It was a super busy week for our lab at the annual North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium meeting in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This is a fantastic opportunity to spend time with colleagues and collaborators that are hyper-focused on right whale efforts, and to learn about new projects in the field. We had a really fun and productive meeting. Abby presented a poster on her movement model, which excited several of the seasoned researchers because it provides an opportunity to model whale presence when detection efforts are unavailable. Amadi presented a poster about her news project, which will be a completely new way of thinking about public perception of this species and the motivation behind policy implementation. Emily presented a poster looking at the co-occurrence of right whale sightings and AIS vessel detections across the full right whale habitat, which gives a valuable, broad overview of vessel strike risk. Erin gave a talk summarizing the National Academy of Sciences report on potential impacts of wind turbines on the right whale prey environment. There were so many other great presentations and conversations, including a showing of the play "Between Breaths" at Neptune Theater. Can't wait for next year's meeting! Comments are closed.
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AuthorErin Meyer-Gutbrod is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina. Her lab researches human impacts to marine ecosysems. Archives
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