NPR story on ongoing elephant seal research
SEA’s own Caroline Casey was recently featured on NPR’s Morning Edition for her fantastic work on elephant seal acoustic behavior as part of her graduate work at UC Santa Cruz. The story is online and has some neat examples of elephant seal calls – please check it out...
New paper on integrated approaches to studying baleen whales – Ari Friedlaender on BioScience cover!
A new paper was recently published in BioScience, involving a number of SEA partners and BRS collaborators. Integrative Approaches to the Study of Baleen Whale Diving Behavior, Feeding Performance, and Foraging Ecology Jeremy A. Goldbogen, Ari S. Friedlaender, John...
NOAA Issues Cetacean and Sound Mapping Working Group Report
NOAA recently announced the release of a report from a workshop last summer on new tools for visualizing cetacean density and anthropogenic sound. The report is entitled: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 2012. Mapping Cetaceans and Sound: Modern Tools...
Dr. Ari Friedlaender’s Smithsonian Blog on Blue Whale Feeding
We are proud to note that our very own Ari Friedlaender wrote a great blog for the Smithsonian’s Ocean Hall on our recent paper lead by Jeremy Goldbogen on feeding mechanics in blue whales <see:...
New Paper on Blue Whale Feeding Behavior
We are proud to announce the publication of a new paper on blue whale feeding behavior that features tagging data collected within the Southern California Behavioral Response Study (SOCAL-BRS) project. The paper is entitled “Underwater acrobatics by the world’s...