Return to the Long Eddy!
Great news! The National Geographic Society is going to fund a short field season studying the foraging ecology of fin whales in the Long Eddy, an island wake system in the Bay of Fundy. This is a...
View ArticleIn the Long Eddy…
We’ve embarked on our field season in the Bay of Fundy, seeking to tag fin whales as they exploit prey aggregations in an island wake system on the northern tip of Grand Manan Island. [photo...
View ArticleThe shakedown
We’re up here in the Bay of Fundy to collect data for my dissertation research project. My advisor, Dave Johnston, conducted his dissertation research in the same location 10 or so years ago and we are...
View ArticlePost-Irene. Back on the water…
The field team was able to get back out on the water today after the post-tropical storm formerly known as Hurricane Irene blew threw eastern Canada. Amazingly, the seas laid down from storm...
View ArticleTag On!
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View ArticleA great day for research?
Today we sailed out to the Long Eddy and were greeted by unnaturally glassy and smooth seas, warm temperatures, and a clear blue sky. Sounds like a great day for research, doesn’t it? Hah! Let’s hear...
View ArticleYou never forget your first (…whale)
I swear I looked down the long length of our 25-foot tag pole for what felt like minutes. The delicately positioned DTAG had disappeared from the end of the pole and the fin whale we had been chasing...
View ArticleThe Long Eddy: Sustenance, Scenery and Science
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View ArticleJust another day of fieldwork in the Long Eddy….
The weather was great from Tuesday through Friday, calm seas, light wind, and sun, but then took a turn for the worse to more typical Grand Manan weather…wind and fog. It was blowing a good 25 knots...
View ArticleLong Eddy finished, for now…
I’m finally back at the Duke Marine lab, after a series of adventures in Massachusetts that don’t really need dwelling on. It’s great to be back – seeing family, friends and getting on with things that...
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