by crabman | Sep 28, 2011 | SEA News
We have been mainly in transit this morning back up to the northern Channel Islands so thought we would provide a quick from the field update and a little bit about the geology of the area where we are working. We are steaming west now in a heavy fog but just bumped...
by crabman | Sep 27, 2011 | SEA News
Today was a tag recovery day for SOCAL-11. The Rissos dolphin tag from yesterday afternoon rode around on the animal overnight and it was quite a ways from where we started. We again put someone on an island to listen for it and had both our small boats searching...
by crabman | Sep 26, 2011 | SEA News
Today the offshore forecast remained poor and the inshore seas were a mixture of swell and shop from different directions. With the conditions, we turned our attention back to Risso’s dolphins (below photo credit A. Friedlander, taken under NMFS permit #14534) and...
by crabman | Sep 25, 2011 | SEA News
At the top of our list of objectives for SOCAL-BRS is to obtain direct measurements of the responses of beaked whales to simulated military sonar. Yesterday we had remarkably fair seas (as in zero wind for almost the whole day), which are the conditions required for...
by crabman | Sep 23, 2011 | SEA News
Thursday started off calm but foggy. This can be a little interesting coming out of Long Beach across the busy shipping lanes, but this is where the animals live. Our objective today was to retrieve some of the tags deployed yesterday that had still been riding...
