In early December, NOAA’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC) completed the 2024 California Current Cetacean and Ecosystem Assessment Survey (CalCurCEAS 2024). The main objective of this 4-month shipboard line-transect survey was to estimate population abundance and describe distributions of cetaceans in the California Current off the U.S. West Coast. Baird’s beaked whale. Photo credit: Felipe […]
New North Atlantic Right Whale Publication
North Atlantic right whale density surface model for the US Atlantic evaluated with passive acoustic monitoring In March, an open-access paper documenting the North Atlantic right whale version 12 density model was published in Marine Ecology Progress Series. Absolute density of the species was modeled using spatial, temporal, and environmental covariates at a monthly time […]
Recent occurrence of marine mammals and sea turtles off Angola and first report of right whales since the whaling era
On behalf of our coauthors from Creocean and TotalEnergies, Azura is pleased to announce the recent publication of our paper on marine mammals and sea turtles off Angola. The paper is published as Open Access, so anyone can download the pdf and supplementary file using this link. https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S0025315422001084 Citation: Whitt, A.D., A.M. Warde, L. Blair, […]
New PSOs Trained & Ready for Offshore Wind Development
Azura collaborated with Stockton University to develop and implement a Protected Species Observer (PSO) Certification Program. Funded by the renewable energy company Ørsted, this program provided training for six PSOs during the Stockton University’s Fall 2022 semester and focused on preparing PSOs for work on a variety of projects, including offshore wind construction projects in […]
Azura Awarded NEFSC Protected Species Branch Contract
Under NOAA’s ProTech Fisheries IDIQ contract, Azura was recently contracted by NOAA Fisheries to provide research services in support of the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC), Protected Species Branch (PSB) with offices in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and in Orono, Maine. This Branch conducts research on the distribution, ecological relationships, and […]
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