Sentences with phrase «university whale researcher»

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University of Queensland and CSIRO PhD student Viv Tulloch, affiliated with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, said this was the first time researchers had used this approach to predict future Southern Hemisphere whale numbers.

Researchers at U.C. San Diego and San Diego State University have imaged whale skulls in an attempt to determine the effects of sonar on whale hearing.

Killer whales need to eat at least seven otters a day to meet minimal nutritional needs, according to calculations by researchers at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Syracuse University biologist Holly Root - Gutteridge analyzed recordings of whale calls to see if researchers could use those sounds to identify individual whales.

A new species of fossil baleen whale that lived in the North Pacific Ocean 30 to 33 million years ago has been described by researchers from New Zealand's University of Otago.

Researchers at Rice University in Houston, Texas, published work in The Journal of Biological Chemistry comparing the oxygen carrying proteins of whales, humans, and other deep - diving mammals and found that the whales have an ultrastable version, allowing them to stay submerged for long periods of time.

In September 2014, the same international team of researchers, guided by Giovanni Bianucci from Pisa University (Italy), found a partial skeleton of a mysticete whale in a rock boulder.

«These are the first direct measurements of individual responses for any baleen whale species to these kinds of mid-frequency sonar signals,» said Brandon Southall, SOCAL - BRS chief scientist from SEA, Inc., and an adjunct researcher at both Duke and the University of California Santa Cruz.

To find out just how unique, researchers from Syracuse University in New York analyzed the «upcalls» of 13 whales whose vocalizations had been collected from suction cup sensors attached to their backs.

Root - Gutteridge's newest investigation «A lifetime of changing calls: North Atlantic right whales, Eubalaena Glacialis, refine call production as they age,» a collaborative research project with researchers from Syracuse University, Cornell University, Duke University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Northeast fisheries office, was recently published in the March edition of the journal Animal Behaviour.

Researchers from The University of Western Australia and Australian Institute of Marine Science, (AIMS) and collaborators across the Indian Ocean have completed a huge photo - identification study to assess the seasonal habits of whale sharks in the tropics.

«This provides us with a really good idea of what the most ancient baleen whales were like,» says researcher Erich Fitzgerald of Monash University, Melbourne.

The whale shares idea was first proposed in the January 12, 2012, issue of Nature by one of us (Gerber) and two other researchers: Christopher Costello, the lead author, and Steven Gaines, both at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

«Researchers at the University of St. Andrews have found that the noise made by offshore wind farms can interfere with a whale's sonar, and can in tragic cases see them driven onto beaches where they often

To prevent these ship strikes, NOAA Fisheries, alone with researchers from Oregon State University and the University of Maryland, has created a new tool that can predict where blue whales are likely to be congregating so that ships can avoid the «hotspots» and both ship and whale can continue their journey safely.

Now researchers from NOAA Fisheries, Oregon State University and the University of Maryland have combined that trove of tracking data with satellite observations of ocean conditions to develop the first system for predicting locations of blue whales off the West Coast.