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  This past week we’ve been working on our Deep Divers project – looking at the feeding ecology and diving behavior of three species of deep-diving odontocetes off Cape Hatteras: Cuvier’s beaked whales, short-finned pilot whales and sperm whales.  The latter have yet to make an appearance, so we’ve been focusing […]

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 […]

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 […]

    We are proud to have joined the Palmer Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) team, studying the the ecology of the Antarctic Peninsula, supported by the National Science Foundation. This is a six-year project and our component is led by Read Lab alum Ari Friedlaender, now a faculty member at Oregon […]

We wrapped up this season’s satellite tagging project with Daniel Webster and Cascadia Research Collective with an incredibly successful day on the water last Tuesday.  Our project is focused on the behavior of several deep-diving odontocete species off Cape Hatteras, including short-finned pilot whales, Risso’s dolphins and bottlenose dolphins.   […]

On Thursday we headed out on the R/V Barber with the intention of deploying satellite tags on beaked and pilot whales.  This is a continuation of the satellite tagging effort we conducted earlier in the summer with Daniel Webster and Robin Baird from the Cascadia Research Collective.  We headed offshore […]

Last month Andy attended the fifth meeting of the International Recovery Team for the Vaquita,  known as CIRVA.  The full report of the meeting is available here on the web site of IUCN Cetacean Specialist Group, but here is a brief summary of the dire state of the species. The […]

  June 27th marked the end of a very successful summer field season.  After waiting for workable weather for almost a week, the wind finally died down on Friday, only to be replaced by rain and thunderstorms.  We waited out the lightning and the rain at the Oregon Inlet Fishing […]