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Humpback whale in singing position. Photo credit NOAA / Dr. Louis M. Herman

Using the power of models to protect whales from possible ship-strikes

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Written by Dr. Anna Nisi We have been building cutting-edge models of species distributions for four great whale species – blue, fin, sperm, and humpback whales. One key threat to the great whales is collisions with shipping vessels, and identifying places where ship-strike risk is high is essential for informing mitigation actions like vessel slow-downs. Our next step is to […]

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Humpback whale breaching

Humpback whale sightings in northern Arctic Alaska

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Excerpt: “Here we bring together sighting data from aerial and shipboard surveys in the southern and central Chukchi Sea, as well as recent sightings of humpback whales near Utqiagvik, Alaska to document these observations more fully. Authors: Kathleen M. Stafford, John C. George, Qaiyaan Harcharek, Sue E. MooreJournal: Marine Mammal ScienceDOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.13051 Photo credit: Dr. Mridula Srinivasan NOAA/NMFS/OST/AMD [Humpback whale breaching. ]

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Changing course: Relocating commercial tanker lanes significantly reduces threat of chronic oiling for a top marine predator

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Authors: Eric L. Wagner, Esteban Frere, P. Dee BoersmaJournal: Marine Pollution BulletinDOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.11 Photo credit: National Ocean Service Image Gallery Summary Summary written by Sofia Denkovski Argentinian oil and effects on seabirds Surveys from 1982-1990 suggested more than 40,000 penguins died per year in Chubut and Santa Cruz from chronic oiling. This was hypothesized to be due to the colonies’

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Field updates: Readying the 2023 season

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After Assistant Professor of Biology and Boersma Endowed Chair Dr. Briana Abrahms and her team deployed GPS-audio wildlife tracking collars on African wild dogs and lions during the summer of 2022, Dr. Abrahms and Dr. Kasim Rafiq, a postdoc in the Abrahms Lab, have been working with industry collaborators to build AI models that detect behaviors (such as hunting) and hunger levels

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Field updates: Argentina, April 2023

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Photo credit: Eric Wagner Thanks to the generous support of Zoo Augsburg in Germany, Dr. Ginger Rebstock and Dr. Eric Wagner were able to return to Punta Tombo for a couple of weeks in April. There, they put twenty satellite tags on penguins—ten females and ten males—that were about to start their post-breeding migration. From last year’s tagging effort, we

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