Written by: Amy Whitt Excited, tired, and a little sunburned, our science team returned to the Louisiana bayou on 17 June 2017. We celebrated the success of the survey and how well our team worked together. One of our senior scientists even said that this was one of the best teams she has ever worked […]
Marine Mammals of the Jersey Shore
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: #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 […]
The Vaquita: A Porpoise in Peril
30…a classroom of students, a team of football players, and the number of vaquita left on Earth. These tiny, critically endangered porpoises live only in the northern Gulf of California in Baja California, Mexico, and their population is actually estimated to now be less than 30. Ironically, the number of family and friends that recently […]
