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Marine Species Monitoring Blog
Passive acoustic monitoring for right whales off Cape Hatteras
Posted on October 21, 2013
Spinnaker sighted off Virginia Beach
Posted on September 25, 2013
Atlantic sea turtle tagging project is underway!
Posted on July 17, 2013
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2025
January
Winter is here in Virginia, and so are the seals!
Aerial Surveys to Confirm Seal Haul-out Sites in Virginia
2024
December
Right whale calf sighted off Virginia!
July
Successful CEE Trial with the USS Thomas Hudner
Males have joined the turtle tagging party
First Satellite Tag Deployments for Atlantic BRS 2024
June
Back in the turtle tagging business
Mesoplodon mysterioso
Whales of Summer
NEW RIGHT WHALE CALF SEEN OFF VIRGINIA!
February
Kauai' Field Work Updates
Seal Tagged in 2022 is Back Again!
Seal Surveillance Continues!
January
Large Whale Action in the Mid-Atlantic
2023
November
Using drones to study whales from a new perspective
Humpbacks - New visitors and familiar friends in the Mid-Atlantic
It’s Whale Season in the Mid-Atlantic!
March
Coming full circle – right whale mom returns with calf
February
Right Whale Party in the Mid-Atlantic
An Urban Whale
2022
December
Passive Acoustic Monitoring off the coast of Guam
November
Right whales are on the move!
September
Cuvier's from Cape to Canyon
August
Atlantic BRS – 2022 CEE with the USS Farragut
August 2022 Kaua‘i Field Project
March
Seal tagging resumes in Southeast Virginia
NARW tagged off VA Beach!
2021
October
Pinniped season has begun in SE Virginia
August
Atlantic BRS - First CEE of 2021
July
Atlantic Behavioral Response Study kicks off 2021 field season
April
Blue whale tagged off the coast of Virginia
March
Tracking an endangered North Atlantic right whale
Drone footage of a blue whale off the coast of Virginia!
February
Drone footage of humpback whale bubble-net feeding off the coast of Virginia
January
Fantastic video of an encounter with North Atlantic right whales off the coast of Virginia Beach
New acoustic monitoring buoy helps researchers study and protect North Atlantic Right Whales
Entangled humpback whale
2020
July
Atlantic BRS - First CEE of 2020
2019
August
Atlantic BRS - Multi-scale CEE Success!
March
Fin and blue whale feeding aggregation observed in Norfolk Canyon study area
One Whale, Two Tags
January
Sowerby's beaked whales encountered at Norfolk Canyon
2018
September
Sowerby's beaked whale tagged offshore of Virginia
May
Atlantic BRS 2018 Field Work is Underway
April
Blue whales and sei whales and right whales - OH MY!!!
February
Seal Tagging Team Win!
January
Repeat tagging customers to humpback monitoring project
2017
December
First Harbor Seal Haul-Out Survey of the Season in Virginia
August
Sperm whales tagged off Virginia Beach
June
'Purple Heart' sea turtle released back into the ocean
May
Atlantic BRS 2017!!!
2016
June
Bonus tagging in JAX
Banner day tagging odontocetes at Hatteras!
May
Tagging North Atlantic Right Whales
April
Humpback whales in the Marianas
February
Seals - The Sun-bathing Beauties of Rhode Island and Virginia
January
Tagging Atlantic Humpbacks
2015
November
Hatteras tagging wraps up for 2015
August
Panama City Dolphin Survey Complete!
May
Turtle Tagging Season Has Begun!
April
Great Day for a Mid-Atlantic Offshore Survey
February
Fin Whales Sighted off Kaua'i
2014
December
Humpbacks Have Arrived!!!
October
White “Leucistic” Bottlenose Dolphin Seen on Marine Mammal Survey
Hawaii Technical Review Meeting
September
Tagging Deep Diving Odontocetes Off Cape Hatteras - Part 3
July
Underwater Detonation Monitoring at Silver Strand
May
Tagging Whales Off Cape Hatteras
March
Atlantic Technical Review Meeting
North Alantic Right Whale Disentanglement
2013
November
Sea Turtle Rehabilitation and Release
October
Cape Hatteras Field Work Update
Passive acoustic monitoring for right whales off Cape Hatteras
September
Spinnaker sighted off Virginia Beach
July
Atlantic sea turtle tagging project is underway!
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