Laura Mannocci, who has just completed a contract as a postdoctoral associate at Duke University’s Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, joined the team as a participant in Sardinia. Mainly office based in recent years, working on a cetacean density modelling project for the Mediterranean Sea, she is pleased to be offshore now, taking part in collecting… Continue Reading
Souad Lamouti, a researcher from the Algerian National Research Center for the Development of Fisheries and Aquaculture (Centre National de Recherche pour le de Développement de la Pèche et de l’Aquaculture (CNRDPA) and four of her colleagues joined the Song of the Whale team in Malaga. Souad describes their time on board…. Every researcher in… Continue Reading
Our team of ten departed Vilamoura, Portugal on 28 May for a 3-month visual and acoustic survey of the Mediterranean Sea. The Song of the Whale is one of several vessels undertaking the most comprehensive ‘snap-shot’ cetacean survey ever conducted of the Mediterranean Sea, the ACCOBAMS Survey Initiative (ASI). This project aims to estimate the… Continue Reading
The first comprehensive whale and dolphin survey of the whole Mediterranean Sea begins this week, with a launch event hosted by the IUCN in Malaga on World Ocean’s Day, 8th June. The Mediterranean and Black Seas are home to 12 regularly reported species of whales and dolphins; human pressures on these semi-enclosed seas are intense,… Continue Reading
Day 54 May 11 We woke this morning to a grey day. Both the clouds and the sky seemed to be in black and white with little colour. This seemed to fit the mood of the boat today. We were all a bit subdued, still catching up on sleep from our shore leave it seems. … Continue Reading