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How do marine mammals make decisions about diving?
PhD candidate Rhea Storlund decided to take an unconventional approach to understand how marine mammals dive by asking human breath-hold divers about the decisions they make.
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Grey Whales — the other Pacific Northwest resident whale
Grey whales face many threats ranging from entanglements and ship strikes, to loss of habitat and reduced prey availability. Researchers are collecting data this summer needed to quantify and mitigate these threats.
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It’s Been Two Years!
Last week graduate students from the Marine Mammal Research Unit attended their first in-person conferences in two years!
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Decoding the secret lives of killer whales one micro-second at a time
Long gone are the days when a biologist could analyze a set of behavioural data by hand. Advancements in technology have put an end to that. Fortunately, teams of statisticians are coming to the rescue.
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SWIMMING WITH THE POD
For the past two weeks, UBC Researchers led by Dr. Andrew Trites have been studying the feeding behaviours of northern resident killer whales.
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GO WALRUS GO!
Dr. David Rosen, an Assistant Professor at UBC’s Marine Mammal Research Unit, has often contended that walrus should be the…
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Struggle in the Strait
Is seal predation driving salmon declines in the Strait of Georgia? To many people, the sight of a harbor seal…
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Into the Field
Bowhead rubbing Sometimes the coolest things happen, when you least expect it. These four bowhead whales…
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Marine Mammal Research Newsletter – March 2018 – Issue 17
Into the Field Bowhead rubbing Sometimes the coolest things happen, when you least expect it. <see full story> From the…
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25th Annual B.C. MARINE MAMMAL SYMPOSIUM
Watch the Symposium from November 25, 2017: https://youtu.be/KtoEaTNkAfY Join us for presentations as well as discussion on issues that concern…
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Dietary Dilemma
Which prey offer the greatest energetic return? In the remote reaches of the Bering Sea, the Pribilof Islands were once…
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High-Tech Tracking in the Bering Sea
Electronic tags reveal secrets of foraging fur seals Northern fur seals in the eastern Bering Sea spend most of their…
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Evolution of a Hunter
Do feeding strategies drive resilience? Many thousands of years ago, the ancient ancestors of today’s seals and sea lions moved…
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