We are excited to share our new publication in the Journal of Experimental Biology , titled: Daily Energetic Expenditure and Energy Consumption of Short-Finned Pilot Whales ( https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-lookup/doi/10.1242/jeb.249821 ). The paper is accompanied by a JEB Spotlight  article.   Authors: William Gough, Brijonnay Madrigal, Augusta Hollers, Jens Currie, Robin Baird, Kristi West, Andreas Fahlman, Frank Fish, Lewis Evans, Martin van Aswegen, Brian Stir

Written by Cameron Nemeth We are pleased to share a new publication  in the Journal of Experimental Biology , entitled: The key to bubble-net feeding: How humpback whale morphology functionally differs from other baleen whales. Accompanying this publication is an Early Career Researcher Spotlight interview with Cameron. Authors: Cameron Nemeth , William Gough , Paolo Segre , Frank Fish , Andrew Szabo , Wesley Fassmann , Scott Thomson , Martin van Aswegen , Julia Burrows ,

Written by Cameron Nemeth I was fortunate to spend the last couple of weeks in a remote lagoon on the western shore of Baja California...

Written by Gussie Hollers Warm Springs bay in June This summer, I was very lucky to be able to spend two months with the Alaska Whale Foundation (AWF) to deploy Customized Animal Tracking Solutions (CATS) suction-cup tags  on humpback whales. This tag data, paired with data from Unoccupied Aerial Systems (UAS, drones), will help us better understand the energy budgets of whales using different foraging strategies. The goal of the third chapter of my dissertation is to quantif

Members of the MMRP and Pacific Whale Foundation spent the first half of November doing fieldwork off the coast of Lānaʻi. The primary goal of this fieldwork was to deploy Customized Animal Tracking Solutions (CATS) suction-cup tags  on false killer whales ( Pseudorca crassidens ) as part of Jens Currie ʻ dissertation research (read more about these tags and this project in last yearʻs Lānaʻi blog pos t!) Video made by Jens Currie featuring the tag deployment on a false kille

Written by Gussie Hollers Members of the MMRP spent the last ten days working with the Pacific Whale Foundation off the coast of Lānaʻi. The primary goal of this fieldwork was to deploy Customized Animal Tracking Solutions (CATS) suction-cup tags on false killer whales ( Pseudorca crassidens ) as part of the dissertation project for new MMRP graduate student Jens Currie . With this data, Jens will be able to gather new insights into the foraging ecology of the endangered Mai