Back From Offshore
Apologies for those of you that have been following the SOCAL-BRS blog for our 2014 field efforts for the few days delay (and thanks for the emails checking in on us!). We have been well offshore working the last three days and out of cell and internet range to get...
SOCAL-14 Phase II Start – Coastal Blue Whales First
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...
Local media coverage of SOCAL-BRS outreach
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>...
SOCAL-14 Phase I ends – with an open public forum at Cabrillo Marine Aquarium
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...
Struck out offshore…Risso’s off Catalina
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...