Sentences with phrase «sea mammal research»

Mike Fedak's team at the Sea Mammal Research Unit in Scotland has recruited seals as oceanographers.

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Another theory, which the University of Victoria's research supports, is that they were sea mammal hunters and travelled by boat.

Once thought to be a «killer walrus» that ate marine mammals, new tooth enamel research is bolstering the case that it likely had a diet similar modern New Zealand fur seals and sea lions.

According to guidelines based on several years — and $ 10 million — of environmental - impact research, the Navy is not permitted to use the low - frequency sonar within 12 nautical miles of any coastline, in any marine sanctuary, near any marine - mammal «biologically important area,» or in polar seas.

«NASA backed us on research related to the biodiversity and ecology of Arctic marine mammals, as well as the development of metrics for the loss of sea ice, their habitat.»

With two research icebreakers, over 100 geologists and geographers from Canada and the United States, three Inuit mammal spotters on the watch for vulnerable wildlife, and two underwater autonomous vehicles that can operate beneath sheet ice, a geological survey team set out last night to crush their way through the last untrammelled regions of the Arctic, mapping the sea floor as they go.

Jolie Harrison works at NOAA managing programs to implement the Marine Mammal Protection Act and the Endangered Species Act that: 1) allow for incidental marine mammal take resulting from activities such as military training or seismic surveys, and 2) allow for research, enhancement, and photography of marine mammals and ESA - listed fish and sea tuMammal Protection Act and the Endangered Species Act that: 1) allow for incidental marine mammal take resulting from activities such as military training or seismic surveys, and 2) allow for research, enhancement, and photography of marine mammals and ESA - listed fish and sea tumammal take resulting from activities such as military training or seismic surveys, and 2) allow for research, enhancement, and photography of marine mammals and ESA - listed fish and sea turtles.

A current major research focus for SEA is studies of marine mammal communication and behavior and how each changes as a function of sound exposure.

Our goal was to research marine mammals and sea turtles and also study the MMSC's mission statement.

The Elephant Seal Research Group is an independent organization of researchers dedicated to the study of elephant seals, marine mammals, and marine megafauna at large.We currently operate in the Falkland Islands, and our main field work site is Sea Lion island.

Mark has been living in the San Juan Islands for three decades, while conducting research on birds and marine mammals, teaching natural history classes, and guiding sea kayak tours.

These include conducting marine mammal research and conservation as well as providing responsible wildlife viewing experiences such as daily tours, multi-day tours, lodge - based excursions, sea kayak based adventures, cruise ship based tours and wilderness camping adventures.

In August of 2013, Mike Meyer from Oceans & Coasts (from the South African Water and Environmental Affairs Ministry), Nico de Bryn (University of Pretoria) and Greg Hofmeyer (from BayWorld, in Port Elizabeth), all of whom have vast experience in marine mammal management and elephant seals, met with the South African Association for Marine Biological Research (SAAMBR) CEO, Judy Mann and the uShaka Sea World Veterinary and Animal Care team to discuss the way forward for Selso.

They are continue to kill a sea mammal that does not belong to their country, is endangered, they do it under the umbrella of «scientific research» when there are non-lethal ways to conduct the same research and whale meat is in huge over-supply in Japan yet they continue to hunt more whales.

Marine Protected Species Management; Sustainable Fisheries; Marine Conservation Research and Management; Marine Mammal and Sea Turtle Research; Geospatial Analysis

His research has examined traditional knowledge of marine mammals and sea ice, the impacts of climate change on Arctic communities, the regulation of subsistence hunting, and other topics.

Huntington's research activities include reviewing the regulation of subsistence hunting in northern Alaska, documenting traditional ecological knowledge of beluga whales and bowhead whales, examining Iñupiat Eskimo and Inuit knowledge and use of sea ice, and assessing the impacts of climate change on Arctic communities and Arctic marine mammals.