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Who are you? Who, Who? Who, Who? Studying a cryptic marine mammal species by eDNA

By Lauren Jacobsen HICEAS Visiting Scientist Lauren is a Lab Associate with the Bioacoustics Research Program at Cornell University and practices veterinary medicine in western New York. She participated on a leg of HICEAS 2017 as a visiting scientist. In … Continue reading

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Cetacean Surveys of the Southern Mariana Islands: Rota (June 16-20, 2014)

by Marie Hill, Andrea Bendlin, Allan Ligon, Adam Ü, and Erin Oleson During 5 days of surveys off Rota, we covered 488 km of trackline and encountered 14 groups of cetacean species including  Blainville’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon densirostris), bottlenose dolphin … Continue reading

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Cetacean Surveys of the Southern Mariana Islands: Saipan, Tinian, and Aguijan (May 30-June 14, 2014)

by Marie Hill, Andrea Bendlin, Allan Ligon, and Adam Ü During the 14 days that we spent on the water surrounding Saipan, Tinian, and Aguijan, we surveyed over 1500km of trackline. We had 13 encounters with 5 different cetacean species … Continue reading

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