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...

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...

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...

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...

We are happy to report on the start of our SOCAL Behavioral Response Study for the 2013 field season (SOCAL-13). After several days of field efforts offshore we are back in internet range to provide an update on our progress. As a reminder for those of you following...