MMRPFeb 172 minA trash day on the water... By Claire Lacey Standing on the beautiful beaches of O`ahu, you could easily be forgiven for thinking the ocean is pristine. The crystal...
MMRPJan 55 minResearching spinner dolphin population demography in Hawai’i using dronesWritten by Fabien Vivier In September 2021, we conducted boat-based surveys off the Kona coastline in search of spinner dolphins...
MMRPOct 1, 20213 minSpinner dolphins on tourWritten by Claire Lacey This work is a collaboration with NOAA / PIFSC Regular readers may remember from a previous blog post - Counting...
MMRPJun 10, 20215 minTrue Life: I'm a Fieldwork FanaticWritten by Liah McPherson Well, the first semester of my master’s degree was fairly routine: taking classes, reading papers, and getting...
MMRPJun 4, 20213 minCounting dolphinsWritten by Claire Lacey Exciting times here at “spinner dolphin project HQ”, as we make final preparations to get our dolphin surveys...
MMRPMar 1, 20214 minA dose of vitamin seaWritten by Claire Lacey In the early days of the pandemic, I wrote a blog entry for the UK Chartered Institute of Ecology and...
MMRPSep 8, 20203 minHello from your token overzealous new graduate student!Written by Liah McPherson Studying dolphins has always been my life’s goal. Truly, I cannot remember a time in my life when I wasn’t...
MMRPAug 13, 20204 minNew publication: Cashing in on spinner dolphinsWritten by Lars Bejder We are pleased to announce the following publication by Dr Carlie Wiener and co-authors in Frontiers in Marine...
MMRPOct 14, 20193 minTaking time to learn, reboot, refresh and refocus at the MMRPWritten by Guido Parra After almost 13 years post my PhD and working hard to climb up the academic food chain, I decided it was time to...
MMRPFeb 8, 20192 minDrone calibration flightsWritten by Fabien Vivier As part of our collaborative project with NOAA PIFSC, JIMAR and Sea Life Park entitled "Calibrating UAS...
MMRPNov 29, 20182 minUsing drone photogrammetry to assess demographic parameters in small delphinid populationsWritten by Fabien Vivier Last month (Oct 2018) we visited the Pacific Whale Foundation on Maui to initiate our project focusing on...