Join us at the Dallas Arboretum on 27 April 2019 to celebrate Earth Day! We are partnering with the School of Natural Sciences & Mathematics at The University of Texas at Dallas to provide hands-on K-12 activities on geology, chemistry, marine life, space, physics, and more. Azura’s scientists and volunteers will introduce kids and parents to […]
Marine Megafauna Study Off Senegal & Mauritania
This October, Azura’s marine scientists studied the marine megafauna in deep waters off Senegal and Mauritania for Creocean as part of an Environmental Baseline Study (EBS) for Total Exploration & Production. Total is the 5th biggest energy producer in the world. The goal of these EBSs was to characterize the habitat and biodiversity of two […]
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 […]
Meet Azura’s New Intern!
We recently welcomed a new intern to the Azura team. Hannah Hanson is currently pursuing a bachelor of science degree in environmental science at Texas A&M University-Commerce. She was unsure of the career path she wanted to take until she attended an environmental science course at Collin College. During this semester, Hannah is studying about […]
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 […]
