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Linking local oceanographic conditions with cetacean occurrence near the South Shetland Is — NSF Award to University of California

Cetaceans are a group of marine mammals that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises. Cetacean studies are particularly challenging in the Southern Ocean because conditions largely limit visual surveys to the austral summer. Passive acoustic monitoring has improved knowledge of cetacean distribution by allowing autonom

Award titleLinking local oceanographic conditions with cetacean occurrence near the South Shetland Is
Award ID2427458
AwardeeUniversity of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanogra
CityLA JOLLA
StateCA
Amount obligated$170,879
Principal investigatorSimone Baumann-Pickering
ProgramANT Organisms & Ecosystems
Start date05/01/2025
AbstractCetaceans are a group of marine mammals that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises. Cetacean studies are particularly challenging in the Southern Ocean because conditions largely limit visual surveys to the austral summer. Passive acoustic monitoring has improved knowledge of cetacean distribution by allowing autonomous, year-round data collection. By comparing cetacean acoustic presence with concurrent oceanographic conditions, this project aims to better predict how cetaceans in the Southern
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