SEA Office Warming Party
SEA, Inc. had the pleasure recently of christening our little office, with fresh ocean-themed paint and everything (thanks Kristin!). It was a wonderful time with great food, live music, and friends new and old, family, and colleagues. We are so fortunate to have...
NEW PUBLICATION: A New Context-Based Approach to Assess Marine Mammal Behavioral Responses to Anthropogenic Sounds
Please note the following recent publication in Conservation Biology, co-authored by SEA, Inc. President and Senior Scientist Brandon Southall. Conservation Biology, Volume **, No. *, 1–8 2011, Society for Conservation Biology published online: DOI:...
END SOCAL-11
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...
Last days of SOCAL-11
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...
Steaming, orcas, and Channel Islands Geology
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...