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...

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...

At the top of our list of objectives for SOCAL-BRS is to obtain direct measurements of the responses of beaked whales to simulated military sonar.  Yesterday we had remarkably fair seas (as in zero wind for almost the whole day), which are the conditions required for...

Thursday started off calm but foggy.  This can be a little interesting coming out of Long Beach across the busy shipping lanes, but this is where the animals live.  Our objective today was to retrieve some of the tags deployed yesterday that had still been riding...

Well, after the first four days of this second leg of SOCAL-11 with no suction cup tag attachments and marginal weather conditions we had a good day today.  We attached a total of five tags on three blue whales and a Risso’s dolphin and conducted the third-ever CEE on...