by crabman | Sep 17, 2013 | SEA News
We have been focused on baleen whales the last few days in the SOCAL-13 project, primarily fin whales. Over the past three days we deployed ten tags on fin whales (and one on a blue whale) and ran two CEEs plus a full control sequence with a total of seven tagged...
by crabman | Sep 12, 2013 | SEA News
We’re very glad to be back together for this last phase of our SOCAL-BRS project for 2013. We pushed out from Santa Barbara yesterday and came south in pretty good weather. A group of humpback whales has been working in some mixed-species aggregations chasing fish in...
by crabman | Aug 9, 2013 | SEA News
We have come to the end of the first full research phase for the SOCAL-BRS project in 2013. In terms of our success with the high-priority beaked whale species, this was the most successful period we have had in this project. We had two successful tag deployments (see...
by crabman | Aug 5, 2013 | SEA News
We’ve been offshore for another few days on the first phase of our SOCAL-13 experiment and just back in to recharge for our last few days. We have had reasonably good conditions the last few days and have been searching for beaked whales but haven’t had the luck with...
by crabman | Aug 2, 2013 | SEA News
Sorry for the radio silence with the SOCAL-13 blog. We have had very good offshore conditions and great success accordingly! In fact, the last five days have seen multiple beaked whale tags deployed and multiple groups seen with many other near-miss approaches, which...
