We are pleased to announce that Azura was recently awarded a Professional and Technical (ProTech) services contract by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The ProTech services solution is a suite of multiple-award Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracts consisting of five Domains: Satellite, Ocean, Fisheries, Weather, and Enterprise Operations. Each Domain has its […]
Post-hurricane Assessment & Restoration of Coral Reefs in Puerto Rico
During this past spring, Azura partnered with Sea Ventures Marine Response Unit (MRU) to assess impacts to coral reefs in Puerto Rico from Hurricanes Maria and Irma. During 2017, Hurricanes Maria and Irma wreaked havoc on Puerto Rico. After Category 5 Irma skirted north of the main island on 6 September, Category 4 Maria struck Puerto […]
Marine Mammal Conference Presentation
Fins & Faces: Using Photo-identification to Study Dolphins & Whales Over 1,700 scientists, managers, policy makers, and students attended the 22nd Biennial Society for Marine Mammalogy Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals during October 22-27, 2017, at the Halifax Convention Centre in Nova Scotia, Canada. A common theme throughout the conference was the conservation […]
The Vaquita Porpoise Comes to Plano
On 2 November 2017, Collin College hosted “Net Loss: The Vanishing Vaquita Porpoise” at the Spring Creek Campus Living Legends Conference Center in Plano, Texas. This free event was dedicated to raising awareness of the most endangered marine mammal species in the world, the vaquita. We brought the plight of this tiny porpoise from Mexico […]
LADC-GEMM 2017 Survey
The Littoral Acoustic Demonstration Center-Gulf Ecological Monitoring and Modeling (LADC-GEMM) Consortium recently conducted a visual and acoustics survey for marine mammals in the northern Gulf of Mexico. The main goal of this study was to quantify short-term and long-term changes in baseline ambient noise levels and marine mammal distribution in the Mississippi Canyon region near […]
