In our 2013 field season we managed to apply two suction cup digital acoustic tags to Antarctic minke whales. The recordings made by these tags helped to solve a decades-old mystery of the source of the ‘bio-duck’ sound which has been commonly heard in the Antarctic but never before attributed to an animal. Thanks to …
Haydee has been awarded a Faculty for the Future Fellowship from the Schlumberger Foundation. The fellowships carry renewable grants of up to $50,000 annually. They are awarded to women from developing and emerging economies pursuing PhD or postdoctoral studies in the physical sciences, engineering and technology, or interdisciplinary research between physical and biological sciences, at …
Kristina presented her public seminar and defended her Ph.D. dissertation, The Influence of Genetic Variation on Susceptibility of Common Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) to Harmful Algal Blooms, on April 7th. Many thanks to her committee members, Drs. Rich DiGiulio, Eric Palkovacs, Patricia Rosel, Tom Schultz and Randy Wells, for all their help. Congratulations Dr. Cammen!
Monday, March 31st was a good day for whales, as the International Court of Justice ruled for Australia in the case it had brought against Japan regarding special permit catches of Antarctic whales. The decision, which Japan has said it will adhere to, means an end to the Japanese ‘scientific whaling’ program in the Antarctic, …