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Tag and CEE on a Risso's Dolphin
Yesterday we attched one of the new generation DTags on a Risso's dolphin for almost nine hours and conducted a perfect CEE. This was the longest successful attachment to date with the new version...
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Working offshore
We've had fairly good to excellent seas offshore the past few days and have put in some time trying to work some of our more difficult/less common species like beaked whales and sperm whales. In some...
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Trying for beakers...got offshore blues
We had good weather offshore today and we tried for most of the day well offshore in good visibility species looking for beaked whales. We surveyed fairly large areas of offshore banks and basins...
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SOCAL BRS team at work
Hey everyone. We've been working hard out here for the first 10 days of SOCAL-11, but we have also been having a little fun along the way and thought we would share a few photos from our team...
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Closer on fins...finally good offshore weather
We've had some pretty good conditions in deeper water the last few days and have had success finding baleen whales in deeper water and have spent a lot of time searching for beaked whales as well....
View ArticleClose...but no cigar
Well our offshore weather forecast didn't really pan out yesterday but we came close on a few priority species today. We worked up from Catalina by Santa Barbara Island yesterday and had very good...
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End SOCAL-11 Leg I
We have come to the end of the first leg of SOCAL-11. We worked offshore the last two days based on the forecast of light winds and calm seas, but this didn't entirely materialize. We worked up by...
View ArticleSpecial AGU Session: Acoustical Applications for Ocean Observing Systems
Hello everyone.I wanted me to call to your attention a Special Session at the 2012 AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting in Salt Lake City (http://www.sgmeet.com/osm2012/special_sessions13.asp). This session...
View ArticleBOEMRE releases workshop report on status of acoustic mitigation and monitoring
Related to the overall effort and progress mentioned in the last post, here is some information on a meeting I attended on acoustic monitoring technologies:The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management,...
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START SOCAL-11 leg II and NEW BLOG SITE!!!
Hi everyone -- two important things to announce here. First, we are all aboard the R/V Truth (below) and our sister sailing ship with towed passive acoustics ready to go for the second leg of SOCAL-11...
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