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 […]
25th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals
Culture and Conservation: Fishing for Change Perth, Western Australia November 11–15, 2024 Over 1,500 marine mammalogists from over 75 countries attended the Society for Marine Mammalogy’s in-person-only 25th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals in Perth this November. The conference theme “Culture and Conservation: Fishing for Change” focused on the intersection of marine […]
Protecting Whales: The Role of the Yachting Community
On December 4, 2024, Azura’s CEO, Amy Whitt, had the privilege to participate as a panelist alongside industry leaders to discuss whale populations and the efforts being done to reduce environmental impact within the yachting community. The panel was moderated by Gill Rodrigues of The International SeaKeepers Society and included valuable insight from Matt Zimmerman […]
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 […]
Azura Records Right Whales & Other Large Whales in the Mid-Atlantic
Between 5 January and 6 March 2024, Azura conducted systematic line-transect aerial surveys to determine the distribution and relative abundance of large whales off the coasts of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey. The study area ranged from the New York Bight to south of Virginia Beach, Virginia. The primary target of these surveys was […]
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