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: #7 Pilot Whales!
June 13, 2017 Written by: Alexandria Hahn Edited by: Amy Whitt On Tuesday, I had a personal sighting…and it also happened to be our first pilot whale sighting of the cruise! At first glance, what I thought I saw was a group of dolphins, and Amy said that the female pilot whale dorsal fins can […]
Passive Acoustic Monitoring Program for the Northern Gulf of Mexico
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) recently awarded a contract to HDR Environmental, Operations and Construction (HDR) to support BOEM’s Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) Program for the Northern Gulf of Mexico. The world is a noisy place. As humans, we contribute to the noise levels in the ocean through a variety of activities from shipping […]