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Protected Resources Division
Southwest Fisheries Science Center
8901 La Jolla Shores Drive
La Jolla, CA 92037-1508
Phone: (858) 546-7101
Fax: (858) 546-5653

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3/25/2013

New Study Analyzes the Risk to Endangered Whales from Ship Traffic off Southern California

Researchers have identified areas off southern California with high numbers of whales and assessed their risk from potentially deadly collisions with commercial ship traffic in a studyreleased today in the scientific journal Conservation Biology. Scientists

3/8/2013

Scientists Use Aerial Drones to Study Sperm Whales Up Close

New Technology Enables Safe, Non Invasive Methods for Monitoring the Health and Physiology of Large whales. There’s a lot you can tell about a whale from the air. Looking at a straight down photo, scientists

1/26/2013

Satellite Tracking of Marine Mammals in the Antarctic

Scientists from the Protected Resources Division have successfully deployed satellite tags on killer whales and minke whales in the Antarctic and are currently tracking their locations. Satellite Tracking of Marine Mammals in McMurdo Sound Robert Pitman and John Durban recently

1/14/2013

Aerial Photos Give Perspective on Gray Whales

Whale researchers are taking to the sky to study the gray whale migration that is currently underway off the coast of California. The whale research team is conducting aerial surveys from an airplane to capture photographs of the gray whales

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