The first ecological baseline study in advance of offshore wind development in U.S. waters was conducted in 2008-2010. This study included the first year-round, systematic surveys for marine mammals and sea turtles in nearshore waters off New Jersey. Results of these shipboard and aerial surveys were recently published in the Journal of Cetacean Research and […]
LADC-GEMM 2017 Survey: #8 Two for the Price of One!
June 14, 2017 Written by: Alexandria Hahn Edited by: Amy Whitt On Wednesday, we had a fairly large sighting comprised of dolphins. Through the “big eyes”, Danielle was seeing a group of bottlenose dolphins. She was able to confirm this because they were being very playful and spyhopping (bringing their heads up out of the […]
LADC-GEMM 2017 Survey: #6 Timing is Everything
June 10-12, 2017 Written by: Alexandria Hahn Edited by: Amy Whitt In the early hours of Saturday morning, I was asleep and I wish that I hadn’t been! The few scientists and crew members who were awake witnessed around five Clymene dolphins riding the bow of our ship. I had been told that it was […]
LADC-GEMM 2017 Survey: #5 Thar She Blows!
June 9, 2017 Written by: Alexandria Hahn Edited by: Amy Whitt My first field day was on June 9, 2017, and it was incredibly eventful. We had nine sightings in total, three of which were unidentified dolphin species. The others were sperm whale sightings, and they were AWESOME! Seeing these beautiful animals in the wild […]
LADC-GEMM 2017 Survey: #2 Through the Eyes of Youth
By Amy Whitt You graduate high school on a Friday and before even a week has passed you are packing up your teddy bear and heading out to sea on your first marine research expedition. This is any budding marine biologist’s dream! Many of us didn’t have our first at-sea research opportunity until we were […]
