On behalf of all the collaborators and partnering organizations that are a part of the amazing field research effort known as the Southern California Behavioral Response Study (SOCAL-BRS), I would like to make folks who follow our blog aware that we have just started another phase of field work in this continuing project. You can […]

    The SOCAL-BRS team is proud to announce the publication of an important new paper on the calling behavior of endangered fin whales (like the one below, tagged with one of the sensors described in the paper – credit J. Calambokidis under NMFS permit #14534). Dr. Alison Stimpert of Moss Landing Marine Laboratory led the […]

The new SOCAL-15 page on www.socal-brs.org is now available at: <http://sea-inc.net/socal-brs/socal-15/>. On this page you will find a public summary of our research plans for 2015 <http://sea-inc.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/SOCAL15-summary.pdf>. We expect to have our primary research efforts in August and October-November this year and we will provide a blog announcement of the beginning of the from-the-field blog […]

On behalf of the research team collaborating on the SOCAL-BRS project to study the behavior of marine mammals in southern California and their responses to human sounds including military sonar, I am pleased to report the completion of our 2014 annual research report. This includes some work that ran later in the season this year […]