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 […]

Dr. Brandon Southall gave an invited “Visionary Research” presentation at the recent ONR Science and Technology Expo in Washington D.C. This expo highlights cutting edge research and innovative technology supported by ONR. Given their long-standing support of marine mammal research in a wide variety of areas, including sound and it’s potential effects. Dr. Southall’s lecture […]

On behalf of the SOCAL-BRS project, I am happy to announce the publication of another paper resulting from our work. Lead by Dr. Jeremy Goldbogen of Stanford’s Hopkins Marine Station with a number of colleagues from the SOCAL-BRS team, this paper focuses on the fine-scale kinematics of foraging behavior in endangered blue whales and how […]