Daly is a coauthor on a new paper in Marine Ecology Progress Series describing some of her previous research in Shark Bay, Western Australia. The paper focuses on the trophic interactions between dolphins and sharks. You can download the paper here.

Joy is the first author on a new paper in PLoS One describing her work tracking singing humpback whales on Stellwagen Bank.  Her co-authors are Denise Risch and Sofie Van Parijs from NOAA Fisheries, which released a nice press release describing the work.

Read Lab members Kristina Cammen, Meagan Dunphy-Daly, and Amanda Kaltenberg have developed a “Predators of the Sea” traveling trunk for the North Carolina Maritime Museum. The traveling trunk was developed for 4th-6th grade students to learn about marine predators. Lessons focus on the differences between marine predators (e.g., sharks and dolphins), the […]