We wrapped up our spring satellite tagging project with Daniel Webster of Cascadia on June 11 and 12. On the first day we had Joel Bell from the Navy along with us and he turned out to be very good luck and an excellent videographer. We had great conditions […]
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Daniel Webster from Cascadia flew back from Montana this week to work with us deploying more satellite tags on large odontocetes off Cape Hatteras. We were also fortunate to have Dr. Emer Rogan, from University College Cork in Ireland, working with us for two days as part of her […]
Yesterday we managed another successful day off Cape Hatteras, despite marginal working conditions (Beaufort Sea State 4 for much of the day). We had four sightings – each of a different species – and managed to deploy two satellite-linked tags and obtain two biopsy samples. Our first […]
This May and June, Duke University, the Cascadia Research Collective, the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are collaborating on a research project to learn more about the movements and diving behavior of odontocete cetaceans off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. This research is […]
In late April, Andy participated in a two-day workshop on the conservation of Irrawaddy dolphins (Orcaella brevirostris) in the Mekong River, Cambodia. The workshop was convened by WWF’s Greater Mekong Project, supported by WWF and the Marine Mammal Commission and involved international scientists from the IUCN Cetacean Specialist Group, staff from […]
In our 2013 field season we managed to apply two suction cup digital acoustic tags to Antarctic minke whales. The recordings made by these tags helped to solve a decades-old mystery of the source of the ‘bio-duck’ sound which has been commonly heard in the Antarctic but never before attributed […]
Haydee has been awarded a Faculty for the Future Fellowship from the Schlumberger Foundation. The fellowships carry renewable grants of up to $50,000 annually. They are awarded to women from developing and emerging economies pursuing PhD or postdoctoral studies in the physical sciences, engineering and technology, or interdisciplinary research between […]
Kristina presented her public seminar and defended her Ph.D. dissertation, The Influence of Genetic Variation on Susceptibility of Common Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) to Harmful Algal Blooms, on April 7th. Many thanks to her committee members, Drs. Rich DiGiulio, Eric Palkovacs, Patricia Rosel, Tom Schultz and Randy Wells, for all their […]
Monday, March 31st was a good day for whales, as the International Court of Justice ruled for Australia in the case it had brought against Japan regarding special permit catches of Antarctic whales. The decision, which Japan has said it will adhere to, means an end to the Japanese ‘scientific […]
Follow the blog as Andy and Kim travel to the Antarctic Peninsula with 20 Duke alumni on the L’Austral.