Today we deployed 3 long-term passive acoustic monitoring instruments on the shelf along the coast of Georgia. The instruments are ST600s, and they will listen for baleen whale vocalizations over the next four months. We built a custom mooring for each instrument out of a car tire, cement and rebar. This mooring design has no ropes (i.e. to connect the instruments to buoys, weights or auxiliary moorings) so that we do not add to the risk of entanglement for the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale. We deployed these instruments from Skidaway's vessel the R/V Blanton, and will return at the end of the right whale calving season to collect our instruments and analyze the archived data. |
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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