by crabman | Sep 8, 2014 | SEA News
Today marked the start of our second field phase of SOCAL-14. We are fortunate to have two full weeks of field effort to find, follow, tag, and study the behavior of different cetacean species in the beautiful Channel Islands off Southern California. For those of you...
by crabman | Aug 20, 2014 | SEA News
Please check out a recent story in a local SOCAL newspaper (The Daily Breeze) on the SOCAL-BRS research project. See the link below as well as the lead-in to the article <http://m.dailybreeze.com/dailybreeze/pm_115632/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=KoeVGqEd>...
by crabman | Aug 8, 2014 | SEA News
We’ve come to the end of our first phase (of three or possibly four) for SOCAL-14. This was a bit shorter than typical (10 days) for our research phases using the R/V Truth as a platform. We finished off our field work with an open public presentation and discussion...
by crabman | Aug 4, 2014 | SEA News
There was a decent weather window for SOCAL-14 to work offshore the last there days. We had workable conditions with acoustic detections and sightings of a few beaked whales, which are our priority species when we are able to work in areas around the Navy range west...
by crabman | Aug 1, 2014 | SEA Publications
Dr. Jeremy Goldbogen of Hopkins Marine Station (Stanford University) lead a team of SOCAL-BRS researchers in publishing a recent paper on new techniques to identify calling fin whales. This method involves using the accelerometers (movement sensors) in combination...