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New Paper on Foraging Behaviour of Hawaiian Monk Seals
Kenady Wilson has published the first paper from her dissertation in the journal Royal Society Open Science. The paper describes the foraging behavior of monk seals in the main Hawaiian Islands, […]
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Ocean Station Obama
The Palmer LTER crew recognized President Obama’s efforts to combat global warming by collecting climate data at an oceanographic station they named for the 44th president. The scientific crew, including […]
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BOEM Denies Atlantic Seismic Permits
On Friday, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) denied six applications to conduct seismic surveys with air guns in Atlantic waters. This puts a stop, at least for now, […]
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Last Chance for the Vaquita
In April Andy will join a team of international experts who will attempt to capture some of the last remaining vaquitas and move them into a sanctuary in the Upper […]
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More on Vaquita Conservation
CIRVA, the international recovery team for the vaquita, has asked an international group of experts to consider ex situ (out-of-habitat) options for conservation of the species. These options include the capture and housing […]
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Field Work Update
After a couple weeks of wind and rain, the weather gods smiled on us last week, and afforded us a chance to start our third year of satellite tagging […]
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Update on the Vaquita
In May Andy attended the seventh meeting of CIRVA – the international recovery team for the vaquita. The team reviewed the results of the 2015 survey, which found only about […]
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2016 Antarctic Field Season
Doug Nowacek, Ari Friedlaender, Erin Puckett and Logan Pallin (a Duke undergraduate and now one of Ari’s master’s students at Oregon State) are on their way to the Antarctic to study […]
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Conservation of the Vaquita
The vaquita is the most endangered whale, dolphin, or porpoise in the world. The remnant population of less than 100 animals lives in a tiny area in the northern Gulf […]
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Beaked and Sperm Whales off Cape Hatteras
We wrapped up our early summer field season this week with three excellent days off Cape Hatteras. Overall, we deployed 15 satellite-linked transmitters: 10 on short-finned pilot whales, 3 on […]
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Beaked Whales and Potheads
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 […]
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New Paper on Marine Mammal Population Recovery in TREE
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, […]
