by crabman | Oct 6, 2011 | SEA News
We have reached the end of SOCAL-11. While we had some challenges with weather (a few lightning storms near the end), personnel illnesses (nothing too serious but involved some shuffling), and a very different distribution of animals than the near-amazing abundance...
by crabman | Oct 1, 2011 | SEA News
We are wrapping things up here on the second leg of SOCAL-11. The winds have been calm and we have had a number of visual and acoustic detections the last few days offshore in the Santa Monica and Santa Cruz basins. However, our efforts have been somewhat...
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...
